I tried doing the paintings on my drawing table but the pastel would collect. So I decided to paint standing at an easel. I stapled the pastel paper (typically Stonehenge) to artist's board, and then placed it in the easel. The easel tray collects most of the dust, but as the painting sticks out on both sides past the easel tray, I decided to attach cheap aluminum meatloaf pans to collect the dust. In order to get the pans stable, I have taped them to a t-square that is taped to the easel. This easy system works extremely well, leaving little dust collecting on the paper as I paint.
