PanPastel.... answer to the knocking of your soul

Years and years ago I bought some chalks to use on my scrapbookpages. I never really liked them and didn't use them much, just to color edges and maybe for some stenceling. I still have a box with 9 colors and it looks brand new. So when some of my friends started posting on their blogs about PanPastel and how excited they were about them I thought that they would be just like those chalks and not something for me to use.

Boy, was I wrong! They told me enthusiastic stories about PanPastel and said I had to try them, that I would LOVE them and that once I used them I would want to have them all... they were right!

So here is my first try on PanPastel and YESI LOVE them, and YES I want all the colors now :)

I fist covered a piece of cardstock with book paper and covered it with Gesso. Then I stamped text and images with black Stazon and added a thin layer of Gesso on top of that.

I sprayed at the top of the page with Glimmer Mist (Dragonfly and Key Lime Pie) and let the paint run down. After the paint was dry I added a tissue paper cirkel that was sprayed with Harvest Orange. I used Gel Medium to do that so the sprayed color smeared a little around the edges of the circle and stamped the coffee stain on top. The dot's around the circle are made using Punchanella and distress ink. Then I started adding color using PanPastel. I filled in all the white spaces and also layerd color on top of the glimmer mist and the orange circle.

I randlomly stamped with a texture stamp and Versamark and added more PanPastel which created the darker green texture. The pink dots were made using a stencil and PanPastel. The leafs and the little butterflies were also colored with PanPastel. After adding some Gesso to the poppies I colored them with yellow PanPastel.

PanPastel Colors used: 580.5 Turquoise, 680.5 Bright Yellow green, 430.5 Magenta, 250.5 Diarylide Yellow, 100.5 Titanium White.

What a great product to work with. These pastels are so smooth and the colors so rich and deep. And the special tools made it so easy to use them whether I wanted to color a big area or just a tiny little spot. I could mix them, layer them and erase them. This was only my first try but my mind is spinnig with ideas. I want to try them on different surfaces and combine them with different mediums. I want to learn what else I can do with them. I want, I want, I want.... the only thing I need right now is a little bit of time! :)

Go to the PanPastel website for product information, colors and tutorial videos. Click here or on the PanPastel logo in my side bar.

Have fun and remember to answer to the knocking of your soul! ;)

Comments

[Riikka]

Stunning! I was blown away!

[Jessica]

Het ziet er geweldig uit. hoe heb je die leuke bloemen gemaakt?

[Romy]

Wauw, dat ziet er super uit! Nooit geweten dat je met chalk zoiets gaafs kunt maken:)

[Louisa Dubois]

Wat schitterend! Wil je heel erg bedanken voor je inspiratie. Door jou heb ik mij aangemeld voor de online-cursus acryl van Nathalie Kalbach.
De volgende workshop wordt vast PanPastels!

[donnadowney]

birgit this is stunning!!!

[sac prada]

C'est vraiment un grand morceau et d'information utile. Je suis heureux que vous partagiez cette information utile avec nous. S'il vous plaît nous tenir au courant de ce genre. Merci pour le partage.

[flash games]

Wat schitterend! Wil je heel erg bedanken voor je inspiratie. Door jou heb ik mij aangemeld voor de online-cursus acryl van Nathalie Kalbach.
De volgende workshop wordt vast PanPastels!
+1

[soso la vahine]

c'est trop joli, bravo !

[chaussures air max]

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[Amanda Kuykendall]

Birgit,
what are your flowers made of? It looks like canvas or some cotton fabric? Thanks- it is all amazing and very invigorating!!