Rembrandt Soft Pastel Wooden Box Set Landscape Selection Deluxe: Evocative Natural Vistas
The Rembrandt Soft Pastel Landscape Selection Deluxe is a meticulously curated collection of sixty whole sticks, specifically assembled to capture the nuanced shifting light and organic palettes of the natural world. Skilfully crafted in the Netherlands, these pastels are globally renowned for their unique formulas and strict quality control, ensuring that each batch meets the demands of professional landscape artists. By utilizing the purest kaolin clay and high concentrations of premium-quality pigments, this set provides the textural versatility required for everything from soft atmospheric hazes to rugged topographical details.
Key Features and Artistic Benefits
- High Pigment Concentration: Formulated with a dense pigment load to deliver excellent color transfer, allowing artists to achieve deep saturation and vibrant highlights with minimal pressure.
- Purest Kaolin Clay Base: The inclusion of refined kaolin provides a smooth, buttery consistency that facilitates effortless blending, essential for creating seamless sky gradients and soft foliage.
- Maximum Lightfastness: Each color is engineered to offer the highest degree of lightfastness, ensuring that the subtle shifts in a landscape painting remain preserved against UV degradation for generations.
- Metal-Free Formulation: This professional selection is free of metal-based pigments, including lead, cadmium, and cobalt, providing a safer working environment without sacrificing the intensity of the earth and sky tones.
- Specialized Landscape Palette: The selection of 60 whole sticks focuses on the essential greens, blues, and earth tones required for realistic and expressive plein air or studio landscape work.
Available Colors
- Landscape Selection (60 Whole Pastels): 100.5, 201.5, 201.7, 202.5, 202.7, 205.12, 205.5, 227.5, 227.7, 227.9, 231.7, 234.5, 236.5, 236.9, 318.8, 331.5, 370.5, 370.7, 372.5, 397.7, 397.9, 408.10, 408.5, 408.7, 409.5, 409.7, 409.9, 411.10, 411.5, 411.7, 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, 627.3, 627.5, 633.9, 640.7, 640.9, 675.5, 675.8, 700.5, 704.5, 704.8, 727.5, 727.8.
Application and Usage Guidelines
- Layering and Depth: Start with broad strokes using the side of the whole stick to establish underpaintings, then build layers of increasing pressure to create physical texture in the foreground.
- Blending and Softening: Utilize the soft texture of the kaolin base to blend colors directly on the substrate with a finger or blending tool, perfect for rendering water reflections or distant mountains.
- Substrate Selection: For the best pigment retention, use high-quality pastel paper, sanded boards, or primed surfaces with a pronounced tooth.
- Storage and Care: Protect the integrity of the whole sticks by storing them in the provided luxurious wooden box, which prevents breakage and shields the pigments from dust.
Technical Specifications
- Product Identification: Rembrandt Soft Pastel Wooden Box Set Landscape Selection Deluxe
- Contents: 60 Whole Pastels
- Manufacturing Origin: The Netherlands
- Base Chemistry: Pure Kaolin Clay and High-Concentration Premium Pigments
- Safety Standards: Free of Lead, Cadmium, and Cobalt-based pigments
- Finish: Extra-Fine Matte
- Packaging: Luxurious Finished Wood Box
- System Compatibility: Part of the 218-color Rembrandt range available in whole and half sticks
- Cleanup Requirements: Dry removal from tools; soap and water for skin
