Schmincke Artist Soft Pastel 014 D Gold Ocher

The pastel technique, which combines drawing techniques with intense color effects, has been highly popular among artists for centuries. Schmincke extra-soft pastels possess a velvety consistency and a texture as soft as silk. Thanks to their traditional production method and special formula, they offer a painting application that stands out with its softness and color intensity. When used in their pure form, they can be applied on special pastel paper or a canvas prepared with Schmincke primers. They are suitable for all mixed media techniques. The color spectrum, which includes 400 different shades, allows for countless artistic possibilities. With the fixatives produced by Schmincke for pastels, your pastel artworks will remain as dazzling as they were when first created for a very long time without deteriorating. Since Schmincke Pastels contain extra-fine and intense pigments, they cannot be machine-produced because machines break pastel sticks of this quality. Therefore, they are produced using traditional methods and are cut by hand. One of the secrets behind the consistent and unchanging high quality of the Schmincke Pastel series is its steadfast adherence to this traditional production technique.