Schmincke Extra-Soft Artist’s Pastels

Schmincke Extra-Soft Artist’s Pastels are as soft as velvet and silk with a particularly soft and intense colour application. The colour spectrum of 400 shades allows limitless artistic possibilities.

• Each stick is handmade individually
• 400 brilliant and rich colours (see Schmincke Pastel Colour Chart)
• Exceptionally strong colour application
• Best, highly concentrated artists’ pigments (without chalk)
• Minimum binder content
• Maximum lightfastness
• Unique colour mixtures and special colours
• Brilliant colours as soft as silk and satin

Traditionally crafted pastels
In this traditional process, screw presses are used first to shape the pre-kneaded dough into round strands, which are then removed by hand and cut into the right length in wire-strung frames. The sticks are still damp and are left to dry in the air for 8 days before they are labelled by hand.

Variety of colour
The complete range includes 400 colour shades, divided into 75 colours which each have 5 grades: In addition to the pure colour (D), there is a black graduation (B) and 3 grades of white graduations (H, M, O). The balanced range is supplemented by a 10-step neutral grey series, 5 dark shades, gold, silver, 2 black shades, white and 5 special pearlescent shades for specific effects.

R115.00