PanPastel Colours are professional artist grade soft pastel colours in a unique pan format (cake-like); so that they can be mixed and applied like paint. They have very little dust for a cleaner working environment.

PanPastel are made using a unique manufacturing process requiring minimal binder and fillers, resulting in rich, ultra soft and low dust formulations. Only professional artists’ grade pigments are used for the most concentrated colours possible. The colours have excellent lightfastness and are fully erasable.

PanPastel are also excellent for use in a variety of ways as a general dry colour. They are popular for underpaintings and in mixed media works, as well as for tinting mediums, like encaustic artists who use them to tint wax. PanPastel are excellent for hand colouring prints and photographs, and markers can be used on top of them without clogging the nib.

PanPastel are easily portable, however, if dropped the pastel inside may break into separate pieces. Read our blog post for a straightforward way to restore the pastel into one solid pan.