Rembrandt Soft Pastel General Selection: Essential Luminous Foundation
The Rembrandt Soft Pastel General Selection provides a versatile introduction to the world's most widely used professional pastel, featuring fifteen whole sticks designed for comprehensive artistic expression. Skilfully crafted in the Netherlands, these pastels are engineered with unique formulas and undergo rigorous quality control to ensure unparalleled consistency. By utilizing the purest kaolin clay and high concentrations of premium pigments, this set offers the ideal balance of color intensity and blending capability required for professional studio work.
Key Features and Artistic Benefits
- Superior Pigment Loading: Developed with high concentrations of premium-quality pigments to provide exceptional color transfer and immediate vibrancy with every stroke.
- Purest Kaolin Foundation: Formulated using the finest grades of kaolin clay, resulting in a velvet-soft texture that facilitates effortless blending and smooth, grit-free layering.
- Highest Degree of Lightfastness: Each color is designed for maximum archival permanence, ensuring your creative work remains vibrant and resists UV-induced fading for generations.
- Metal-Free Safety: The formulation is strictly free of metal-based pigments, including lead, cadmium, and cobalt, providing a safer creative process without sacrificing visual impact.
- Whole Stick Format: These full-sized sticks offer a substantial physical volume of pigment, making them perfect for broad expressive strokes and sustained professional use.
Included Color Selection
- General Selection (15 Whole Pastels): 100.5, 201.5, 205.8, 227.5, 236.5, 372.5, 409.5, 411.5, 506.5, 548.5, 570.7, 620.7, 627.5, 633.5, 700.5.
Application and Usage Guidelines
- Technique Versatility: Use the flat side of the whole stick for rapid blocking in of large areas, and the edges for defining structural lines and final accents.
- Blending Precision: Achieve sophisticated gradients and soft transitions by blending colors directly on the substrate using fingertips, paper stumps, or a soft dry brush.
- Substrate Recommendations: Best applied to specialized pastel papers, sanded boards, or primed surfaces with sufficient tooth to capture and anchor the dry pigment particles.
- Storage and Maintenance: Keep individual sticks clean by wiping them with a dry cloth periodically; this prevents color contamination and ensures the purity of the 218-color range remains uncompromised.
Technical Specifications
- Product Identification: Rembrandt Soft Pastel General Selection Set
- Quantity and Format: 15 Whole-Length Pastels
- Manufacturing Origin: The Netherlands
- Base Chemistry: Pure Kaolin Clay and High-Concentration Premium Pigments
- Safety Profile: Free of Lead, Cadmium, and Cobalt
- Finish: Extra-Fine Matte Velvet
- Available Range: Part of a professional system featuring 218 intense colors
- Cleanup Requirements: Dry removal from tools and surfaces; soap and water for skin
