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Rembrandt Soft Pastels

Excellent colour release. Intense and pure colours. Good to highest degree of lightfastness. Very high colouring power due to high concentration of pigment. Free of pigments based on the metals lead, cadmium and cobalt. The complete range consists of 203 colours

Rembrandt Soft Pastel Sets

Rembrandt Artist Soft Pastels - set of 10 half sticks $29.95	Rembrandt Artist Soft Pastels - set of 15 half sticks $67.95	Rembrandt Artist Soft Pastels - set of 30 half sticks $103.95
Rembrandt Artist Soft Pastels - set of 15 full sticks $103.95	Rembrandt Artist Soft Pastels - set of 30 full sticks $187.95

The unique characteristics of Rembrandt soft pastels
Rembrandt soft pastels owe their quality to the close collaboration with professional artists, traditional expertise and more than a century of experience. Each colour is made according to a unique formula and the necessary raw materials go through very strict controls for each new batch. Rembrandt pastels have for many years been the most commonly used pastels in the world.

The composition
The composition of soft pastels is such that the colour on the ground approaches that of pure pigment as much as possible. This is achieved through a combination of pigment, a minimal amount of binder and the purest and softest types of kaolin, also referred to as pipe clay or China clay. The balanced proportion of these ingredients results in an as spontaneous as possible colour transfer and a velvety look.

The right softness
The softness has been chosen in such a way that the pastels easily transfer their colour while at the same time not fall apart or turn to powder.

Tinting strength, colour purity and lightfastness
The Rembrandt pastels owe their very high tinting strength and colour purity to a well-chosen selection of pigments and the pigment concentration. Besides, the pigments determine the lightfastness. Only through a strict selection of the pigments used can the best combination of these properties be achieved.

No harmful pigments
The range is free of pigments based on heavy-metals such as cadmium, lead and cobalt.

Composition of the range
The range consists of 203 colours of a balanced selection across the entire colour range. With the pastel painting technique the colours are mixed in the artwork itself. If too many layers are placed on top of one another the grounds can become saturated and new layers will not be able to adhere. One can therefore not apply layer upon layer. For this reason the range has many intermediate shades with black and white so that dark and light gradations of colour do not have to be mixed. 

The Rembrandt range consists of 44 pure colours (full tones), 41 colours mixed with black and 118 colours mixed with white. The colour number indicates whether a colour has been diluted. Each colour has its own number. With pure colours this number is followed by the code ,5. In the case of pure Lemon yellow the label says 205,5. The intermediate shade with black is indicated by 205,3 and the intermediate shades with an increasing amount of white with a series of increasing numbers. In this case: 205,8, 205,9 and 205,12. Some colours also have the gradations ,7 and ,10. The extra soft white pastel with the name White Supersoft (colour number 101,5) is for applying light accents in the final layers.

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Rembrandt Soft Pastels - individual sticks - $7.45 per pastel