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I can pull out very fine detail or wonderfully fine lines by working my kneaded eraser into a point.

That's all folks. Thanks for your patience.

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Question: Do you sharpen your pastel stick with an exacto knife first to get that sharp edge? Is the painting shown done with only one color? Can you show a detail of line quality?

A nice new square ended stick of Nupastel has four sharp edges. I rarely take an exacto knife to a stick.

I probably did the standing figure with at least three diffent colors.

Given the limitations of photography, I'd have to take a closeup shot of a drawing with my digital camera to show you satisfactory detail. Meanwhile this fairly large sized detail, scanned from a 4x5" transparency, will have to do.

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Question: Just wondering how long did it take to do that drawing? I do life drawings but it is usually quite fast from 1 minute to 20 minutes max.

They take several days.

Now that I'm older, EVERYTHING takes several days.