Sandpaper X Soft Pastel - Pencils & Sticks - 2

Is it possible to paint on Sandpaper? According to an art book it is and there are many different types of paper you can use. This means those promoting Pastelmat as the one are wrong. What they used, with success, in the past will work today as well.

Read my earlier post about sandpaper x soft pastels.

I had a small piece of diner sandpaper (400 instead of 120). It was even used. I decided to try out first since my fingertips are still wounded.

This pelican is made with soft pastel pencils only. I didn't use anything to blend except for the next pencil.

The result is positive.

• There's hardly any dust.
• The pastel didn't come off as I lifted the paper.
• I can use a soft pastel sponge
• I can blend with my finger

Materials used: charcoal pencil - hard, white, yellow and orange soft pastel pencil (Conté à Paris + EP, hairspray (if you ask me no need to.

Note: The dark spots on the background are the used parts of the sandpaper.

I decided to make a second one. This time I used the soft pastel sticks instead of the pencils. Great is that many layers can be added.

If it comes to the first sandpaper drawing I didn't finish it yet. I must say the hairspray made it look better. The colours are deeper (darker). I will see if it is possible to add more colour using the layer of hairspray.

Although I visited the art shop today I didn't buy fixation. Why not? Because officially, there's no need to use it on a finished painting. It the pastel X paper works all that's needed is a frame to protect it against water and dust.

_{Materials: Sandpaper (400) size about 10 * 5 cm, Rembrandt soft pastel sticks , Conté à Paris and EP
soft pastel pencils, charcoal pencil - hard (better do not use it).
13-6-2026}