Rembrandt Soft Pastel General Selection: Professional Luminous Breadth
The Rembrandt Soft Pastel General Selection provides a comprehensive set of forty-five whole sticks, serving as a versatile foundation for professional artists seeking an expansive range of values. Skilfully crafted in the Netherlands, these world-renowned pastels leverage unique formulas and rigorous quality control to maintain their status as the industry standard. 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 entirely 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 (45 Whole Pastels): 100.5, 201.7, 202.12, 202.5, 202.9, 205.5, 205.9, 227.3, 227.5, 231.5, 236.5, 236.9, 331.3, 331.5, 370.7, 370.9, 372.5, 372.8, 409.3, 409.5, 409.9, 411.5, 505.7, 505.9, 506.3, 506.5, 508.7, 545.5, 545.7, 548.3, 548.5, 548.8, 570.5, 570.7, 570.9, 618.5, 618.9, 619.3, 619.5, 620.5, 620.8, 633.5, 633.9, 700.5, 704.7.
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: 45 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 surfaces; soap and water for skin and non-porous surfaces
