Pastels - out of business?

[Morris Darby]

Mike, I am glad you posted this. In my mind I play this scenario over and over. First, I bought a nice set of portrait pastels (many shades of brown, pinks, greys, etc.) Then the backgrounds got more complicated as I offered more choices, so I had to buy more colors-AND THE COLORS NEVER END. I can mix colors with oils and use only eight max on my pallet, but very rarely can mix colors with pastels.

Now, I feel I still have an incomplete set of pastels...have spent more on them than all my other supplies put together and get maybe two pastel commissions a year.

Also, the host of the life-drawing group I go to cringes when I walk in with pastels because of the dust.

Hmm...