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Sharon,
I just read the article by Mr. Merrill (thanks for putting it up here) and was surprised to see that a conservator would immediately put a fixative on a pastel that came into their possession. I've heard other people say that their pastels were fixed by framers against their wishes. What are your thoughts on this? I've always thought we were not supposed to use fixatives and only rarely use a reworkable fixative by Grumbacher and now wonder if that's the one Mr. Merrill says NOT to use. The burnishing method makes sense to me and I'll definitely test that method, just because I'm curious. Do you use fixative?
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