Jackson's Handmade Soft Pastel Sets feature high quality, artist-grade pastels in a wide variety of themed and essential selections and the range features 200 colours.
Our Soft Pastels are made carefully by hand which makes them very soft with a smooth, buttery consistency. They have a low binder to pigment ratio, which makes them rich and luminous, allowing for both subtle and bold mark-making.
Their excellent lightfast qualities mean that pastel paintings created with them will not deteriorate over time. The four fluorescent colours are the only exception; like all fluorescent colours, they are not lightfast.
The pastels are made solely from pigments, a bentonite clay binder, and calcium carbonate (chalk). Each pastel measures approximately 55mm in length and 15mm in diameter.
This Starter Set of 56 pastels contains the following colours: White I (Cool White), White II (Warm White), Ivory, Lemon Yellow (Daffodil Yellow), Deep Yellow, Vermilion Orange, Deep Orange, Red, Apricot Pink, Wine Red, Deep Vermilion, Rose Grey, Pure Lavender, Laterite, Red Oxide, Red Brown, Burnt Sienna, Dark Red Brown, Fade Violet, Raw Sienna, Dark Apricot, Light Apricot, Smalt Blue White, Smalt Blue, Pale Cobalt Blue, Light Cobalt Blue, Cobalt Blue, Lavender Violet Blue (Blue Bell), Deep Ultramarine Blue, Light Lime Yellow, Olive Beige, Yellowish Green Field, Light Grey Green, Mild Green, Powder Lime Blue, Powder Blue, Light Blue, Light Ultramarine Blue, Greenish Lemon, Viridian, Chromium Oxide Green, Dark Olive Green, Light Yellow Ochre, Yellow Ochre, Gold Ochre, Yellowish Olive Green, Khaki, Green Tea, Olive Green (Ivy Leaf), Warm Grey I, Cool Grey I, Cool Grey II, Cool Grey III, Beige, Dark Umber, and Black.
