By Marion Boddy-Evans, About.com
A box of pastels
Pastels are sticks of ground pigment mixed with chalk and gum or oil. This is shaped into drawing sticks. Pastels cannot be mixed on a palette like paints, but are mixed on the paper by overlaying or blending. Conté crayons are a square type of pastel.
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