I promised you I would tell you my very favorite brand and I’ve tried quite a bit. They can use it outside on the sidewalks, but you definitely need to kick it to the curb and get it out of your art room. So, look at your oil … Excuse me, your chalk pastel stash, and if you have a lot of chalk pastel that is very light in weight and color, you might want to consider donating that to a classroom teacher. I know you know what pigment is, but what can I say, habits, they’re hard to break. It has nothing to do with pigs and I only say that because that’s just something I say to my students every single time I say the word pigment. Pigment, as you know, is another word for color baby, color. What you instead want is a brand of chalk that’s a little bit heavier because what that means is it’s mostly filled with pigment. If you’ve ever picked up a piece of chalk and not only is it very light, super pastelly in color, but feels very lightweight, then you know that what you’re using, or your students are using, is mostly made of filler. Perhaps left over from the art teacher, like what was in my stash, is mostly made of filler and you can tell right away a good brand of chalk versus a yuck-o brand. Now, like I said most chalk, at least the student grade, student quality chalk that you might have in your art room. This is Everyday Art Room and I’m Cassie Stephens. So I’m going to share that with you today. I have discovered the best chalk pastel for my students to work with as well as some of my most favorite projects. And if you’re like that too, if you are an art teacher who’s not a fan of chalk pastel, well, let me tell you, today I’m about to change your mind. In fact, it’s making my hands sweat just to think about it. Y’all, it was like sidewalk chalk and the moment I put the chalk to paper, nails on a chalkboard quality. The colors were so vibrant and they blended so beautifully.Īs you can imagine, my disappointment when I became an art teacher and discovered the chalk pastel that were in my art room. It was the first time that I’d had the chance to work with it. I loved my work and I really loved chalk pastel. It was a chalk pastel project that we working on of an abstract cityscape and I was in love. Do you all remember that one art project that you worked on growing up where when you were working on it, or maybe when you were finished, you were just like, yeah, this is what I want to be doing for the rest of my life? For me, I remember it like it was yesterday.