Box of Schmincke portrait pastels

Box of 15 extra soft pastels specially designed for portraits.

Schmincke's pastels hark back to the origins of color. The extra soft pastel sticks are composed exclusively of the best pigments and a minimum amount of binders to allow a perfect bonding of even medium-fine pigments.

Its manufacture is based on a very complex traditional procedure: screw presses shape the dough into round balls that are later collected by hand and cut to the necessary length. The bars, still wet, have to be air-dried for 8 days.

Due to their very fine composition, machine processing is not possible, as they could break.

Each stick is individually handcrafted with high-quality, highly concentrated pigments for exceptionally strong color application.

It has a high resistance to light.

Colours included: 014 D gold ochre, 016 O flesh ochre, 014 O gold ochre, 021 O Pozzuoli earth, 018 H burnt Sienna, 022 D English red, 040 H vermilion, 047 B rose madder, 057 D bluish violet, 002 O permanent yellow 1 lemon, 083 H Bohimian green, 093 M greenish gray 1, 036 B Vandyke brown and 038 B walnut brown.

Contains 15 bars of extra soft cake.

It is recommended to work on specific paper for pastels or paper for halftones.

Brand: Schmincke.