In the spirit of "everything old is new again", I've pulled some of my pastel drawings from a while back and have made them into ACEO sized prints.
There for a while I was really into pastels, and actually thought that's all I'd ever do for the rest of my life. Then too much inhaled pastel dust plus worn down fingerprints from smudging my fingers into the sanded pastel paper made me take a break.
Another thing is that they're hard to store safely without smearing them (unless you have museum quality storing capabilities, or at least really good flat files and are extremely careful. I can't answer "yes" to either of those questions, so I don't do them anymore.
I did a lot of shoes. A lot.
(These are Kenneth Coles.)
And my teapots and white china (which were fun to do using a lot of color). 
A lot of these pieces were BIG, like on a whole sheet of illustration board. Some are smaller, and done on sanded pastel paper or heavily textured handmade papers. Some were done on Canson.
Mostly all of them were done with Rembrandt pastels. And some charcoal.
I'm putting them all in my paulapaula etsy shop, and will keep adding pieces as I get them printed out and ready to go. Its fun to look at something other than Christmas cards, don't you think?
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By: Paula Pertile,
on 1/3/2009
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By: Paula Pertile,
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Gorgeous pastel work Paula!! I have a question: How are you turning them into ACEOs? You mention that the originals are large so are you able to scan them and if so, do they scan okay (what with the pastel coming off easily and all)??
Hey, thanks Teresa!
I actually have transparencies or photos I shot of all these a while back. I conveniently skipped that step in explaining the "making prints" part, sorry. So no, I don't have a really really really really really big scanner! ha ha
Mmmmm. Shoes..... *Pastel* shoes....