I found a tin of pastel fixative in the draw of my desk and having never used fixative before I thought I'd give it a go.
Usually I like to use sandpaper type pastel paper as it grips pastel in such a way that unless I want to apply many layer or some very heavy layers I would not need to use fixative, however rumaging through my card stock I had some Canson Art Board which has a very smooth finish and a slightly corigated tooth much like Ingres Paper by smoother.
With the Canson I found that unless I used an underpainting, I couldn't achieve my layers. So I thought, what the heck, why not give this stuff a go with the Canson.
I'll post a pic of my results in my next blog post.
