Pastels
The pastel medium was first mentioned by Leonardo da Vinci in 1495. During the 18th century the medium became fashionable for portrait painting, using pastel as a mixed-media technique with gouache. The 19th-century French painter Edgar Degas was a most prolific user of pastel and is considered its champion.
- Gallery Drawing Pastels Set of 6$9.80
Mungyo Gallery Oil Pastels are high grade, non-toxic and made from the finest pigments with brilliant and easy to blend colours. Effective on a range of paper surfaces.
Assorted Colours - Gallery Drawing Pastels Set of 24$41.85
Mungyo Gallery Oil Pastels are high grade, non-toxic and made from the finest pigments with brilliant and easy to blend colours. Effective on a range of paper surfaces.
Assorted Colours
Soft
- Art Spectrum Extra Soft Square Pastel Sets$107.30-$321.95
Discover the collection of ART SPECTRUM® EXTRA SOFT SQUARE PASTELS. With over 50 years experience of making professional artists’ colours, Art Spectrum are proud to introduce a selection of pure pigment extra soft square pastels. Colours ranging from smouldering darks, to delicate veils of highlight colours, all exhibiting the rich velvety bloom loved by pastel artists. Experience soft creamy pastels that lay down smoothly and blend beautifully onto paper.19 items
The shape allows broad strokes for easy coverage and strong gestural marks and the ability to create fine detailed work.Feel confident that you are using professional artists’ materials made from the highest quality lightfast pigments which are triple-milled to bring out the intensity of each colour. Each single pastel is 13mm high x 16mm wide x 45mm long (1/2 inch high x 5/8 inch wide x 1 3/4 inch long). - Nupastels$4.30
60 itemsA pastel that's just right! They're tougher than traditional soft pastels, but maintain the same rich, creamy pigments needed for superior blending and shading. Artists of all expertise levels can benefit from these pastels.
- Art Spectrum Colourfix Pastels$9.6020 items
- Schmincke Soft Pastels
21 itemsUnmatched in their softness and consistency, Schmincke soft pastels were created using the finest artist's pigments and a minimum of binders. The softness of the pastels permits a beautiful dense application, and the extremely high pigment concentration results in great color intensity.
Sticks are rich and buttery in texture. The pigments slide right off the stick without any crumbling or breaking. Schmincke Pastels are prepared by hand and by traditional machines, and also labeled by hand to help prevent breakage. Schmincke's generously sized full stick measures 2-5/8" long × 7/16" in diameter (67 mm × 11 mm).
- Art Spectrum Extra Soft Pastels$10.5011 items
- Rembrandt Soft Pastels$6.95
The history of Royal Talens goes back to 1899. Rembrandt Soft Pastels have since become one of the most popular artist pastels in the world.202 items - Mungyo Square Pastels$1.30
44 itemsMade with the purest grade of pigment, Gallery Semi-Hard Pastels have unsurpassed bright colors and the highest degree of lightfastness. Their square shape and semi-hardness makes them ideal for both rough sketch and painting, or broad side being easy.
- Art Spectrum Soft Pastels$9.60
154 itemsArt Spectrum Soft Pastels provide the artist with colours that are pure, brilliant and intense, and remain that way. The very best pigments are selected and triple milled at maximum concentration to bring out the finest colour and provide the rich, velvety bloom valued by pastellists. This method of production produces smouldering darks, brilliant and intense pure colours and a range of subtle and delicate tints. All Art Spectrum pure pigment pastels are free from heavy metals, asbestos or other toxic substances.
- Faber-Castell Chalk Pastels$3.50
44 itemsPolychromos pastels contain the highest quality pigments for unsurpassed resistance to fading. Blend with fingers, stump or paintbrush dipped in white spirit.
PanPastels
- PanPastel Palette Trays$26.60-$36.802 items
- PanPastels$16.80-$18.95
PanPastel Colors are genuine artists’ quality pastels, uniquely packed in a pan format; available in a range of 80 colors.PanPastel Colors were developed so that artists can easily lift, apply and control pastel color, just like true painting! The pan format holds the color like paint for easy application. Loaded with the highest quality artists’ pigments; PanPastel Colors are made using a unique manufacturing process requiring minimal binder and fillers, resulting in a rich, ultra soft and low dust formulation. All of these professional quality colors are highly pigmented, have excellent lightfastness and are fully erasable. Each pan contains 35%* more material than the average pastel stick. PanPastel Colors are fully compatible with traditional pastel sticks, pastel surfaces, conventional fixatives and other artist's colors.96 items
*Average, based on a survey of leading brands. - PanPastel Sofft Applicators$8.70-$31.80
Created for PanPastel applications and techniques, these applicators are reusable. Load the sponges with color and gently apply to the surface, varying pressure to change the effect. Use the edges for lines and details. Easy to clean for reuse.22 items
Oil
- Caran d'Ache Neopastel Crayons
$5.90$5.3196 itemsNeopastels are professional quality oil pastels with superb smoothness and blendability. These pastels are absolutely dustless.
They are made from permanent pigments that are equally suited to intense coloring, delicate shading, and subtle transition of hue. Individual pastels measure 62mm × 9mm.
- Gallery Oil Pastels$1.3044 items
Water Soluble
Pencils
- General's Chalk Pencils$3.40
5 itemsPastel Chalk Pencils have a smooth, blendable formula for use in traditional fine arts, scrapbooks or memory books. They're perfect for lettering, outlining, stripes, borders, shading, accents, embellishments, roughing and aging effects. Pastel Chalk Pencils can be blended easily with a finger, paper stump, kneaded eraser, or tissue. For a dramatic effect, use them on a dark colored paper with a rough surface. Each acid-free pencil is encased in cedar wood and tipped with General's extra soft vinyl eraser. Pencils are pre-sharpened.
- Caran d'Ache Pastel Pencils
$10.80$8.6084 itemsCaran d'Ache Pastel Pencils are made from pure raw materials to create a pastel pencil paste that is fed by hand into round moulding dies, oven-dried in special baskets, carefully glued between two strips of the finest California cedar, and cut into lengths to produce several pencils. Four coats of clear varnish are applied, and great care is taken to exactly match the color cap to the shade of the pastel. As a final step, the pencils are sharpened in a double-cone process, a particularly delicate operation for such a fragile product.
Caran d'Ache Pastel Pencils are also exceptionally lightfast.
- Derwent Pastel Pencils$4.3072 items
- Faber-Castell Pitt Pastel Pencils$3.80
60 itemsPITT artists' pastel pencils, with their oil-free pastel leads, are used by artists not only as the perfect complement to pastel crayons for elaborating fine details, but also on their own. Many artists who enjoy pastel techniques and their versatility, but not the dirty hands and coloured dust that accompany them, have opted to use these special pencils.
PITT pastel pencils have a very compact lead which is economical to use. The lead contains a high level of pigment, making the pencils ideally suited both to drawing lines and shading, as well as blending and merging into delicate colour transitions. The colour selection in this range places a particular emphasis on the muted shades and earth tones that are especially important for pastel drawing. - Stabilo CarbOthello Pastel Pencils$4.20
60 itemsThese German-made pencils are world famous for their quality, lightfast pigments. Their opaque, water-soluble colors blend beautifully and erase easily. The large-diameter lead can make broad strokes or be sharpened to a fine point for details and lettering.Draw with CarbOthello pencils as you would draw with a pastel stick. CarbOthello pencils can also be used like watercolor pencils — they respond instantly to a wet brush or pre-dampened paper. Pencils have semi-soft leads in a woodcased pencil form and are pre-sharpened.
- Gioconda Pastel Pencil$2.50
Gioconda Soft Pastel Pencils offer the smooth finish of conventional pastels without the mess. They are highly pigmented, with a buttery smooth feel, and have excellent blending and toning characteristics on dark or light surfaces. All colors are lightfast and fade resistant.47 items
Primer
- Art Spectrum Pastel Primer$35.40
Art Spectrum Colourfix Primer is a fine tooth, quick drying acrylic primer which bonds agressively to practically any clean, dry surface - all types of papers (300 gsm or heavier recommended), canvas, card, ply, plastic, glass, timber, ceramic and metal. Art Spectrum Colourfix Primer can be applied with brushes, sponges, rollers etc. straight from the pot. 20 colours are available, including Natural (Clear). All colours can be intermixed, or tinted with Art Spectrum Inks or Gouache, to create new shades. The Clear Colourfix Primer allows the natural surface or underlying colours to remain visible, whilst providing extra tooth for more overlays. Use Clear and other Art Spectrum Colourfix Primers for mixed media techniques and experimental art and craft works. It can even be used as an adhesive for collage. All colours are available in 250ml pots. Black, White and Clear are also available in 1 litre tubs. Colourfix Primer is a fine tooth surface for oil painting. Size the surface prior to applying Colourfix with a thin layer of acrylic medium or gesso.21 items
Paper
- Canson Mi-Tientes Pastel Pads$43.95
3 itemsStrong and resilient, this 60% cotton French-made paper has two distinct surfaces: texture on one side (perfect for pastel and charcoal), and a smooth finish on the other (for detail work with pencil or ink).
- Canson Mi-Teintes 500 x 650$5.90
50 itemsThe most famous lightfast pastel paper in the world. In heavy weight with rough texture, these 60% cotton papers come in fifty breathtaking pulp-dyed colors that go all the way through. Acid free, they are also excellent for pencil, scrapbooking and papercraft.
Minimum order on this paper is five assorted sheets
- Canson Mi-Tientes A4$1.40
18 itemsThe most famous lightfast pastel paper in the world. In heavy weight with rough texture, these 60% cotton papers come in fifty breathtaking pulp-dyed colors that go all the way through. Acid free, they are also excellent for pencil, scrapbooking and papercraft.
- Colourfix 500 x 700$5.50
20 itemsLightfast, permanent Colourfix paper is an acid-free, 300gsm (140lb.) smooth watercolour paper coated with Art Spectrum Colourfix Primer, a tooth, acrylic based primer that holds multiple layers of pastel without the need for fixative.
Colourfix paper is tough; it can withstand scrubbing, soaking, erasure, in fact all manner of artistic 'punishment'.
- Prism Favina Grey 700 X 500$3.00
- Colourfix 10 Sheets Assorted Warm 9x12
$62.60$50.08Fine tooth pastel and multi-media artists' paper. Coated area approx. 23 x 30cm. Lightfast, Permanent, Acid-free. 340gsm 10 sheets
- Colourfix 10 Sheets Assorted Cool 9x12
$62.60$50.08Fine tooth pastel and multi-media artists' paper. Coated area approx. 23 x 30cm. Lightfast, Permanent, Acid-free. 340gsm 10 sheets
Fixative
- Krylon Gallery Pastel Fixative 11oz$34.40Out of Stock
This spray fixatif offers invisible protection of artwork without dissolving pastel whites and light colors. Provides final and workable protection. It contains UV light absorbers and stabilizers. Safeguards pastel, charcoal, pencil and chalk from dusting, smudging and fading.
- Nuart Workable Fixative 350g
$35.60$28.48Out of StockSpecially formulated for charcoal, pencil or pastel drawings and layouts. Provides compatible surface for rework needs. Gives a clear protective coating to prevent dusting or smudging.
- Krylon Workable Fixative 11oz$24.95Out of Stock
Reworkable clear finish prevents smudging of soft art materials like pencil and pastel.
- Helmar Crystal Kote Fixative 400g$22.95Out of Stock
- Spectrafix Pastel Spray$25.90-$33.95
SpectraFix is a casein-based pastel fixative that utilizes milk protein and grain alcohol to provide a non-toxic, fully archival fixative for pastel, charcoal, conte, watercolor, gouache and multi-media techniques. It holds and protects media without darkening or dulling colors. It can also be used under oil paintings to hold a preliminary charcoal or pencil sketching and provide a barrier between the oil paint and the drawing. It is all natural, odor-free and can be sprayed indoors while without obnoxious odors or unhealthy fumes. 12 oz. non-aerosol pump fine mist plastic spray bottle.2 items
SpectraFix concentrate is available in a 2 oz. bottle, and is reconstituted with alcohol such as Everclear or vodka. Rubbing alcohol can also be used, but due to it's processing with strong sulfuric acid instead of simple distillation, it is less healthy to breathe and is therefore not recommended. The concentrate can also be used to increase the holding strength of the ready-made SpectraFix, and is also great for those who would like a formulation that contains more alcohol for evaporative reasons. The concentrate label has handy gradation lines to facilitate pouring 1/4 of the bottle into the empty spray bottle and topping off with alcohol, as an easy way of getting the standard-use ratios of concentrate to alcohol.
Sets
- Caran d'Ache Neopastel Sets$70.70-$566.204 items
- Gallery Drawing Pastels Set of 6$9.80
Mungyo Gallery Oil Pastels are high grade, non-toxic and made from the finest pigments with brilliant and easy to blend colours. Effective on a range of paper surfaces.
Assorted Colours - Gallery Drawing Pastels Set of 24$41.85
Mungyo Gallery Oil Pastels are high grade, non-toxic and made from the finest pigments with brilliant and easy to blend colours. Effective on a range of paper surfaces.
Assorted Colours - Mungyo Mini Pastel Sets$11.80-$28.804 items
- Stabilo CarbOthello Pastel Pencil Sets$50.40-$247.95
5 itemsFor both fine and commercial artists, CarbOthello pastel pencils are known for their intense pigmentation. They provide excellent performance on thin paper and strong color gradations in application. Light-proof, non-toxic, break-resistant, blendable and water-soluble. A fixative is recommended on finished pieces.
- Das Dreamland Water Soluble Sets$7.00-$13.002 items
- PanPastel Sets$62.50-$266.80
15 itemsPanPastel Colors are the softest pastels in the world. They are genuine artists' quality pastels, uniquely packed in a pan format, so that artists can easily lift, apply and control pastel color, just like true painting.
Each set contains a selection of Sofft Tools.
- Caran d'Ache Neocolor II Watersoluble Crayon Sets$51.00-$541.005 items
- Derwent Pastel Pencil Sets$53.60-$159.003 items
- DAS Dreamland Oil Pastel Sets$6.00-$17.953 items
- Mungyo Square Pastels Sets$13.40-$39.10
5 itemsThese extra soft pastels are formulated from the finest pigments and calcium carbonate to ensure the most brilliant velvet texture possible. Colors are fade resistant and will blend perfectly.
- Gallery Soft Pastels Sets$14.99-$38.993 items
- Gallery Semi Hard Pastel Sets$18.08-$56.703 items
- Faber-Castell Oil Pastel Sets$9.00
1 itemThese collections of colors are very soft and easy to blend, providing smooth color lay-down for rich oil pastel effects. For a student oil pastel, it offers good lightfastness and excellent opacity.
- Art Spectrum Pastel Sets$56.80-$308.20
31 itemsArt Spectrum Pastels are packed with pigment to give you more colour and more value. Only the highest quality ASTM* approved pigments are used to ensure lightfastness. You can be sure that Art Spectrum pastels will always maintain their strength of colour.
- Gallery Jumbo Oil Pastel Sets$11.00-$21.002 items
- Mungyo Charcoal Pastels Set 12$15.60
- Gioconda Soft Pastel Pencil Set of 24$63.99Out of Stock
- Rembrandt Soft Pastel Sets
Pastels Misc
- Mungyo Chalk Holder$3.00
- Chamois Skin 5$4.80
- Tortillons$4.30
More abrasive than stumps, tortillons are excellent for rapid, thin blending on pencil, charcoal or pastel drawings. Comprised of rolled paper, these single-ended, spiral-wound tools are easily sharpened with a sandpaper block. Each package contains six tortillons.4 items - Paper Stumps$0.60-$5.0010 items
- Chalk Holder 5343$23.50
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