Rembrandt Soft Pastel Landscape Selection: Atmospheric Natural Brilliance
The Rembrandt Soft Pastel Landscape Selection is a professionally curated collection of thirty whole sticks, specifically designed to capture the shifting light and organic complexity of the natural world. Skilfully crafted in the Netherlands, these pastels have remained the global industry standard for years due to their rigorous quality control and unique individual formulas. By combining high concentrations of premium pigments with the purest kaolin clay, this set provides the essential earth tones, botanical greens, and celestial blues required for masterful landscape compositions.
Key Features and Artistic Benefits
- High Pigment Concentration: Each stick is loaded with premium-quality pigments to ensure excellent color transfer and immediate vibrancy, allowing artists to build rich, luminous layers with ease.
- Refined Kaolin Clay Foundation: Based on the purest types of kaolin, these pastels offer a velvet-smooth, buttery consistency that facilitates seamless blending and soft transitions in sky and water elements.
- Maximum Lightfastness: Every formula is engineered to provide the highest degrees of archival lightfastness, ensuring that the subtle nuances of your landscape remain unchanged by UV exposure over time.
- Safety-Conscious Formulation: Entirely free of metal-based pigments, including lead, cadmium, and cobalt, providing a safer studio experience while maintaining professional-grade intensity.
- Substantial Whole Stick Format: The full-length sticks provide a significant volume of pigment, ideal for broad expressive strokes, large-scale color blocking, and sustained professional use.
Available Colors
- Landscape Selection (30 Whole Pastels): 100.5, 202.5, 202.9, 205.5, 234.5, 236.5, 347.9, 371.3, 371.8, 372.5, 408.7, 409.5, 411.8, 505.8, 505.9, 506.5, 506.7, 522.10, 522.5, 545.5, 548.3, 548.5, 618.5, 619.5, 620.5, 620.7, 627.5, 633.5, 700.5, 707.8.
Application and Usage Guidelines
- Technique Versatility: Utilize the flat side of the stick for rapid coverage of fields and skies, or use the edges to define structural details like branches and rocky outcrops.
- Blending for Depth: Leverage the soft consistency to blend colors directly on the substrate using fingertips or blending stumps, perfect for creating atmospheric perspective and soft horizons.
- Substrate Choice: For optimal results, apply to specialized high-tooth papers or sanded boards that are designed to capture and hold multiple layers of dry pigment particles.
- Archival Maintenance: Periodically clean the surface of individual sticks with a dry cloth to prevent cross-contamination and ensure the purity of the 218-color range remains intact.
Technical Specifications
- Product Identification: Rembrandt Soft Pastel Landscape Selection Set
- Quantity and Format: 30 Whole-Length Pastels
- Base Chemistry: Pure Kaolin Clay and High-Concentration Premium Pigments
- Finish: Extra-Fine Matte Velvet
- Safety Profile: Free of Lead, Cadmium, and Cobalt
- Manufacturing Origin: The Netherlands
- Cleanup Requirements: Dry removal from tools and surfaces; soap and water for skin and non-porous surfaces
