Art Alternatives Pastels Earth Tones Review

This is a great economical alternative to weathering powders. I grind the colored pencils into a powder and apply it with brushes.

I love these crayons because they are only used for my ceramic wildlife figurines. I can mix my colors and bring my wildlife so close to real life. Nothing else fits together perfectly. Earth tones give you additional browns and yellows to mix and match with many of our wild colors like pronghorn, mountain lion and even our cotton.

I was happy to find these earth tones because we are using earth tones for a lesson that shows the different skin tones of the students in the classroom. These pastels worked well, but they were very dusty and left huge twilight clouds in our classroom. The dust settled on the children's pictures and changed the colors they wanted to use. When I was modeling with pastel on the board, large clouds of dust fell off and painted over my picture where I didn't want it. You can see it in the photo…