My recent pastel workshop reinforced the importance of knowing the value range ot the stick of pastel I am working with. So I set myself the task of grouping my collection of pastels by colors, and temperature, then sorting them again by value.
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| A photo of some mid tone sienna color chips against the gray scale. |
It's easy to do with the dark and light ends of the spectrum, but mid values get a little trick. I wound up making a color chip of each pastel stick, then visually ranking the color chips, then photographing the chips against a set of known value gray scale sheets.
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| I used photoshop to remove the color saturation so I could view it in gray tones |
A week later I have a well sorted set of 700 pastel sticks arranged and labeled by brand, #, color, and value. And I have a set of color chips with the same information just in case I loose the label and need to figure out where a stick of color belongs.
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| This is only a portion of my set. |
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