Category: Soft Pastels

soft-pastels.jpgSoft Pastels offer brilliant colors and high pigmentation. They are ideal for artists who wish to use intense colors. They offer a lot of diversity, as they are mixable, wipeable, and water soluble. They can be used to achieve a wide range of drawing effects, from crisp lines to soft feathery textures.

Historically, pastels can be traced back to the 16th century and have been used by many famous artists, but they became especially popular in the 19th century. Delacroix, Manet, Renoir, Toulouse-Lautrec, Whistler and Degas all used pastels for finished work as well as for sketches. Because they have no liquid binder, they do not degrade over time. Soft Pastels are the most popular form of pastels and have more pigment and less binder than other forms of pastel. They are most popular with professional pastel artists

Advantages

  • More pigment and less binder than hard pastels and pastel pencils. Consequently the colours can be brighter and more saturated.
  • Very easy to smudge and blend soft pastels
  • The whole pastel can be used in a variety of ways to create a variety of marks and coverage of the paper
  • Drop the pigment load faster and consequently covers the support faster than any other type of pastel

Challenges

  • More difficult to use with skill
  • As with any media it’s easy to produce “mud” colours if smudging and blending without a good knowledge of how colours work together
  • More difficult to get a point or sharp edge
  • Depending on the support used, soft pastels can fill the tooth of a support quickly
  • Finished drawings made with soft pastels require protecting, either framing under glass. Unless ‘cured’ they also need spraying with a fixative to prevent smudging.

Rembrandt Individual Soft Pastels

Rembrandt

MSRP: AUD 5.60 AUD 5.45 - AUD 5.75

MSRP:

Set of 12 Pastel Pencils

Faber Castell

AUD 55.00

MSRP:

Rembrandt Wooden Box with 90 Whole Portrait Pastels

Rembrandt

MSRP: AUD 599.00 AUD 499.00

MSRP:

Rembrandt Master Selection with 150 Whole Pastels

Rembrandt

MSRP: AUD 865.00 AUD 764.50

MSRP:

Rembrandt Royal Selection with 225 Whole Pastels

Rembrandt

MSRP: AUD 1,390.00 AUD 1,132.50

MSRP:

Rembrandt Wooden Box with 45 Whole Portrait Pastels

Rembrandt

MSRP: AUD 350.00 AUD 274.45

MSRP:

Rembrandt Wooden Box with 60 Whole Portrait Pastels

Rembrandt

MSRP: AUD 469.00 AUD 395.00

MSRP:

Rembrandt Wooden Box with 45 Whole Landscape Pastels

Rembrandt

MSRP: AUD 350.00 AUD 274.45

MSRP:

Rembrandt Wooden Box with 60 Whole Landscape Pastels

Rembrandt

MSRP: AUD 469.00 AUD 395.00

MSRP:

Rembrandt Wooden Box with 90 Whole Landscape Pastels

Rembrandt

MSRP: AUD 599.00 AUD 499.50

MSRP:

Rembrandt Wooden Box with 15 Whole Pastels

Rembrandt

MSRP: AUD 109.50 AUD 90.00

MSRP:

Rembrandt Wooden Box with 30 Half Pastels

Rembrandt

MSRP: AUD 115.00 AUD 95.00

MSRP:

Rembrandt Soft Pastel set of 15 whole and 30 half pastels

Rembrandt

MSRP: AUD 165.00 AUD 126.50

MSRP:

Rembrandt Cardboard Set with 90 Whole Landscape Pastels

Rembrandt

MSRP: AUD 390.00 AUD 325.00

MSRP:

Rembrandt Cardboard Set with 15 Whole Pastels

Rembrandt

MSRP: AUD 85.00 AUD 65.45

MSRP:

Rembrandt Cardboard Set with 30 Half Pastels

Rembrandt

MSRP: AUD 93.50 AUD 76.95

MSRP:

Rembrandt Cardboard Set with 90 Whole Portrait Pastels

Rembrandt

MSRP: AUD 390.00 AUD 325.00

MSRP:

Rembrandt Cardboard Set with 30 Whole Landscape Pastels

Rembrandt

MSRP: AUD 159.00 AUD 108.50

MSRP:

Rembrandt Cardboard Set with 30 Whole Portrait Pastels

Rembrandt

MSRP: AUD 159.00 AUD 110.50

MSRP:

Rembrandt Cardboard Set with 30 Whole Pastels

Rembrandt

MSRP: AUD 160.00 AUD 108.50

MSRP:

Rembrandt Cardboard Set with 45 Whole Pastels

Rembrandt

MSRP: AUD 205.00 AUD 175.00

MSRP:

Rembrandt Cardboard Set with 15 Half Pastels

Rembrandt

MSRP: AUD 43.50 AUD 48.50

MSRP:

Rembrandt Cardboard Set with 60 Half Pastels

Rembrandt

MSRP: AUD 180.00 AUD 142.95

MSRP:

Rembrandt Cardboard Set with 90 Half Pastels

Rembrandt

MSRP: AUD 265.00 AUD 214.50

MSRP: