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Text and images from the slides presented by Jo Crook at the talk given by Rosie Freemantle and Jo Crook, Royal Academy, London, in November 2015.
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soft pastels
Jo Crook
Royal Academy, London
20 November 2015
www.jocrook.co.uk
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dry media
- oil pastel, charcoal, pencil, conté, sanguine - natural chalks
pastel types
- hard pastel or conté crayon
- oil pastel and oil stick
- pastel pencil
- water-soluble pastel
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composition of soft pastels
- pigments
- binders: gum tragacanth, gum arabic, methylcellulose, water
- fillers: china clay, chalk, talc
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red lake fade
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tinted (white) colour, toned (dark) colour
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nine tones
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blending by layering, further blending with finger
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broad stroke
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stippling, further blending with finger | 
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scumble | 
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cross-hatch, blended strokes | 
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hatch blend
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coloured pastel papers
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flocked paper
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