Rembrandt Soft Pastel General Selection Deluxe: Comprehensive Tonal Versatility
The Rembrandt Soft Pastel General Selection Deluxe provides an expansive palette of sixty half sticks, offering artists a wide-ranging spectrum of values for professional-grade dry media application. Skilfully crafted in the Netherlands, these pastels are globally recognized for their unique formulas and stringent quality control, ensuring consistent performance for decades. By combining high concentrations of premium pigments with the purest kaolin clay, this deluxe set serves as an ideal bridge between focused studies and full-scale archival compositions.
Key Features and Artistic Benefits
- High Pigment Concentration: Each pastel is formulated with a dense pigment load to provide excellent color transfer, allowing for immediate vibrancy and superior layering capabilities.
- Refined Kaolin Clay Base: Utilizing only the purest types of kaolin ensures a buttery, grit-free texture that facilitates seamless blending and soft transitions across diverse surfaces.
- Maximum Lightfastness: Engineered to the highest archival standards, these colors maintain their original intensity and resist fading, ensuring the longevity of the artist's work.
- Metal-Free Composition: This selection is strictly free of lead, cadmium, and cobalt-based pigments, providing a safer studio environment without compromising the purity of the hues.
- Structural Half-Stick Design: The compact half-stick format offers increased resistance to breakage and precision control for fine architectural details, while remaining soft enough for broad expressive marks.
Included Color Selection
- Deluxe General Selection (60 Half Pastels): 100.5, 201.5, 201.8, 202.5, 202.7, 205.5, 205.8, 227.5, 227.7, 227.9, 231.7, 234.5, 235.5, 235.8, 236.5, 236.9, 318.8, 331.5, 331.7, 372.5, 397.9, 408.5, 408.7, 408.9, 409.5, 409.7, 409.9, 411.5, 411.7, 411.9, 505.9, 506.5, 506.7, 508.7, 536.9, 538.5, 545.3, 545.5, 548.7, 570.5, 618.5, 618.9, 619.5, 620.3, 620.5, 620.7, 626.3, 626.5, 626.9, 627.3, 627.5, 640.7, 640.9, 675.5, 675.8, 700.5, 704.5, 704.8, 727.5, 727.8.
Application and Usage Guidelines
- Layering Precision: Utilize the sharp edges of the half sticks for defining crisp highlights and structural lines, or apply pressure to the flat sides for blocking in large tonal fields.
- Blending Techniques: Achieve sophisticated atmospheric effects by blending colors directly on the substrate with fingertips or soft blending tools, leveraging the smooth kaolin formulation.
- Substrate Selection: For optimal results, apply to high-tooth papers or sanded pastel boards that can capture and retain the dry pigment particles through multiple layers.
- Maintenance of Purity: Keep sticks clean by periodically wiping them with a dry cloth; this prevents cross-contamination and ensures the integrity of each unique formula within the 218-color range.
Technical Specifications
- Product Identification: Rembrandt Soft Pastel General Selection Deluxe
- Quantity and Format: 60 Half-Length Pastels
- Base Chemistry: Pure Kaolin Clay and High-Concentration Premium Pigments
- Safety Profile: Free of Lead, Cadmium, and Cobalt
- Finish: Extra-Fine Matte Velvet
- Manufacturing Origin: The Netherlands
- Dimensions: Half-length sticks approximately 35 mm in length
- Cleanup Requirements: Dry removal from tools; soap and water for skin and non-porous surfaces
