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Cray-Pas Specialist Artists Oil Pastels
A well balanced range of 84 colours containing high quality pigments with excellent lighfast ratings. They are extremely smooth and soft in application and are ideal for techniques such as rubbings, blending, gradations, scratch back, watercolour resist, overlaying or as an introduction to oil painting techniques.
Cray-Pas are available individually or in sets of 12, 25, 36 and 50 assorted colours.
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Cretacolor Carre Artists Square Pastels
Made from high quality natural and synthetic pigments and similiar in composition to unfired chalk
sticks. They offer a high degree of light resistance and stability and are suitable for both amateur
and professional artists. They are semi-hard and yet blend easily with minimum dusting. Their
square shape allows broad and fine work and perform best on a soft drawing paper of average
roughness. They are blendable, extendable, soluble in water and require fixing. The convenient 7 x
7 x 75mm size is designed to fit in the Cretacolor chalk holder.
There are 72 colours in the range, available individually or in assorted sets of 12, 24, 36, 48 and 72 colours.
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Derwent Pastel Blocks
Derwent Pastel blocls are smooth and silky, offering effortless colour transfer and infinite blending capabilities. The colourless Derwent Blending White, which is available in all the tins, allows you to blend the 36 colours easily without affecting their density or shade. Derwent Pastels have a semi-hard consistency, not as firm and rigid as traditional hard pastels. Their square shape and smooth, semi-hard texture allow you to use the ends, sides or edges to produce both broad strokes and fine lines. Although not as powdery as soft pastels, the effect is equally beautiful.
Available individually or in sets of 12, 24 or
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Daler-Rowney Soft Pastels
Over many decades Daler-Rowney have perfected the art of soft pastel making.
The finest available pigments are available are combined with other ingredients to give the most and most consistent painting experience through a carefully balanced range of 186 tints. The softness of each pastel allows the production of rich, graduated velvet tones of beautiful richness and hue. All colours come in tints of 1 – 4 (4 being the deepest) with each vibrant colour derived from precise blending of pigment with superior quality chalk and china clay.
All colours are non-hazardous with minimal tendency to crumble and dust.
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Richeson Handmade Soft Pastels
These professional quality, hand-rolled soft pastels have a velvety soft texture and come in a
range 120 bright, vibrant colours. They are manufactured with only the highest quality pigments
and minimal binder making them superior in texture, colour and response. Their large size (660 x
160mm) makes them up to 33% larger than most other pastels.
Available in wooden boxed sets of 18, 36, 72 and 120 colours.
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Richeson Soft Pastels
These professional quality soft pastels are slightly firmer than the Richeson Hand-rolled pastels but still deliver bright intense colours and smooth consistent laydown. They are manufactured with only the highest quality pigments.
Available in wooden boxed sets of 18, 36, 72 and 120 colours.
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Richeson Semi-Hard Soft Square Pastels
High quality semi-hard square pastels in 120 bright, vivid colours. These pastels are highly
pigmented lightfast professional quality pastels. Firmer than traditional pastels they offer smooth
control with a crisp hard edge that resists crumbling, making them ideal for underpainting and
shading. They can also be sharpened to a point if desired.
Available in wooden boxed sets of 72 and 120 assorted colours.
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Sakura Nouvel Carré Artist Pastels
Sakura Nouvel Carré Artist Pastels are designed for the student and professional.
The square shape is versatile for all work. Corners provide a sharp point; great for quick sketches. The side of the stick gives you broad coverage which is ideal for quick colour fill-ins and blending with a pastel brush. They are semi hard for minimal “finger-powdering” and the elimination of paper wrapping. Carré Pastels are water soluble. Artwork may be brushed with water or the pastel may be powdered to mix with water, thus providing the gentle characteristics of watercolour painting. Carré Pastels are lightfast rated and capable of an infinite range of hues, shades and tints. The pure pigments produce vivid, brilliant colours.
The 96 colours provide an excellent range with the fluorescent and pearlescent colours. Carré Pastel pigments are safe - they are certified non-toxic by the Art and Craft Material Institute and meet ASTM D4236 and EN-71 CE standards. Dimensions are 8 x 8 x 60mm.
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Unison Soft Hand Rolled Pastels
The world’s finest Soft Pastels.
Over a decade ago, in the hills of Northumberland, England, artist John Hersey began hand-making his own pastels. Specifically developed to be superior in colour, texture and response, Unison Soft Pastels are unlike anything on the market today.
The unique colour formulations of Unison Soft Pastels are the result of over a decade of experimentation, culminating in intense, vibrant colours blended almost exclusively from pigment and water. The colour formulations contain only pure pigments in a cycle of related hues instead of merely adding white or black to base colours. The result is intense, vibrant colour application not muddied by the blending of colours. The fact that these pastels are individually hand-rolled, rather than extruded from a machine, means they contain very little binder thus giving Unison pastels their distinctive smooth texture, delivering a consistency of response across the colour spectrum that is unmatched by other pastels.
There are 404 colours in the Unison range, available individually or in assorted sets.
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