If you're a user of PanPastels and want to make your own swatch sheet, there's a way you could do this with a gel printing plate that would handily seal the pastel so it doesn't flake off or rub off on another surface.

• Put a smudge of each colour you have on a paper surface of your choice - one with a bit of grab is best, so printmaking paper or coldpress watercolour paper.
• Label each swatch with its colour name/number, pigment info, and lightfastness rating.
• Cover your gel plate in a thin layer of gel medium.
• Place your swatched sheet face down on the plate and rub as you would with any other project on a gel plate.

There you have it! A swatched, labelled, and sealed chart of your PanPastels! You could do this with any other dry medium you'd want to seal up as well.

• While any notes you'd want to make on the chart later could be done on the back, if you wanted to do it on the front with the other information, it's going to prove problematic.
• However, there are fine-tipped pens that contain (or can be filled with) acrylic paint that could be used to write on a gel medium surface. Derwent makes a line of paint pens that would suit.

Tips:

• Gel plates also make a convenient way to clean off your PanPastel tools and get the spongey applicator tips on/off the handles without having to touch them.