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Schmincke: Soft Pastels Singles (Part 1) – Art Academy Direct

Schmincke: Soft Pastels Singles (Part 1)

Schmincke

Regular price €4.75 Sale

Working with Schmincke Soft Pastels will give you a completely unique drawing experience. They have an incredibly high concentration of premium quality pigment powder held together by the absolute minimum amount of binding agent - just enough to ensure that they remain a stable compound. Unlike many pastels on the market, they also do not contain chalk or additives which helps keep their colouration pure and consistent throughout each pastel.

This stripped-back recipe results in such soft pastels that Schmincke had to design a costly and time-consuming manufacturing process to stop them from breaking. Each lump of pre-kneaded pastel dough is rolled into rounded skeins which are sectioned by hand and laid onto a sheet. The skeins are then cut by hand with a wire-strung frame and transferred onto wooden palettes where they are left to dry for around two weeks. By this time they are so soft that they need to be wrapped by hand and gently placed in their foam packaging. Each pastel is covered in an information sheet that denotes its colour name, number, and grade of graduation:

  • B - Black Graduation
  • D - Pure Colour
  • H - Darkest White Graduation
  • M - Medium White Graduation
  • O - Lightest White Graduation

A premium range of handcrafted extra soft pastels that offer a vast choice of finest quality colours.

  • Available in 200 colours
  • Excellent quality
  • Made with binding agent and pure pigments
  • High pigment concentration
  • Made in Germany