Soft Pastels Open Stock

An excellent bargain for the quality! Blockx pastels are handmade in Belgium with pure pigment. They are water soluble and lightfast, with a velvety smooth consistency.

Brilliant colors and rich texture of the soft dry pastels signal their high proportion of pure, first class pigments blended with a minimum amount of binders.These round, unwrapped sticks have a soft, smooth, and uniform texture.

Polychromos pastels contain the highest quality pigments for unsurpassed resistance to fading. Blend with fingers, stump or paintbrush dipped in white spirit.

Here are genuine artists’ quality pastels — the softest in the world — uniquely packaged in stacking and interlocking jars. PanPastels were specially developed so that artists could lift, apply, and control pastel color, just like true painting.

Rembrandt, the world's most popular soft pastels,have an unsurpassed purity and intensity. Rembrandt Pastels are made from the best quality, finely ground, pure pigments in an extra-fine kaolin clay binder. They contain no hard bits or sharp edges.

Unmatched in their softness and consistency, Schmincke soft pastels were created using the finest artist's pigments and a minimum of binders. Pastel softness permits beautiful dense application, and high pigment concentration results in intense colors.

These soft pastels are composed of the same professional quality, finely ground pure pigments as Sennelier standard-size Extra Fine Soft Pastels. The BIG difference is that these pastels are 8 times larger!

Sennelier uses only the purest pigments, mixed with minimal amounts of natural binders, in an exclusive formula that yields lightfast, water-soluble pastels. There is just enough binder to hold the pigment together as the pastels are formed by hand.

Diane Townsend, a practicing pastel artist in New York City, presents her line of soft pastels, giving artists an opportunity to employ a variety of techniques. Formed by hand into pleasing one-of-a-kind sticks, these pastels contain no chalks or fillers.

Diane Townsend presents her line of terrages pastel sticks. Townsend Terrages are designed to "open" the surface of the paper. The pumice ploughs through the finish of the paper, creating a toothy surface on which to transfer abundant color.

English artist John Hersey began hand-making his own pastels over a decade ago. Gently hand-rolled and air-dried, each stick is as much an organic sculpture as it is a tool. Look closely and see the fine lines and fingerprints of the pastels' creator.

Drawing on over 160 years of color-making experience, Winsor & Newton has developed a range of artists' soft pastels formulated to the very highest standards. They use only the purest, highest-grade pigments in high concentration.