Description
Silky-soft, handmade pastels
The art of pastel painting has been popular for centuries as it combines drawing skills with an intense, velvety colour effect. Schmincke’s extra-fine pastel pastels are as delicate as velvet and silk thanks to their unique formulation and handcrafted production, and enable a particularly soft and intensive application of colour.
The broad range of 400 brilliant colours opens up limitless artistic possibilities, whether on special pastel paper, in mixed media techniques or even on canvas when used on the special Schmincke primers. A professional range of fixative sprays ensures that the unique results are retained in the long term.
The special features of Schmincke pastels:
- Each stick is individually handmade – colours that are as soft as velvet and silk
- 400 brilliant and rich colours
- Exceptionally strong colour application
- Best, highly concentrated artists’ pigments
- Minimum binder content
- Maximum lightfastness
- Unique colour mixtures and special colours
This set consists of 60 half sticks – a great way to start out.