Rembrandt Soft Pastel General Selection Professional: Expansive Tonal Mastery
The Rembrandt Soft Pastel General Selection Professional set provides an extensive palette of ninety half sticks, meticulously curated for artists who demand a comprehensive range of values in a high-density format. Skilfully crafted in the Netherlands, these pastels are globally recognized for their unique formulas and stringent quality control, ensuring consistent performance batch after batch. By utilizing the purest kaolin clay and high concentrations of premium pigments, this set offers the ideal structural integrity and color brilliance required for professional studio work and complex layering.
Key Features and Artistic Benefits
- Superior Pigment Concentration: Each pastel is formulated with high concentrations of premium-quality pigments to provide excellent color transfer, allowing for vibrant, immediate saturation and professional-grade coverage.
- Purest Kaolin Foundation: Based on the finest types of kaolin clay, providing a velvet-smooth, buttery texture that facilitates effortless blending and smooth color transitions without the presence of grit.
- Highest Degree of Lightfastness: Engineered to offer the highest levels of archival permanence, ensuring your creative work remains vibrant and resistant to fading caused by ultraviolet exposure over time.
- Metal-Free Safety Standards: This professional formulation is strictly free of lead, cadmium, and cobalt-based pigments, providing a safer working environment without compromising the intensity of the 218-color system.
- Efficient Half-Stick Format: The compact design increases structural strength to resist breakage while offering a larger variety of colors for detailed architectural work, sharp edges, and controlled highlights.
Available Colors
- Professional General Selection (90 Half Pastels): 100.5, 201.5, 201.7, 201.8, 202.12, 202.3, 202.5, 202.7, 202.9, 205.5, 205.8, 205.9, 227.5, 227.7, 231.10, 231.5, 231.7, 234.5, 235.5, 235.8, 236.5, 236.9, 318.5, 318.8, 331.3, 331.5, 331.7, 343.5, 347.5, 370.7, 371.9, 372.10, 372.5, 397.9, 408.5, 408.7, 408.9, 409.3, 409.5, 409.7, 409.9, 411.3, 411.5, 411.7, 411.9, 505.8, 505.9, 506.3, 506.5, 506.7, 508.7, 508.8, 522.10, 522.3, 522.5, 536.7, 536.9, 538.5, 545.3, 545.5, 548.3, 548.5, 548.7, 570.5, 570.7, 618.5, 618.9, 619.5, 619.9, 620.10, 620.3, 620.5, 620.7, 626.10, 626.3, 626.5, 626.9, 627.3, 627.5, 633.5, 633.9, 640.7, 640.9, 675.5, 675.8, 700.5, 704.5, 704.8, 727.5, 727.8.
Application and Usage Guidelines
- Mark-Making Precision: Utilize the sharp edges of the half-sticks for defining architectural details and crisp highlights, or apply pressure to the flat sides for blocking in larger areas of color.
- Blending Mastery: Leverage the smooth kaolin base to blend colors directly on the substrate with fingertips or soft blending tools to achieve seamless gradients and atmospheric depth.
- Substrate Selection: For optimal results, apply to high-tooth pastel papers, sanded boards, or primed surfaces that provide the necessary grip to hold multiple layers of dry pigment.
- Maintenance of Purity: Protect the integrity of each hue by periodically wiping the sticks with a dry cloth to remove any color contamination from adjacent pastels in the set.
Technical Specifications
- Product Identification: Rembrandt Soft Pastel General Selection Professional Set
- Quantity and Format: 90 Half-Length Pastels
- Base Chemistry: Pure Kaolin Clay and High-Concentration Premium Pigments
- Safety Profile: Free of Lead, Cadmium, and Cobalt-based pigments
- Finish: Extra-Fine Matte Velvet
- Manufacturing Origin: The Netherlands
- Dimensions: Half-length sticks approximately 35 mm in length
- Cleanup Requirements: Dry removal from tools and surfaces; soap and water for skin
