Pastel Supplies

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.

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.

Art Spectrum Artists' Soft Pastel Dark Colours Set of 30 features high quality lightfast pigment pastels.

Art Spectrum Artists' Soft Pastels provides pure, intense, brilliant colours with a rich velvety finish.

Rembrandt Soft Pastels are an artist quality dry pastel with a velvety finish. The combination of pigment, minimal binder and kaolin clay results in an extra soft pastel with pure, intense colour. Rembrandt Soft Pastels are ideal for detailed drawing and covering large areas.

Rembrandt Soft Pastel Sets are also available.

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, watercolour 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.

Art Spectrum Artists' Soft Pastels are made with the highest quality lightfast pigments. They provide pure, intense, brilliant colours with a rich velvety finish. 

Micador Soft Square Pastels are high quality and made from fine ground pigment to produce rich vibrant colours. The square shape of these pastels means that they can’t roll off surfaces and edges can be used for fine detailing.

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.

Outstanding quality soft coloured charcoal pencil, which offers rich intense colour. Stabilo Carbothello Pencils have a day and dusty stroke like charcoal or chalk.

Stabilo Carbothello Pencil colours have high brilliance, high light-fastness and good covering power. Colour lifts off easily with an eraser.

Rembrandt Soft Pastels are an artist quality dry pastel with a velvety finish. The combination of pigment, minimal binder and kaolin clay results in an extra soft pastel with pure, intense colour. Rembrandt Soft Pastels are ideal for detailed drawing and covering large areas.

Micador Water Soluble Oil Pastels offer all the benefits of ordinary oil pastels with the added feature of water solubility, allowing you to create vibrant watercolour effects.

Perfect for use with watercolour paper or pastel paper.

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.