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Enhance and protect your artistic creations with SpectraFix Degas Spray Fixative! Crafted from a time-honored recipe used by the legendary Edgar Degas, this fixative combines casein, water, and alcohol to provide a safe and odorless solution for artists. It dries quickly to a hard, water- resistant, invisible matte finish without dulling the vibrancy of your colors. Ideal for use with a variety of media including pastels, colored pencils, and watercolors, it's also perfect for those sensitive to chemicals. May be used on all papers, sueded or gritted paper (not LaCarte), primed and unprimed canvas, wood panels, unglazed ceramic, stone, leather, glass, etc. Available in multiple sizes and bottles featuring different sprayers, SpectraFix delivers a natural, non-toxic fixative for any type of artwork. Whether you're a professional artist or a craft enthusiast, SpectraFix Degas provides the ultimate flexibility and protection for you without compromising on quality
Nicki Traikos
Reviewed in Canada on March 21, 2024
A really great way to fix watercolor and pencil drawings and not toxic like other aerosol sprays.
oases
Reviewed in Canada on March 16, 2024
Use to protect artwork and works great.
Mercer County hiker
Reviewed in the United States on February 19, 2024
I recommend this product to all my drawing students as it doesn’t have the dangerous organic vapors in it and does a pretty good job fixing charcoal and/or pencil drawings. HOWEVER, warning to all: the sprayer part does not impart a super fine mist so you must clean the nozzle often and make sure you spray from a distance, or else you may wind up damaging your drawing by causing drips or too much wetness. Otherwise, a fine product — just be careful with it.
Mr.G
Reviewed in the United Kingdom on September 3, 2023
Ive being using W&N fixative for sealing charcoal, its ok but cant use inside as the fumes are terrible. Found this, did all the reviews on line and it really works on charcoal. Spits a bit, but doesn't damage anything…. And its charcoal ok ! So if your looking to fix charcoal in your studio and be able to live long enough to see the results… this is the stuff !
Frannie Phalangie
Reviewed in the United States on February 20, 2023
I’ve had nothing but success using this with my soft pastels, and it’s non-toxic with no smell! After I spray it on, it looks like, uh oh, it’s darker now, but once dry (I use my craft dryer), it looks exactly like it did before I sprayed. The only difference is now there’s more ‘texture/tooth’, and I can keep working on my painting. A perfect workable fixative! I hope they never stop making it.
Helen
Reviewed in the United Kingdom on April 7, 2023
Completely odourless, a good size, and a fantastic way to protect my pastel drawings. Much more pleasant to use than other fixative. Didn’t damage or change my pastel painting, Completely invisible once dry, and can be used to fix every layer. What's not to love!
Angela Rexroad
Reviewed in the United States on July 19, 2022
The problems I have experienced while trying to archive my artwork had to do with toxicity of product and the smell. where could I spray the awful stuff?I found this product and all my problems were solved!It is made from all natural ingredients. It doesn’t smell bad at all and I can spray my work inside my house!This product provides a nice finish for my work. It looks great and works well! I will be purchasing this product from now on!
Troy, just troy.
Reviewed in the United States on October 7, 2022
This causes paper to crinkle up and not flatten out, spray is quite course no matter how well shaken and even one light spritz makes paper warp and curl, and it needs to be applied several times to get enough to actually fix the surface (Charcoal or graphite or pastels, etc). WAY more change to artwork from the amount of liquid this throws on drawing compared to aerosol.I honestly cannot thing of One Valid Reason any sane person would buy it. It's got all the downfalls of both no fixative and something like Modge Podge while leading people to believe with flowery blatant lies that it's safe and doesn't change anything "if used during entire creation process" -- which can't happen since once you spray it, the surface no longer accepts marks in the same way due to warring/clinks formed and some areas still having normal tooth with other areas having little tooth. It isn't worth $5, let alone $20.Using absolutely no fixative at all is a better option than this crap. Just put in a matted page frame in portfolio so pagers do not rub on each other. Or use the Aerosol workable fixative but with the added bonus of actually fixing work AND giving More tooth back to the paper instead of ruining whatever was left when used.
CO Artist
Reviewed in the United States on June 14, 2020
Non-toxic and perfect for studio use... this fixative spray can be used over and over while you are working on your pastel painting. (I use only soft pastels...never oil pastels.) Not an "end result spray fixative"... this is used while the work is in progress. No need to worry about ventilation in the studio... beyond what you'd normally be utilizing for pastel work. Sure beats running downstairs and out into the garage to use the standard fixatives between layers... over and over... leaving each one out there to dry for 10 or 15 minutes! Especially in the winter!! I'm too old for that!Because it's not an aerosol spray ... and is more like a pump spray similar to your Lysol or "409" sprayers... it can scare you when you first use it. By that I mean, it can come out much more unevenly than an aerosol spray. And when you first see it hit your painting, you're afraid that it's gonna' dry "gloppy" or with circles of varying sizes showing! It won't!! Relax, it'll be fine. Give it time to dry thoroughly (doesn't need more than 2 or 3 minutes, unless you've been really heavy handed)... and you'll be pleased. It says on the label that you can use it over and over on the same painting... "indefinitely"... and that's true! Don't know how it works... but magically, you keep gaining more and more tooth... and can layer and layer and layer. Guess if it's the recipe that Degas used... that's why it's so darn good!
Felipe Adan Lerma
Reviewed in the United States on February 6, 2020
I’ve been experimenting with absorbent ground on 6x6 inch canvases lately and this is probably #6 or 7 in the batch. Brush on isolation layers worked on all the previous pictures til I reached the first one with gouache, ruined it! So, if I was to continue to be able to do pieces like this one, more delicate placed pigments, more nuanced with such small spaces, I needed a spray application. I didn’t want anything toxic or requiring masks or having to be done outside. My online info search kept taking me to Spectrafix’s fixative spray, so I tried it, and am extremely pleased it works so close to description! As my before (on the right) and after image (on the left) show, very little change, esp in regard to the tiny speckling of pigment and the wash gradations created by the watercolors (I feel I can only help that happen, the quality of watercolors does all the major work). My sig did get faded out some, so it’s the only major addition, one I was able to do with a permanent ink pen on top of the fixative coating (as advertised). I also added two tiny highlights I just wanted to add, not that were re-dos of work messed up. Highly recommend! Now I just need a non-toxic spray varnish 😊
melon
Reviewed in Australia on December 21, 2020
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.
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