Pastels and Oil Pastels

The Best value in compressed charcoal. Smooth and richly black. Twelve chunky, sturdy pieces in a box.

Art Spectrum creamy pastels lay down smoothly and blend beautifully on paper. Their high-quality pigments are triple-milled to bring out the intensity of each color, and their unique square shape allows for broad strokes, gestural marks, and fine details.

Blick Artists' Soft Pastels are now available in half stick sets for twice the colors and twice the creative possibilities! These pastels combine the finest pigments with a minimal amount of binder for a velvety texture, easy lay-down, and consistent coverage.

Blick Square Pastels are brilliant, rich, and made from fine-quality raw materials. They blend easily for a beautiful, smooth texture.

Create vibrant pictures with the Faber-Castell Creative Studio Getting Started Soft Pastel Set. Learn the basic techniques and a variety of mixed media applications with 12 fully illustrated instruction cards.

The Creative Studio Soft Pastels maintain good lightfastness, have excellent color opacity and provide smooth color laydown. These soft pastels possess excellent blending characteristics for a rich pastel effect. Gentle fixing is recommended.

Add a pearlescent sheen to your paintings! These lustrous colors can be mixed with each other and with original PanPastel pastels to create shimmering effects and textures. Like the originals, they're dustless and erasable.

PanPastels were specially developed so that artists could lift, apply, and control pastel color, just like true painting. PanPastels are genuine artist-quality pastels, uniquely packaged in stacking, interlocking jars.

Made with high quality pigments to give them excellent lightfastness and strong vibrant colors, Reeves Soft Pastels are extremely soft and easy to apply. Perfect for color blending and are suitable for use on textured paper or card.

Rembrandt soft pastels are world renowned for their pure pigments, lightfastness and unique warmth. Their consistent softness is due in part to the use of kaolin, a clear china clay to bind the pigment. Meticulous quality control ensures top quality and consistency.

Richeson offers a variety of signature pastel sets for every level of creativity. Use these handmade, half-size, medium-soft pastel sticks to create broad strokes or fine details in your pastel paintings.

Richeson offers a variety of signature pastel sets for every level of creativity. Use these handmade, half-size, soft pastel sticks to create broad strokes or fine details in your pastel paintings.

Hand-to-Hand Pastels: In the hills of Northumberland, England, an artist makes pastels. He mixes pigments in equipment a baker would use. He lightly hand rolls the dough and allows the sticks to air-dry.

Richeson's pastel artisans have achieved what many have reached for, but only a few have attained - a range of professional-quality, pigment-rich, soft pastels at an affordable price.

Schmincke Soft Pastels contain the finest artists' pigments in highest concentration using a minimum of binders. The extreme softness and color of Schmincke pastels demand a very traditional and costly forming process as well as labeling by hand.

Schmincke soft pastels contain the finest artists' pigments in highest concentration using a minimum of binders. The extreme softness and color of Schmincke pastels demand a very traditional and costly forming process as well as labeling by hand.

When only the very best, most complete line will do! Sennelier's extra-fine Soft Pastels, made by hand since 1900, are an artist's dream. They are water-soluble and have an unparalleled pigment intensity.

Terry Ludwig began experimenting with formulating his own pastels in 1995, with a goal of creating an array of pastel colors that were uniformly soft across all densities of hue. The result was a range of intense colors in unique hues that are unavailable elsewhere.

British artist, John Hersey, created this line of handmade pastels by lightly rolling them to softly compress the pigments. The result is fluid color unlike any other pastel.

In the hills of Northumberland, England, an artist makes pastels. He mixes pigments in equipment a baker would use. He lightly hand rolls the dough and allows the sticks to air dry.

These clear, brilliant colors apply smoothly and blend easily and are long lasting and fade resistant. Use on paper, board or canvas. ACMI approved.

Large size oil pastels for students and beginning artists. Use on plain and colored paper, card and canvas. Oil pastels are extremely popular for artists because they can be used in a variety of ways - dry for drawing and sketching, or when used with turpentine they can be blended with a brush.

Reeves Water Soluble Wax Pastels are made with high quality pigments in vibrant, strong colors. These pastels have a smooth, creamy consistency, blend easily, and are ideal for color mixing. Use with water to create watercolor effects by experimenting with different methods.

Expressionist pastels are crafted for young artists and students using extra-fine quality pigments, waxes, and oils. Extremely smooth to apply, high school students, hobbyists and artists can express their spirit with broad strokes, blending colors to build texture and depth.

Based on the first Cray-Pas invented in the 1920s, Expressionist pastels are crafted for young artists and students using extra-fine quality pigments, waxes, and oils.

Based on the original formula developed in the 1920s, Cray-Pas Junior. Artist Oil Pastels were designed specifically for young children. Your young artists will blossom with creamy, smooth color that they can smear, blend, dot, overlap and mix.

The Sennelier Oil Pastel is a product that makes use of the components used in all Sennelier colors, made with top-quality pigments, an extremely pure synthetic binding medium, and mineral wax. This deluxe tiered gift box holds 22 Sennelier Oil Pastels.

Originally created for Pablo Picasso from Parisian master pastel makers, Sennelier in 1949, the exceptionally intense color and creamy texture sets these oil pastels apart from all others. Superior opacity and blending ability makes working with these pastels a real pleasure.

Strikingly intense, particularly soft oil pastel. They work well on paper, board, wood or earthenware. The stick is soft, applies smoothly and has intense color.

Strikingly intense, particularly soft oil pastel. They work well on paper, board, wood or earthenware. The stick is soft, applies smoothly and has intense color.

Cretacolor represents the highest quality in artists' materials. Rich color, highly lightfast. Set contains one each of the following colors: permanent white, sanguine light, bistre, sepia light, sepia dark, van dyck brown, umber, ivory black.

General's Compressed MultiPastel Pastel Chalk sticks are handcrafted using the same formula as the Multi-Pastel chalk pencils and the finest artist pigments.

Prismacolor's Nupastel Soft Pastels are a firm, slightly waxy alternative to soft pastels and oil pastels in a large range of brilliant, lightfast colors. Easy to blend. Choose by sets of assorted colors.

Professional quality, semi-hard, square shaped chalk pastels with superior lightfastness. Richeson Semi-Hard Square Pastels are perfect for underpainting and have great flat edges for shading.