TO FIX PASTELS.

Dominion, Volume 5, Issue 1310, 13 December 1911, Page 4

TO FIX PASTELS.

A NEW PEOCESS. A lecture on -the gelatine pastel process was delivered belorc the Wellington Arts Club on Holiday evening, by Mr. \V. H. Carter, juu., of "Wellington, the patentee of the process. A large•number of pastel paintings and beautiful paslellised art photographs, covering a wide field of effect and subject, were exhibited to show the efficacy of the. new process. Under this process, pastel colours are absolutely fixed and rendered "unrubbable," without the aid of spray or spurting apparatus of any kind whatever. The fixative, in jolly form, is placed in boiling water'in Hie proportions' ihentioned on tho jar containing it, and is kept at boiling, point, for a quarter of an hour, to dissolve it tlwouchly. Tho resultant solution is then d.iluted to.a pint by the addition of cold water, talcing care that tho solution is never below blood heal, and is then poured across the face of tho pastel painted surface which it is desired to fix. A large and very clever pastel drawing by Mrs. Hannah, of 'H'ellinrtmi, was successfully 1 treated by Mr. Carter before tho audience, and is now to be 'eon in Mr. Butler's Studio on Lainbton Quav. Mr. Carter's process is also applicable to charcoal drawings.