Rembrandt Soft Pastel General Selection: Professional Luminous Breadth
The Rembrandt Soft Pastel General Selection provides a comprehensive set of thirty whole sticks, serving as a versatile foundation for professional artists seeking an expansive range of values. Skilfully crafted in the Netherlands, these pastels leverage unique formulas and rigorous quality control to maintain their status as the world’s most widely used professional-grade dry media. By combining the purest types of kaolin clay with high concentrations of premium-quality pigments, this set ensures a velvety application and exceptional color brilliance suitable for full-scale studio compositions.
Key Features and Artistic Benefits
- Superior Pigment Loading: Formulated with exceptionally high concentrations of premium pigments to provide excellent color transfer, allowing for rich saturation and effortless layering.
- Refined Kaolin Clay Base: Based on the purest kaolin available to ensure a consistent, buttery texture that is entirely grit-free, facilitating seamless blending and a professional finish.
- Highest Degree of Lightfastness: Each unique color formula is engineered for maximum archival permanence, ensuring that artwork remains vibrant and resistant to fading over centuries.
- Safe, Metal-Free Composition: This selection is free of metal-based pigments, including lead, cadmium, and cobalt, providing a safer working environment without compromising the intensity of the hues.
- Expressive Whole Stick Format: The full-length sticks provide a substantial physical surface area, ideal for broad expressive marks, large-scale color blocking, and sustained professional use.
Included Color Selection
- General Selection (30 Whole Pastels): 100.5, 201.5, 202.5, 205.5, 205.8, 227.5, 235.9, 236.5, 331.5, 339.7, 372.5, 408.7, 409.5, 411.5, 506.5, 506.7, 508.7, 545.5, 548.5, 570.7, 619.5, 620.3, 620.7, 626.7, 627.5, 633.5, 640.7, 700.5, 704.8, 709.7.
Application and Usage Guidelines
- Technique Versatility: Utilize the broad sides of the whole sticks for rapid coverage of large background planes, and the edges for defining structural lines and architectural details.
- Blending and Gradation: The soft consistency of the kaolin allows for effortless blending with fingertips or specialized blending tools, making it easy to create smooth, atmospheric gradients.
- Substrate Choice: For maximum pigment adhesion, use specialized high-tooth papers or sanded supports that can hold the dry particles effectively through multiple layers.
- Maintenance of Purity: Keep the sticks in their original packaging to prevent breakage; clean individual sticks with a dry cloth periodically to remove color contamination from adjacent pigments.
Technical Specifications
- Product Identification: Rembrandt Soft Pastel General Selection Set
- Quantity and Format: 30 Whole-Length Pastels
- Manufacturing Origin: The Netherlands
- Base Chemistry: Pure Kaolin Clay and 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 surfaces; soap and water for skin
