PanPastel 7-Color Basic Colors Set: The Foundational Technical Palette
The PanPastel Basic Colors Set is a professional-grade entry point into the PanPastel system, providing a high-chroma primary and secondary color wheel alongside essential monochromatic and earth tones. This set is engineered as a complete mixing laboratory, enabling the artist to derive an extensive spectrum of intermediate hues. By utilizing the unique "dry-painting" format, this kit offers the speed of drawing with the color-blending versatility of traditional liquid media, making it the technical standard for artists transitioning into professional pastels.
Key Features and Artistic Benefits
- Universal Primary System: Features high-saturation Hansa Yellow, Permanent Red, and Ultramarine Blue, providing the clean mixing foundations required to create vibrant oranges, purples, and custom greens.
- Structural Depth and Highlights: Includes Black and Titanium White for immediate value control, allowing for high-contrast chiaroscuro effects and the creation of various tints and shades from the base colors.
- Organic Naturalism: The inclusion of Permanent Green and Burnt Sienna provides the essential tones for landscape, botanical, and figurative underpainting.
- Professional Pigment Concentration: Formulated with a maximum load of lightfast pigments and minimal binder, ensuring archival integrity and a velvety matte finish that does not produce a reflective sheen.
- Precision Sofft Tooling: Equipped with a No.3 Painting Knife and Angle Slice Sponge, allowing for both broad, expressive washes and sharp, high-definition detailing.
Application and Technical Guidelines
- Optical and Physical Mixing: Colors can be mixed directly on the applicator or layered on the paper surface. Because of the ultra-soft consistency, you can blend Ultramarine Blue and Permanent Red to create rich, grain-free violets with ease.
- Blocking and Tonal Mapping: Use the Sofft Angle Slice Sponge to quickly cover large areas for skies or backgrounds. The sharp edge of the sponge is ideal for defining the horizon line or large structural forms.
- Value Management: Use Titanium White to "tint" the primary colors for softer atmospheric effects, or Black to "shade" them for deep, receding shadows in still life or portraiture.
- Mixed Media Versatility: This set is an excellent companion for colored pencils or charcoal, allowing for the rapid establishment of core values and color blocks before finishing with fine-line tools.
Technical Specifications
- Product Identification: PanPastel 7-Color Basic Colors Set
- Contents: 7 PanPastel Colors (9 ml each), 1 Palette Tray with Cover, 1 Sponge Bar, 1 Painting Knife (No.3), 2 Knife Covers, 1 Angle Slice Sponge
- Included Colors: Hansa Yellow (220.5), Permanent Red (340.5), Ultramarine Blue (520.5), Permanent Green (640.5), Burnt Sienna (740.5), Black (800.5), Titanium White (100.5)
- Primary Application: Color Theory, Basic Underpainting, Sketching, Mixed Media Foundations
- Product Grade: Professional Artist Quality
