Watercolor - Pastel

The watercolor – pastel – paper category includes many forms of painting. 

Pastel is a stick paint composed of pure pigments and sometimes erasers. There are two types, a dry pastel and an oil pastel .

With different uses, each has specific characteristics. Thanks to its texture and bright colors, oil pastel is used for expressive painting. It allows you to translate the energy of movement and gives depth.

Dry pastel does not require solvent. Without a binder, the color is not modified by light refraction and avoids the risk of yellowing. The colors are softer and match the drawing.

Watercolor appeared in Europe in the 15th century, and became a genre in its own right around the second half of the 18th century.
Using transparent pigments, diluted with water, watercolor is most often applied to white paper .

Indian ink has a permanent effect. The pencil line can be erased, but when the ink has penetrated into the fiber of the paper, the effect is permanent. The artists play with the depth of the patterns in superimposed layers. They create evanescent universes.