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Soft pastel supplies
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items These are the soft pastel supplies that I use to create my wildlife art.
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Soft Pastel Sticks
Pastel Pencils
Pastel Surfaces
Pastel Accessories
Soft Pastel Sticks
My favourite brands of soft pastel
Rembrandt soft pastels have been my favourite soft pastels for many years.
Rembrandt soft pastels | Official website - Royal Talens
Schmincke soft pastels are a premium range of beautiful pastels that are available in a huge range of colours. They are luxurious to use and well worth the investment.
Schmincke : Soft Pastels
Sennelier soft pastel sets are one of the most popular ranges available. They produce brilliant, rich and lightfast colour. Wonderful to use.
Sennelier Soft Pastels and Sets
Conté Colour Crayons are hard pastels that are not as crumbly as soft pastels making them ideal for finer detail. I often use them near the end of a pastel artwork to achieve fine, crisp lines.
Conté à Paris : Carres : Colour Crayons
Pan pastels are fabulous for creating backgrounds and covering large areas of the paper. They can create wonderful, smooth effects.
Pan Pastel Sets | Jackson's Art
Pastel Pencils
Pastel pencils are great for adding fine detail
Derwent pastel pencils have a softer and more powdery feel to them. They have a great range of colours. I use them quite a lot
Pastel Pencils | Derwent UK
Faber-Castell make some of the finest art materials in the world and their pastel pencils are excellent quality and come in a large range of colours.
Pitt Artists' Pastel Pencils - Faber-Castell
These pastel pencils are wonderful to use. They keep a sharp point and the colours are rich. Not too powdery either.
Chalk-pastel pencil STABILO CarbOthello
Pastel Surfaces
My own favourite surfaces for pastel
This is a fine grit sanded paper that works perfectly to build up layers of pastel. I use it for all my pastel art.
UART Premium Sanded Paper for pastel, colored pencil & charcoal
Clairefontaine Pastelmat is one of the most popular surfaces used by pastel artists. Available in a range of colours, it has a velvet like surface. A great paper to work on.
Clairefontaine : Pastelmat Pastel Paper Sheets : 360 gsm
If you prefer a more rigid surface to work on then these Uart pastel boards are ideal. Premium sanded paper is affixed to a lightweight PVC backing board. A great, sturdy surface to work on.
UArt Premium Sanded Pastel Paper Boards
Pastel Accessories
Various accessories to help your pastel art
These silicone shapers are great for blending and helping to achieve fine points. They work great with soft pastels, charcoal or graphite powder.
Jackson's : Silicone Shaper Brush Packs
Blending stumps can be extremely useful for achieving smooth transitions in your pastel work. They are great for charcoal and graphite as well.
Caran dAche Blending Stump
This Derwent pastel and charcoal sharpener is ideal for getting a fine point on your pastel pencils.
Derwent : Sharpener : Pastel & Charcoal Pencils
These wooden pastel boxes by Schmincke are ideal for storing your collection of pastels in. They come in a variety of sizes.
Schmincke : Wooden Pastel Boxes
Glassine paper is great for protecting and storing pastel artwork.
Glassine Interleaving Paper (40gsm) | Cowling & Wilcox Ltd.