Schmincke Extra Soft Artist Pastels - Manganese Violet to Mossy Green 2
Finest extra-soft artists’ pastels.
SCHMINCKE SOFT PASTEL COLOUR CHART
Pastel painting has enjoyed great popularity for centuries, uniting drawing techniques with an intense colour effect. The extra-fine pastels by Schmincke are as soft as velvet and silk with a particularly soft and intense colour application as a result of their formulation and the traditional production technique. The colour spectrum of 400 shades allows limitless artistic possibilities, whether used in their pure form on specialist pastel paper, in mixed-media techniques or also - on the special Schmincke primers - on canvas. A professional range of fixatives ensures that the observer can also enjoy the unique results over a long period.
- Each stick is handmade individually – colours that are as soft as velvet and silk
- 400 brilliant and rich colours
- Exceptionally strong colour application
- Best, highly concentrated artists’ pigments
- Minimum binder content
- Maximum lightfastness
- Unique colour mixtures and special colours
- PURE COLOUR - D
- BLACK GRADUATION - B
- 3 SHADES OF WHITE GRADUATION H, M, O.
Brilliant colours as soft as silk and satin
Working with Schmincke pastels leads you back to the origin of colour. Our round sticks consists 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.
Traditionally crafted pastels
The unusual formulation, which guarantees a unique strong colour application, also requires an equally unique production process: Tr