20% Off Art Spectrum Extra Soft Sets

The pastels are quite open in their consistency and not dense at all which allows you to lightly lay down colour very quickly. The pastels can be best characterised as having a light creamy texture.

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15% Off Rembrandt Carboard Box Sets of 90 Pastels

Promotion includes both the Portrait and Landscape sets. Rembrandt pastels are towards the harder end of the scale in terms of softness. This allows many techniques and effects to be implemented which are a lot harder with the very soft pastels. They have very good lightfastness and are free of pigments based on lead, cadmium and cobalt.

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10% Off Blue Earth Singles

The pastels are very soft and have a rectangle shape allowing work to be completed with an edge or as you would with a round pastel. The pastels are shorter than the traditional round pastels but are chunkier and have excellent covering power.

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New Girault Gwenneth Barth-White Portrait Assortment

The Gwenneth Barth-White Portrait Assortment is now available. A very fine selection of 50 Girault pastels.

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15% Off Sennelier Pastel Card Sheets

Pastel card has a quite flat abraisive surface containing cork powder. It is avialbale in 14 colours and finished work does not generally require fixative. A good level of detail is available using this paper. Not suitable for underpainting.

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The Daily Pastel

Suzanne Perez, Tulips Aglow
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If you would like your paintings to be featured on  The Daily Pastel  please contact us and we will provide some instructions for sending your pictures to us. All styles of pastel paintings are welcome.

$50 Off Craypas Wooden Box Set of 88 Oil Pastels

Cray Pas Specialist oil pastels are artist grade. They are made from highly concentrated premium quality pigments, wax and oil to provide professionals with a superb creamy texture that facilitates blend-ability, and can be used in combination with a variety of painting mediums.

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10% Off Sennelier Sets of 30 Half Sticks

The Sennelier pastels were first introduced at the turn of the 20th Century. Whilst the colours and tones have evolved the making of the pastels themselves has remained relatively unchanged. The sennelier pastels are highly recommended and are part of the history of colour itself.

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Schmincke Super Special
Set of 11 in a Tin Only $44.95

Schmincke pastels contain the purest medium fine ground artist’s pigments in the highest possible concentration. Contrastingly, the binder is kept to a minimum. This provides for one of the softest pastels on the market, a joy to use which takes you back to the origins of colour.

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The Big Pan Pastel Sale

- Dawn Emerson Set of 40 Pastels and Accessories Now Only $395.00 including Free Postage (pictured above)
- $30 Off Joanne Barby Sets
- Sets of 10 Pan Pastels 10% Off
- Single Pan Pastels from $9.45
- Compact sets of 20 only $144.95, Save $41.70
- Set of 80 Pan Pastels and Accessories Now Only $592.50 including free postage.

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New: Blue Earth Drifter Set

Following on from the popular  ' Nomad '  set Blue Earth have created the  ' Drifter '  set for those who may need a more compact travel set. With a great mix of colourful and desaturated colours the set will be a great companion.

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Pastels - Pure and Vibrant

Pastel painting takes you back to the origins of colour. Lying somewhere between sketching and painting, pastels encompas the best of both. Pure enjoyment resulting in beautiful art works.

A Guide to Softness

Soft Pastels vary in their degree of softness and we are often asked about this. The list below is arranged from softest to hardest and is based on our experience.