Working with Schmincke’s finest extra soft pastels will give you a completely unique drawing experience. They have an incredibly high concentration of premium pigments held together by the absolute minimum amount of binding agent - just enough to ensure that they remain a stable compound. Unlike many pastels on the market, they also do not contain chalk or additives, which helps keep their colouration pure and consistent throughout each pastel.
This stripped-back recipe results in such soft pastels that Schmincke had to design an exacting manufacturing process to stop them from breaking. Each lump of pre-kneaded pastel dough is rolled into rounded skeins, which are sectioned by hand and laid onto a sheet. The skeins are then cut by hand with a wire-strung frame and transferred onto wooden palettes, where they are left to dry for around 2 weeks. By this time, they are so soft that they need to be wrapped by hand and gently placed in their foam packaging. Each pastel is covered in an information sheet that denotes its colour name, number, and grade of graduation:
B - the black graduation
D - the pure colour
H - the darkest white graduation
M - the medium white graduation
O - the lightest white graduation
The Schmincke Soft Pastel Neon Set of 3 contains the following colours:
- 971 Neon Yellow
- 972 Neon Orange
- 974 Neon Magenta
