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Dry pastels, which I now refer to as dusties in contrast to oil pastels, were my first "real" art medium. The summer I was seven, I found a basic set of 12 semi-hard pastels that my mother had used for a college elective course tucked into the closet of her old bedroom. Immediately excited, I quickly used almost all of them by painting a beach sunset, complete with a palm tree. I took the picture and pastels down to show my grandmother, and my mother said that was probably the first time those pastels had been used to make something pretty and that the set was now mine.
From time to time, I feel a need to return to my dusties as a way to reconnect to the uninhibited creativity of my childhood.
