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This is all about learning how to salvage failed pastels.

Many artist do underpaintings by blocking in the painting then brushing it with water or alcohol.  But the brushing drives the pastel into the valleys if you are using sanded pastel paper so as an alternative start using a spray bottle as others may have without brushing.  This leaves a mottled under painting.

The next logical step is to take those failed paintings and prop them up in a sink and spray them.  UArt is tough enough to stand this treatment particular if you have some that Dakota Art has bonded to a back board.  The colors just explode and drip when you spray them and you can even spray your piece enough to wash off overly dark areas.  When you do this to a failed one and it all dries you have an underpainting that you can use to try again

When they build better mousetraps they just create smarter mice.