Rembrandt Soft Pastel Portrait Selection: Master-Level Figurative Expression
The Rembrandt Soft Pastel Portrait Selection offers an expansive professional palette of ninety whole sticks, specifically engineered for the uncompromising figurative artist. Skilfully crafted in the Netherlands, these pastels are globally recognized for their unique formulas and stringent quality control, ensuring consistent performance for master-level works. By combining high concentrations of premium pigments with the purest types of kaolin clay, this set provides the delicate tonal range and buttery texture necessary for capturing the warmth, depth, and anatomical precision of the human form.
Key Features and Artistic Benefits
- Superior Pigment Concentration: Developed with exceptionally high pigment loads to ensure excellent color transfer and immediate vibrancy, facilitating the efficient building of rich, luminous skin tones.
- Purest Kaolin Clay Foundation: Formulated with the finest kaolin to provide a grit-free, velvet-smooth consistency that allows for the seamless blending and soft transitions required for realistic portraiture.
- Maximum Lightfastness: Each color is designed to provide the highest degrees of archival lightfastness, ensuring that subtle highlights and complex shadows remain preserved against UV degradation.
- Safe, Metal-Free Composition: This professional selection is entirely free of lead, cadmium, and cobalt-based pigments, providing a safer studio environment without compromising the purity or intensity of the hues.
- Substantial Whole Stick Format: The ninety whole-length sticks provide a significant volume of pigment, ideal for broad expressive coverage of the figure and sustained professional usage.
Available Colors
- Portrait Selection (90 Whole Pastels): 100.5, 201.5, 202.12, 202.5, 202.7, 202.9, 205.5, 205.8, 205.9, 227.10, 227.5, 227.7, 231.3, 231.5, 231.7, 231.8, 231.9, 234.9, 236.3, 236.5, 236.9, 318.5, 318.8, 331.3, 331.5, 331.7, 331.8, 339.3, 339.5, 339.7, 339.9, 343.3, 343.5, 343.7, 347.3, 347.5, 347.7, 347.9, 370.7, 370.9, 372.5, 372.9, 397.10, 397.3, 409.5, 409.8, 411.5, 411.9, 505.5, 505.7, 505.9, 506.3, 506.5, 506.7, 508.5, 508.7, 522.3, 522.5, 536.7, 536.9, 538.10, 538.5, 545.3, 545.5, 545.7, 545.8, 548.3, 548.5, 570.3, 570.5, 570.9, 618.5, 620.3, 620.5, 620.8, 626.10, 626.5, 627.5, 633.7, 640.7, 640.9, 675.5, 675.8, 700.5, 704.7, 704.8, 707.7, 709.9, 727.5, 727.7.
Application and Usage Guidelines
- Tonal Layering: Utilize the mid-tones to establish the primary planes of the face, then layer lighter tints for highlights and deep umbers for recessed shadows to create sculptural three-dimensional depth.
- Blending for Realism: Leverage the buttery kaolin base to blend colors directly on the substrate with fingertips or soft blenders to achieve smooth, photorealistic skin textures.
- Substrate Selection: For optimal pigment retention, use specialized high-tooth papers or sanded pastel supports that can hold multiple layers of dry pigment effectively.
- Stray Pigment Management: Maintain the purity of your palette by periodically cleaning the surface of the whole sticks with a dry cloth to prevent color contamination between hues.
Technical Specifications
- Product Identification: Rembrandt Soft Pastel Portrait Selection Set
- Quantity and Format: 90 Whole-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
- Cleanup Requirements: Dry removal from tools and surfaces; soap and water for skin and non-porous surfaces
