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  1. March 19th, 2023, 07:31 AM #1
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    Default Learning from mistakes.

    Mistakes can be valuable if we learn from them.

    I was trying out these Conté crayons a couple of days ago. I just wanted to see how they would work on this mixed media paper. It's a doodle, not a connected drawing, but I thought it looked fairly interesting anyway.



    After taking that picture, but before filing it away, I decided to spray it with some fixative so that it wouldn't rub off. I used Grumbacher final fixative, which I've used with charcoal drawings on different paper, and with which I never had a problem. Here's a scan of what happened this time.



    Live and learn. I hope.
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    Default Re: Learning from mistakes.

    Thank you for sharing the interesting drawing.

    Perhaps the xylene or acetone in the fixative dissolved something in the crayons / pastel pencils? The French word for pencil is crayon.

    The material data sheet for the pastel pencils doesn't provide much insight.
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