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Mocha, Mocha, Mocha
I forgot to include Great Americans Mocha on the list, I just added it.
Choosing, what I think, is a limited pastel palette, is a real Solomon's choice. there are favorites that I left off but I was trying to make this list as affordable as possible.
In the 18th century, the height of pastel portraiture, more cross-hatching and optical mixing had to be employed as they did not have the vast array of pastels available today. You can create form and color much more easily today, by picking the right color, rather than cross-hatching or blending, if you choose to do so.
This is an interesting quote I have from "Portraits, 5000 Years, by John Walker, Abrams publisher.
"The pastel as a medium aroused the jealousy of artists who painted in oil. By it's lighter tonality, it's bright sparkling color, a pastel will often "kill" the effect of an oil painting when hung on the same wall. Since in a salon exhibition the primary object of each artist is to make his work "tell" the too exclusive success of the pastellists let the Academy in 1749 to refuse them admission. Perroneau, therefore, painted his reception piece in oil and was thus forced to work in both mediums as was Liotard.
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