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When I want a fine line with pastel, I just wear the end of a stick flat, by scrubbing it on a scrap of paper. This gives a definitive edge that produces a very fine line. With round sticks I roll the edge around for wispy grasses etc. If I needed to represent whiskers I'd probably just go for it and drop them in as boldly as possible, using the edge. Although for this, the square pastels might be better as you can use the corners as a 'point'.
HTH
John :-D
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I am sure by now you'll all know I have just returned to watercolours after at least 7 years. I am really enjoying my return and experimenting.
Yesterday though, I went through my tube paints, as some lids had dried on so I had a happy hour or so dipping the lids in hot water to get them off, and of course I found a few had completely dried solid, W/N & D/R artist' quality ones.
Ok, some are going on for 20 years old but newer ones I bought perhaps 8-10 years ago have dried solid, no amount of hot water could make them softer?
I gave up and threw them away, so I am still using my St Pertersburg set I bought around 15 years ago, which are still very vibrant and moist.
What got me was it was the darker paints, the umbers, sienna's and sepia, that dried solidly?
Thing is, do you think I could have opened up and used the dried tube paints as pans, or would they have been unusable in that state?
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