Pastels

Getting old means too much stuff. I couldn't think of anything I really wanted for Christmas...other than winning the lotto...yeah right! Anyway I saw an ad for Mount Vision pastels at a wonderful sales price. Less than half of list and and lots less than most discount offers. So asked my husband for the amount to get them. I was so excited when they got here. I love mail order...but it also means waiting for stuff. When I took them out of the boxes to look at them...all 350 of them...I spread them still in their foam packing accross my desk. I wanted to look at them and get familiar with the colors. Mount Vision is a soft pastel and the sticks are a little larger than most pastels. I bought them on faith. I've found that I like the softer pastels to work with.

Last year I bought a set of Sennelier Soft Pastels half sticks. The set was on sale but still expensive. They are really nice to work. I've been taking these to my pastel classes. No way could I get a full set. I did buy a few open stock Sennelier pastels and found one was pretty much crushed to powder and two sticks were gritty. Then I bought a set of Rembrant pastels. These are a little harder than I like to use but a very nice set.

My new Mount Vision pastels remained on my desk for several days. One day I came into the room and my big black cat was curled up asleep right on top of the pastels. Urf! Good thing the foam protected them from the 20 pound cat! So I decided to buy some pastel storage boxes for them. This is a good time for getting stuff on sale. they were sixty percent off reg price. Now my new pastels are safe ready for me to start messing them up.