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