Medium and Hard Pastels

Caran d’Ache Pastel Cubes have a soft, powdery texture that allows for generous shading. The 3-1/4” x 1/4" shape is easy to handle and the colors are very lightfast.

Cretacolor hard pastels are recognized by artists all over the world for their brilliant colors and high pigmentation. Their square shape lends itself well to large surfaces and small details. They are characterized by especially soft, oil-free strokes.

Cretacolor hard pastels have been recognized by artists all over the world for their brilliant colors and high pigmentation. Their square shape lends itself well to painting both large surfaces and small details.

Polychromos pastels contain the highest quality pigments for unsurpassed resistance to fading - and they're the only hard pastels with the lightfastness rating printed on every stick. Blend with fingers, stump, or paintbrush dipped in white spirit.

For drawing on colored paper. Pressed colored chalk crayons have a firm, dustless consistency. Effective blending--light colors can be applied over darker hues. Set of 24 square sticks.

NuPastels have a rich, creamy texture that blends and shades easily. Frequently used in advertising layouts, NuPastels are stronger than ordinary soft pastels, which means less breakage and easier cleanup. Use them to create broad strokes and fine lines.

A great addition to any pastelist's repertoire, these new sets of Richeson pastels provide a firm foundation for portraits, landscapes, or basic pastel work. Every set includes 12 round soft pastel half-sticks, 12 round medium-soft half-sticks, 12 square semi-hard half-sticks, and a variety of too

This set offers a great opportunity to sample Richeson’s soft, medium-soft, and semi-hard pastels, all in convenient half-sticks. The set contains 18 pastels, six each of three varieties — round soft, round medium-soft, and square semi-hard.

Richeson's professional, semi-hard pastel sticks are perfect for underpainting. Their square shape is ideal for shading, and they can also be sharpened to a point if desired.

Developed especially for use by street artists, these jumbo-sized, 2-3/4" long x 3/4"Dia pastels are ideal for long-lasting sidewalk paintings, murals, and other outdoor art.

Hard, square-shaped, easy to use. Ideal for sketching and tight drawing with edge of stick. Use broad side to lay in large areas of color. Richly pigmented. Produce very little dust. Sets up to 48.

Assorted Sauce is a cross between a soft pastel and a Conte crayon. It combines high-quality pigment with Chasov Yar clay and industrial carbon for a velvety smooth drawing crayon. This set of ten colors is packaged in a varnished wooden box.

Classic hard pastel sticks, for paper, board or primed canvas. Made from high-grade pigments and Chasov Yar clay. 20-crayon set, in a varnished, slide-top wooden box.

ArtGraf Viarco Pigmented Tailor Chalk is soft, rich, and watersouble, for use on both wet and dry surfaces. Ideal for travel or studio use, it comes in a variety of colors and sets. Each chalk measures 1-3/4" x 2".

General's Compressed Pastel Chalk package contains four smooth, compressed sketching sticks. Each stick is 3"L x 1/4"W. The assortment package contains four different sticks-one each of Sienna, Sepia, Burnt Sienna, and Light Flesh Tone.

General's Compressed Pastel Crayons are extra-smooth, oil-free, blendable pastel crayons in a variety of pigment-rich colors. These handcrafted, artist-quality crayons are offered in a set of four traditional sketching colors, including White, Sanguine, Sienna, and Black.

Since the early 1900s, General's has offered its handcrafted MultiPastels for drawing and sketching. These artist-quality, pigment-rich chalk pastels are best used on rough paper.

The name says it all! This introductory set contains two chalk pencils (Sanguine and Sienna), three compressed chalk pastels (Sanguine, Vandyke Brown and Light Flesh), a 4" x 6" chamois, a tortillion, an All Art artist sharpener, and a kneadable eraser.

Developed especially for use by street artists, these jumbo-sized, 2-3/4" long x 3/4"Dia pastels are ideal for long-lasting sidewalk paintings, murals, and other outdoor art.

These square chalk pastels are a great value for the classroom or for fine artists. With a velvety smooth, dry texture and brilliant, concentrated pigmentation, this softer-style medium is available in various color assortments to suit every need.