{"id":21485,"date":"2014-08-28T23:30:54","date_gmt":"2014-08-28T22:30:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.jacksonsart.com\/blog\/?p=21485"},"modified":"2020-06-15T13:54:48","modified_gmt":"2020-06-15T12:54:48","slug":"wide-variety-pastel-papers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.jacksonsart.com\/blog\/2014\/08\/28\/wide-variety-pastel-papers\/","title":{"rendered":"The Wide Variety of Pastel Papers"},"content":{"rendered":"

Surfaces for painting on with soft pastels, hard pastels or pastel pencils require a bit of tooth for the pastel pigment to adhere to. So while pastel papers will come in a variety of surfaces, there will always be some amount of texture. It can be a softer texture like the laid surface of fine stationery where it is just a bit of a grid indented in the paper (this is called Ingres paper), or have a bit more uneven, dimpled texture similar to rough watercolour paper or a honeycomb grid of dimples. Further along the texture scale brings you to the fluffy velour surface, then to gritty surfaces of ground cork and very fine velvety sand, and finally to the grittiest sandy surfaces similar to rough sandpaper (but on archival paper with waterproof glue). Having more tooth on the surface allows more pastel colour to be built up, with the most textured papers allowing more than 30 layers of pastel to adhere.<\/big><\/p>\n

Pastel Papers<\/h1>\n

At Jackson’s Art Supplies we currently stock 18 varieties of pastel paper.
\nThey can be grouped into three basic types: toothy, Ingres and dimpled.
\nSee the key to the sample sheets at the bottom of the article.<\/p>\n

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Toothy Surface on Card<\/h5>\n

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