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Pastel Dry
A powdered pigment, mixed with a binding
material (glue, gum arabic, plaster of Paris), rolled into sticks,
and dried. The synthetics are more consistent in quality than
natural chalks, and come in an almost limitless range and variety
of colour and degree of softness. There is no real distinction
between synthetic chalks and pastels, though the latter term is
used to designate the brilliantly coloured, soft, dry sticks used
in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries.
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