PanPastel 10-Color Animal Art Set: Curated by Lisa Ann Watkins
The PanPastel Animal Art Set is a professional-grade collection curated by award-winning artist Lisa Ann Watkins, specifically designed for the intricate requirements of animal portraiture. This set focuses on the foundational earth tones, deep shadows, and luminous highlights necessary to render realistic fur, skin textures, and lifelike eyes. By combining high-concentration pigments with a painterly application method, this kit allows artists to achieve the soft transitions and atmospheric depth essential for high-end wildlife and domestic pet portraits.
Key Features and Artistic Benefits
- Expertly Curated Palette: Features 10 essential colors selected for their utility in animal art, ranging from Raw Sienna for golden fur tones to Payne's Gray and Extra Dark variants for structural shadows.
- Soft, Fur-Like Transitions: The ultra-fine, low-dust pigment formula allows for seamless blending, making it the ideal medium for creating the soft, out-of-focus backgrounds and underpaintings often used in detailed animal studies.
- Advanced Tonal Range: Includes specialized "Extra Dark" and "Tint" formulations, providing the precise values needed to create three-dimensional form and realistic anatomical depth.
- Sofft Tool Integration: The set includes professional painting knives and specialized sponge covers that allow the artist to "draw" with the pigment, providing the control of a pencil with the coverage of a brush.
- Mixed Media Compatibility: These colors are engineered to work perfectly as a base for colored pencil work, allowing artists to block in large areas of color quickly before adding fine hair details on top.
Application and Technical Guidelines
- Establishing Foundational Values: Utilize Titanium White and Black to map out the extreme light and dark points of the portrait, ensuring the underlying structure is sound before applying local color.
- Rendering Fur and Texture: Use the Sofft Angle Slice Sponge to apply broad washes of earth tones like Raw Umber or Red Iron Oxide. The unique shape of the sponge is excellent for carving out muscle groups and broad directional fur flow.
- Detailing with Sofft Knives: The included No.1 and No.3 Painting Knives with covers are perfect for refined work around the eyes and nose, allowing for precise pigment placement in tight areas.
- Archival Organization: The set is housed in a professional Palette Tray with Cover, which protects the pans from cross-contamination and environmental dust, ensuring the pigments remain pure for every session.
Technical Specifications
- Product Identification: PanPastel 10 Animal Art - Lisa Ann Watkins Set
- Contents: 10 PanPastel Colors (9 ml each), 1 Palette Tray, 1 Sponge Bar, 2 Painting Knives, 4 Knife Covers, 1 Angle Slice Sponge
- Included Colors: Violet Shade (470.3), Ultramarine Blue Extra Dark (520.1), Raw Sienna (710.5), Red Iron Oxide Shade (380.3), Burnt Umber Tint (760.8), Raw Umber Extra Dark (780.1), Black (800.5), Payne's Gray (840.3), Titanium White (100.5), Neutral Gray Light (820.7)
- Primary Application: Animal Portraiture, Wildlife Art, Mixed Media Base
- Product Grade: Professional Artist Quality
