Schmincke Artist Soft Pastel Set – Lightest & Deepest Shades, 6 Colors Half Stick

Schmincke Artist Soft Pastel Set, Lightest & Deepest Shades, 6 colors in half-stick size.

Combining drawing techniques with intensely rich color effects, pastel painting has been a favorite among artists for centuries. Schmincke's extra-soft pastels offer a velvety consistency and a texture as soft as silk. Thanks to their traditional production method and special formula, they deliver an application defined by exceptional softness and color intensity.

Used in their pure form, these pastels work beautifully on specialty pastel paper or on canvas prepared with Schmincke primers, and they suit all mixed-media techniques. A color spectrum spanning 400 different shades opens up virtually limitless artistic possibilities. With Schmincke's dedicated pastel fixatives, your finished pastel artwork stays as vivid and pristine as the day it was created, for years to come.

Because Schmincke pastels are extra-fine and densely pigmented, they can't be manufactured by machine — the pressure would simply crack sticks of this quality. Instead, they're produced using traditional methods and hand-cut, one of the key reasons behind the Schmincke pastel range's consistently exceptional and unwavering quality.