Pastels

Art Spectrum Extra Soft Pastels are square shaped. Use the flat edge to apply colour quickly to large areas. Use the pointed corners to add detail. Made from high quality lightfast pigments, artist quality. Intense colours. Use with pastel paper, medium to heavy weight cartridge paper or a good quality watercolour paper for best results.

Conte Carres Crayons contain a unique formulation. They are harder than soft pastels, so create little dust. The colours in the range are rich and vivid and they mix together well. Their opacity means colours pop on darker papers.

The square shape allows for colour blocking by using the side, or detail work using the corners. Use on many drawing surfaces, such as pastel paper, cartridge paper or newsprint.

Conte Crayons have a rich, vivid colour range perfect for colouring and sketching. They are harder than most pastels and charcoal, making them ideal for detailed line work as well as colouring larger areas. Conte Crayons have a strong opacity, and are suitable for work on darker papers as well as light.

Conté à Paris Pastel Pencils are rich in pigment and have a very fine, smooth lead. Larger than most other pastel pencils, they can be used for creating blocks of colour, shading and detail. Conté à Paris Pastel Pencils are pre-sharpened and a great companion to Conte Soft Pastels.

Conte A Paris Pastel Pencils are suitable for fine detail as well as laying down large areas of colour. Their fine lead easily sharpens to a fine point, while also moving smoothly across large areas.

Get the best results using with a quality pastel paper or medium texture cartridge or also watercolour paper. Perfect for sketching, potrait or landscape designs as well as colouring in.

An extremely versatile medium, Derwent Inktense Blocks can be used wet or dry to create deep, intense colour washes. Combining the brilliance of Derwent Inktense Pencils with the freedom of blocks, Derwent Inktense Blocks are ideal for layering, free marking, covering large areas and use on silk, cotton, canvas and paper. Once dry the colour is permanent and you can work over the top of it.

Derwent Inktense Blocks are

• water soluble for a vibrant ink effect.
• permanent for use on fabrics like silk and cotton
• easy to blend and can be mixed with water to create translucent, ink-like effects

Before using Derwent Inktense Blocks, get to know the basics of watercolour with our Getting to Know the Techniques and Basics of Watercolour guide. Mixing watercolour ratios can be difficult and while Derwent Inktense Blocks make painting in colour easy, it pays to have a good grip on watercolour and how to mix and use watercolour mediums effectively.

Buy yourself a watercolour journal and get started on your Inktense colour journey.

These wood-cased Derwent Pastel Pencil Sets allow you to enjoy all the beauty of working with pastels while keeping your hands responsibly clean.

Offering a soft, powdery and velvet-smooth finish, Derwent Pastel Pencil Sets are ideal for colour mixing and blending.

Theses pastel colour pencils are perfect for colouring in and drawing.

Faber-Castell's Pitt Pastel Pencils are very suitable for lines, shading, and delicate color transitions, and also for extended areas. Use them for sketches, studies, portraits, still-life and landscape drawings. They give a smooth flow of color without being used up too rapidly. Colours are rich in pigment, allowing dense shading. Faber-Castell Pitt Pastel Pencils do not change on fixing or exposure to light.
Wood-cased Faber-Castell Pitt Pastel Pencils do not dirty the fingers, and the leads are free of oils. They can easily be wiped to merge areas of colours, which means that they must then be fixed to protect the drawing. Pencils are pre-sharpened. Individual light fastness ratings are printed on each pencil's casing.

General's Chalk Sticks Set contain pastels that are earth toned chalk sticks that are handcrafted using the finest pigments.

Koh-I-Noor Toison d'Or Round Pastels are designed for both artists and students in a variety of bright colours and subtle shades.

Made from quality pigments, they are smooth and soft and suitable for use on pastel paper, water colour paper and drawing paper.

Koh-I-Noor Toison d'Or Round Pastels are ideal for wet and dry applications. Each stick is 10mm diameter x 75mm, individually wrapped.

Micador Large Metallic Oil Pastels offer extremely high pigment content for strong rich colours that have a buttery composition and can be mixed in layers or applied heavily.

Features a soft and smooth binder for easy laydown and exceptional blending.

Micador Large Oil Pastels offer extremely high pigment content for strong rich colours that have a buttery composition and can be mixed in layers or applied heavily.

Features a soft and smooth binder for easy laydown and exceptional blending.