The correct answer is: Pastel colors allow the artist to focus more on broad areas of color. Explanation: Pastels are basically powder pigment combined with a binder resulting in a pastel stick.

What is true about pastel colors?

Pastels or pastel colors belong to a pale family of colors, which, when described in the HSV color space, have high value and low saturation. The name comes from pastels, art media characteristic of this color family. The colors of this family are usually described as "soothing."

What is in pastels?

Pastel, dry drawing medium executed with fragile, finger-size sticks. These drawing crayons, called pastels, are made of powdered pigments combined with a minimum of nongreasy binder, usually gum tragacanth or, from the mid-20th century, methyl cellulose.