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When you
decide to introduce pastel into your painting, don't
treat it as a way of correcting mistakes made in water
colour, or that's the effect you’ll get.
Initial
drawing with a pastel pencil in a colour relating to the
subject will leave behind interesting lines after water
colour washes have been applied. Pastel should become
part of the whole painting and not appear as an after
thought.
Blending areas of pastel into the water colour washes and
tracing fine pastel lines throughout the work will help
give the painting a unified appearance.
I use
a mixture of hard and soft pastels, Schwan Stabillo
pastel pencils and charcoal. A light spray of fixative
over finished pastel helps protect work and stops dust
settling after framing.
If your painting has a lot of pastel on it ask your framer to space
the matt to allow any dust to fall into the cavity. 
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