Excellent topic suggestion!!! i will add that to the list. In the winter we are neighbors…I spend time in Colombia in North America winters, your summer.

Yes, me too, but occasionally my set just doesn’t have the gray that is best for the situation. And Im trying to help people just starting who have yet to acquire as many pastels as those of us who have been at it a while

The principles, if I understand your statement, are the same but for small areas a the tools must be modified to use smaller strikes or even pencils might be required if a lot of detail is your aim. At such small sizes, strokes side by side with no bleeding would still result in a gray

Tell me more, maybe you are referring to a combination of marks that visually our minds mix but up close they are just individual color? Like the principles of pointalism but with traditional mark making??

@@PastelWithAvon Thank you for your reply. Yes! You are correct. Many years ago I went to The Barnes Collection, when it was still in the suburbs. It was not my first visit so I was more focused. In a corner, at knee height. Was a Degas pastel painting of legs, only. It was so many colors! I’ve never forgotten it. Small contouring strokes of so many colors. The Collection was moved, in tact, to a permanent home on the Ben Franklin Parkway. We’re talking Philadelphia here. The paintings and other artifacts are exhibited in exactly the same way they were at the original location. Not so easy to see but with much better lighting. I wish I could revisit The Barnes in its better location. Alas, no longer possible for me. A special memory.