Jackson’s Handmade Soft Pastels are high quality, artist grade pastels. There are 200 soft and bright colours in the range, as well as a wide variety of themed selection sets.
Our Soft Pastels are made carefully by hand which makes them very soft with a smooth, buttery consistency. They have a low binder to pigment ratio which makes them rich and luminous, allowing for both subtle and bold mark making.
Their excellent lightfast qualities mean that pastel paintings created with them will not deteriorate over time. The four fluorescent colours are the only exception; like all fluorescent colours, they are not lightfast.
The pastels are made solely from pigments, a bentonite clay binder, and calcium carbonate (chalk). Each pastel measures approximately 55mm in length and 15mm in diameter.
This Portrait Set of 56 pastels contains the following colours: White II (Warm White), Ivory, Vermilion Orange, Apricot Pink, Pink Beige, Rose Grey, Blue Violet, Red Ochre, Soybean, Terra Cotta, Barren Land, Van Dyke Red, Burnt Carmine, Red Brown, Van Dyke Brown, Dark Sienna, Burnt Sienna, Burnt Umber, Dark Red Brown, Violet Brown, Dark Violet, Raw Sienna, Medium Brown, Dark Apricot, Salmon Beige, Deep Apricot, Burnt Ochre, Cinnamon, Warm Ochre, Salmon Orange, Fade Orange, Apricot, Salmon Pink, Medium Apricot, Light Apricot, Pale Peach, Smalt Blue White, Smalt Blue, Dark Cobalt Blue, Fade Cobalt Blue, Deep Ultramarine Blue, Deep Lavender Blue, Light Olive Beige, Light Grey Green, Cream, Light Yellow Ochre, Yellow Ochre, Gold Ochre, Dark Ochre, Warn Grey I, Cool Grey I, Cool Grey VI, Beige, Ashy Brown, Dark Umber, and Black.
