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My Experience with UART Pastel Paper, Part 2

Graciela Bombalova Saturday May 3rd, 2025 Leave a comment

For decades, I have worked with Canson Mi-Teintes pastel paper — a surface I know inside and out. This post is about my Experience with UART Pastel Paper, while working on a special family Pastel portrait featuring four full figures together, Mother with her sons. A big size Soft Pastel portrait painting of a family.

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My Experience with UART Pastel Paper, part 1

Graciela Bombalova Saturday May 3rd, 2025 Leave a comment

Recently, I embarked on a very special project: a family pastel portrait featuring four full figures together — a mother with her sons.
The composition required a lot of space — much more than the large Canson paper I usually work with (29 × 43 inches). Since that wasn’t big enough, I decided to finally try the famous UART Pastel Paper in a roll.

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Oil portrait painting of a child

Graciela Bombalova Thursday October 14th, 2021

It’s been a long time since I posted on my blog for the last time… I had a busy summer, working on my orders and cooperating for the development of the first soft pastel handmade brand, in Spain. The Mamut pastels. This makes me proud and happy because the pastels are really special and already […]

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