Schmincke Soft Pastels

Description

Working with Schmincke’s finest extra-soft pastels leads you back to the origin of colour and is a real painting experience rather than simple drawing. They contain only the purest medium fine ground artists’ pigments, which are in the highest possible concentration. Contrastingly, the binding agent content, is kept to a minimum, which ensures a stable compound. In order to guarantee the highest quality it is nece ssary to manufacture Schmincke pastels using special recipes which avoid the use of machinery
during manufacture. “Worm extruders” form the pre-kneaded dough into round skeins, which are then detached by hand and cut in a wire-strung frame. The damp sticks have to dry for around eight days before they can be labelled and packed by hand. This is a costly and time consuming process, how ever it is the only way Schmincke can guarantee homogenous quality and smoothness in all the production cycles, in order that the artist can be assured that his favourite colour shade is consistant throughout our range of finest extra-soft artists’ pastel colours. The complete assortment includes 400 colours. 75 of these are available in 5 different graduations which is illustrated in the colour chart: pure colour (D), black graduation (B) and 3 grades of white graduations (H,M,O). The harmonius assortment is completed with 10 grey shades, 5 special dark shades, gold, silver 2 blacks, white and 5 special pearl lustre shades for special effects. This variety of colours is also one of the quality characteristis of Schmincke finest, extra-soft artists‘ pastels.