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.

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.

Ideal for an array of drawing applications, Jackson Pastel Sets contain artists' quality, soft, square pastel sticks. Each full-sized set is comes packaged in a plastic tray for protection.

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.

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.

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 are a medium-hard pastel offered in a wide range of brilliant colors and sets.

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.

Van Gogh Hard Pastels are square-shaped, richly pigmented hard pastels ideal for sketching. Convenient and easy to use, these pastels produce very little dust. Use the edge of the stick for tight drawing and the broad side to lay in large areas of color. Each stick measures 2-3/8" (60 mm) long and is 5/16" (8 mm) square.