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What fixatives won’t fade my drawing?
I sprayed several layers of fixative on a pastel drawing, and the colors faded. What brand of both workable fixative and final fixative do you recommend for protecting charcoal, pastel, colored pencil, and pencil drawings without fading or changing the artwork?
I’m looking at Krylon and Prismacolor Fixatives at the moment… they’re on sale, but I don’t want to buy them if they’ll mess up my work.
Fading occurred right after spraying it with a few layers of fixative.
Did the colors faded at the moment of aplying the spray or muchmore later? Do not overspray; don’t use cheap pastels.
Pastel color can fade not because the fixative used but because of the pigment used. Not all pigtments have the same ligthfastness (UV Sun light resistance), even indirect light can fade art work done with poorly pigmented ink. Use hight quality art materials and fixatives with UV protectant, and “acid free”. No fixative is 100% color safe, so don’t over spray. And the acid materials on them can damage paper on the long termn (acid darken and eat paper over years).
But even better, forget about pastel, color pencils, and water colors if you want long lasting art. No matter what you do they’ll always fade. Besides those spray fixatives are toxics and get into your lungs and they stick there forever.
Carbon and graphite pencils are fade resistants, because they are minerals.
Hight quality acrilic and oil paints are the most fade resitants art materials right now.
I did some pastel at school but I hated it when I saw that all my effort was going to waste; pastel is not very permanent.
