Sandpaper Drawing
It's still rainy and cool this morning but it's not so cold as to be snow. We know that April is supposed to bring rain but snow is something that belongs to March, not April.
I'm still thinking about the art show and things that happened. The woman who did the demonstration on using pastel told us that ordinary sandpaper can be used as drawing paper for pastels. It reminded me of my experience.
I had read that sandpaper could be used and it should be a really fine grain sandpaper. I wanted to try it out. One of my sons and his wife and I walked to an auto store near here to buy sandpaper. It was the closest store that would have sandpaper. They had it, of course, to be used to sand rust away from metal before painting. The salesman came to help me and I wanted to see the finest sandpaper. When we established the fact that it was the finest grained sandpaper that they carried, I asked him if it came in a different color. I hadn't told him that I wanted it to draw on, so he was really jolted that I would ask for a different color. What difference would the color of the paper make when you're sanding rust away? And, no! He didn't have it in a different color.
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