{"id":3325,"date":"2012-01-04T07:00:39","date_gmt":"2012-01-04T06:00:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.pastellbilder.de\/?p=3325"},"modified":"2014-01-19T12:46:08","modified_gmt":"2014-01-19T11:46:08","slug":"making-pastels-1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.pastellbilder.de\/en\/2012\/01\/04\/making-pastels-1\/","title":{"rendered":"Making Pastels"},"content":{"rendered":"For quite a while I have been curious about the pastel making process and how to make my own ones. A blog post by the American pastel artist <a class=\"external\" title=\"making pastels\" href=\"http:\/\/www.pastelsblog.blogspot.com\/\">Casey Klahn<\/a> gave the last impulse. I had so many left overs, the broken bits of pastel sticks and didn&#8217;t know what to do with them. Throwing them away seemed to be such a waste.<\/p>\n<p><img class=\"ngg-singlepic ngg-center aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/www.pastellbilder.de\/wp-content\/gallery\/blog\/20120102-pastellherstellung-1.jpg\" alt=\"Pastels (1)\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">\u00a9 Marc Volquardsen, 2012<\/p>\n<p>In the first step I ground the left overs thouroughly. If you have many pieces do this more often or otherwise your pastel paste isn&#8217;t homogeneous enough und you might enclose tiny bits of\u00a0 differnt colours. In this picture I used a mortar which unfortunately took on the pigment and won&#8217;t be of any use for another colour shade except blue. I would advise to use a mortar made out of glas combined with a glas bowl.<\/p>\n<p><img class=\"ngg-singlepic ngg-center aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/www.pastellbilder.de\/wp-content\/gallery\/blog\/20120102-pastellherstellung-2.jpg\" alt=\"Pastels (2)\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">\u00a9 Marc Volquardsen, 2012<\/p>\n<p>In the next step I add destilled water to the pigment with a spray bottle\u00a0. The destilled water is important because otherwise you might risk adding germs to the pastel paste which could cause mould.<br \/>\nNo additional binders or other bodies are needed in this process, because the pastel left overs have already binder in them.<br \/>\nFor healthy reasons please make sure that you wear a mask during the whole process.<\/p>\n<p><img class=\"ngg-singlepic ngg-center aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/www.pastellbilder.de\/wp-content\/gallery\/blog\/20120102-pastellherstellung-3.jpg\" alt=\"Pastels (3)\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">\u00a9 Marc Volquardsen, 2012<\/p>\n<p>At this point you could halving the paste and add white pigment to achieve a set of\u00a0 different values. Don&#8217;t fall in love with the colour you made from the left overs, because it will be very hard to reproduce.<\/p>\n<p><img class=\"ngg-singlepic ngg-center aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/www.pastellbilder.de\/wp-content\/gallery\/blog\/20120102-pastellherstellung-4.jpg\" alt=\"Pastels (4)\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">\u00a9 Marc Volquardsen, 2012<\/p>\n<p>Now, you can roll the paste till you have a stick. Luckely my father build a wooden box for me in which I fill the paste and let it rest for a day. After that the pastel sticks easily get out. Let the pastel sticks rest\u00a0 for another 6 days until they are completely dry.<br \/>\n<img class=\"ngg-singlepic ngg-center aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/www.pastellbilder.de\/wp-content\/gallery\/blog\/20120103-pastellherstellung-5.jpg\" alt=\"Pastels (5)\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">\u00a9 Marc Volquardsen, 2012<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For quite a while I have been curious about the pastel making process and how to make my own ones. A blog post by the American pastel artist Casey Klahn gave the last impulse. I had so many left overs, &hellip; <a class=\"kt-excerpt-readmore\" href=\"https:\/\/www.pastellbilder.de\/en\/2012\/01\/04\/making-pastels-1\/\" aria-label=\"Making Pastels\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":6492,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[117,326],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pastellbilder.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3325"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pastellbilder.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pastellbilder.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pastellbilder.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pastellbilder.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3325"}],"version-history":[{"count":31,"href":"https:\/\/www.pastellbilder.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3325\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6493,"href":"https:\/\/www.pastellbilder.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3325\/revisions\/6493"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pastellbilder.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6492"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pastellbilder.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3325"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pastellbilder.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3325"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pastellbilder.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3325"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}