PanPastel 80-Color Full Range Set: The Ultimate Professional Pigment System
The PanPastel 80-Color Set represents the complete technical catalog of original PanPastel hues and mediums. This comprehensive collection is engineered for the professional studio, providing an exhaustive tonal library that covers the full chromatic spectrum—including pure hues, tints, shades, and extra darks. By consolidating the entire range into a unified system, this set eliminates the limitations of smaller palettes, allowing for absolute precision in color matching, atmospheric rendering, and complex underpainting for fine art, illustration, and mixed media.
Key Features and Artistic Benefits
- Comprehensive 80-Color Spectrum: Includes the full array of 20 core colors, each provided in its pure hue alongside its calibrated Tint, Shade, and Extra Dark variations, ensuring a perfect 4-step value ladder for every major pigment.
- Advanced Structural Darks & Grays: Features a robust selection of Extra Darks and a complete Neutral Gray value scale, facilitating high-contrast chiaroscuro and sophisticated tonal mapping without chromatic flattening.
- Specialized Technical Mediums: Equipped with the Colorless Blender and both Pearl Medium - White FINE and Black FINE, offering the mechanical means to manipulate transparency, introduce iridescence, and extend pigments for glazing.
- Maximum Pigment Density: Each pan is formulated with the highest professional-grade pigment load and minimal binder, resulting in an ultra-soft, "dry-paint" consistency that offers immediate coverage and archival lightfastness.
- Master Sofft Tooling Collection: Includes a massive selection of Painting Knives, Knife Covers, Angle Slice Sponges, and Mini Applicators, providing the full mechanical versatility required for everything from gestural underpaintings to microscopic detail work.
Application and Technical Guidelines
- Total Value Management: With the full range of Tints (.8) and Extra Darks (.1) available, artists can execute flawless gradients and 3D modeling by simply selecting the mathematically adjacent value in the pan tray.
- Glazing and Optical Mixing: Utilize the Colorless Blender to thin out high-saturation pigments like Phthalo Blue or Permanent Red, creating translucent glazes that allow underlying layers to contribute to the final optical color.
- Sophisticated Neutralization: Use the extensive range of earth oxides and grays to neutralize high-chroma colors, allowing for the creation of thousands of custom "muted" tones essential for realism and atmospheric perspective.
- High-Volume Studio Organization: The set is housed in 4 stackable palette trays with secure covers, protecting the purity of the pigments and providing a streamlined, ergonomic workspace for large-scale commissions.
Technical Specifications
- Product Identification: PanPastel 80-Color Full Range Set
- Contents: 80 PanPastel Colors (9 ml each), 4 Palette Trays with Covers, 4 Sofft Painting Knives, 16 Knife Covers, 1 Big Oval Sponge, 2 Angle Slice Sponges, 8 Mini Applicators, 4 Sponges, 1 Applicator with Replaceable Heads
- Included Series: Full Core Hues, Tints, Shades, Extra Darks, Grays, and Technical Mediums
- Primary Application: Professional Fine Art, Large-Scale Portraiture, Complex Landscapes, Master-Level Illustration
- Product Grade: Professional Artist Quality
