Soft pastel is one of the most beautiful artistic mediums with fabulous colours and velvet surface that reached to us from the Renaissance time. It is a pure pigment with a small amount of gum Arabic (binder). Due to its smudging, artists were always worried for their artworks safety and protected them by glass. The German painter and art theorist Anton Raphael Mengs compared pastel artworks with flowers and butterflies in the gardens of art. Many art specialists attempted to find a perfect way to fix pastel on paper surface in order to make life of pastel pictures longer. Unfortunately, all fixatives invented till now changed its original range of colours and ruined its naturalcreaminess and fluffiness.
Nevertheless, history proved that pastels, preserved in proper conditions, don’t change their appearance for centuries. Pastel brilliant colours do not fade or yellow, painting surface does not crack like it happens to artworks painted by other mediums.