SpectraFix SFX-31270 Fixative Spray, milk casein, Not Assigned, 12 oz Bottle

It's so far the best I got for dry medium.. loved it .

Spectrafix is completely non-toxic, and I have very serious health issues that cause me to be extremely sensitivities to all chemicals. So I was excited to purchase this as a fixative for my charcoal and pastel drawings. After much trail and error, I realized that the best way to use this is in many very light layers, letting each layer dry about 10 - 15 minutes between each one. This works best with thin drawings, but if you keep building and building layers of this spray it will eventually work. At least for me, with my type of artwork. I usually do mixed media with lots of texture and such. I have not noticed large droplet marks (spray the art piece on the wall, not laying flat down, and you will get fewer droplet marks) but again, I tend to have lots of texture to begin with. I use this over graphite drawings as well when I do not want to them to smudge. This has never changed the color of my artwork, like the chemical sprays do!!! BIG huge bonus there as a professional and finicky artist. This takes more time than the heavy duty chemical-filled sprays, but this will not make you ill from using it! This is natural and has actually been used for hundreds of years. I don't think that any charcoal / pastel adhesives actually make charcoal / pastel completely smudge free without intense layers. Another great tip with this is to use it AS you create your art layers, not just on top of the final art piece! That helps a TON!! ...Good luck friends. Be patient, and use the best products for your beautiful creations!!

Works well on pastel ,

La mejor alternativa para evitar los aerosoles y fijar los trabajos al pastel. Afecta levemente los colores al igual que todos los fijadores en aerosol con la ventaja que no respirarás gases nocivos. El precio es elevado a comparación de un aerosol convencional o igual precio que un aerosol de marca muy reconocida pero creo que el hecho que puedas cuidar tu salud usando este fijador que no es tóxico justifica el precio.

A really great way to fix watercolor and pencil drawings and not toxic like other aerosol sprays.

It will fix your artwork but you pay the price of having the looks of your artworks altered. You will have a shiny layer of gloss over your artwork. I used this on my oil pastels and as you can imagine it's Oil pastel so the liquid will stay on top of the artwork it will never combine or be absorbed into the artwork. It will just sit on top till it can dry which will take forever. You may not notice as HUGE of a problem if your artwork is pencil on paper or a different type of medium but on OIL PASTEL you will have problems using this fixative. The spray nozzle is SO SO bad that it leaves HUGE droplets of different sizes on your work. It literally is like a showerhead style spray. Since oil pastel has a slippery surface some droplets will gather together and form literal tiny puddles. You will have sections with puddles, sections with large or small uneven droplets and or sections with nothing. It's a total disaster. It will also take forever to dry and using hairdryer will dry it quicker but you risk blowing the droplets together into a puddle just total disaster. You also get droplet water marks on your artwork. This spray is seriously a mission impossible. You will be spraying away 5% of the bottle trying to get the whole artwork covered. waiting forever trying to spray it a 2nd time 3rd time. It's terrible. I have ruined 2 artwork trying to use this fixative and I conclude you cannot use it on oil pastel artwork. You have to buy a different bottle to put this solution in or it will never work. So be prepared to invest in a different/better spray bottle that can do ultra fine mist if you're going to use this product. Or it will totally fail you.