Description
Schmincke Extra Soft Pastel Landscape Sets
Pastel painting has enjoyed great popularity for centuries, uniting drawing techniques with an intense colour effect. Extra-fine soft pastels by Schmincke are as soft as velvet and silk, resulting in a particularly soft and intense colour application. This is a result of their formulation and traditional production technique. The colour selection allows limitless artistic possibilities, whether used pure on pastel paper or in mixed-media applications. Fixatives will ensure that the observer can enjoy the unique results over a long period.
Features:
- Each stick is handmade individually – colours that are as soft as velvet and silk
- Brilliant and rich colours
- Exceptionally strong colour application
- Best, highly concentrated artists’ pigments
- Minimum binder content
- Maximum lightfastness
- Full size sticks are approx. 2.5″ long x 0.5″ diameter
Sets:
- Set of 15: 001D, 007O, 013H, 033D, 018D, 077B, 085D, 070D, 094B, 098D, 064O, 057O, 055D, 062D, 095D.
- Set of 30: 098O, 037O, 021O, 013M, 013O, 003M, 004H, 014D, 016B, 024B, 044B, 059D, 059O, 062O, 063M, 064D, 065H, 065H, 068M, 091B, 085O, 077M, 086D, 076B, 070B, 098G, 098F, 038B, 092D, 095B.
Schmincke Pastell Colour Chart
At the source of colour – best artist pigments with minimal binder
Working with Schmincke pastels leads you back to the origin of colour. The round sticks consist only of the finest artists’ pigments without chalk, and a minimum amount of binder. The binder content is so small that the medium-find ground pigments only just achieve a stable bond.
Handmade Pastels
The unusual formulation which guarantees a unique strong colour application, also requires an equally unique production process: traditional craftsmanship. In this traditional and time-consuming process, screw presses are used first to shape the pre-kneaded dough into round strands which are afterwards removed by hand and cut into the right length in wire-strung frames. The sticks are still damp and are left to air dry for 8 days before they are individually labelled by hand.
Due to the particularly fine formulas, machine production of Schmincke pastels is not possible – the precious sticks could break.
