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Pastel Pencils

  • Soft pastel cores encased in wood
  • Ideal for detailing and fine work
  • Use a myriad of blending techniques to create all kinds of lovely finishes
  • Versatile and great fun to use, with rich, bright colours and none of the mess of traditional pastels.
 
Exclusive P4A Selection Tins

Exclusive P4A Selection Tins

How do you describe a colour? Or a texture? When you need to find that ‘perfect brown’ or maybe something a ‘ bit waxier’ how can you make sure you have the pencil you really need?

Now you can take the guesswork out with our new P4A comparison sets. We are offering a unique mix of pencils across different ranges and manufacturers giving a fantastic opportunity to compare the relative qualities of several products

Staedtler Pastel Pencils

Staedtler Pastel Pencils

From their Design Journey range Staedtler offer their set of six pastel pencils in portrait colours.  Includes a lightning pencil.
 Koh I Noor Gioconda Pastel Pencils

Koh I Noor Gioconda Pastel Pencils

It’s not often that you can say that your pencil was forged in a volcano, but that is the case with Koh I Noor soft pastel pencils. A volcanic mineral base called pemza gives these pastels a smooth  and creamy core.

The pencils are dust free and can be sharpened to a fine point for detailing.  Encased in beautiful cedar wood , the pencils are blendable and have a high lightfastness. 

All in all a high quality product for a great price. And did we mention the volcano...? 
Caran D'Ache Pastel Pencils

Caran D'Ache Pastel Pencils

These beautiful pencils display all the quality you would expect from a Caran d’Ache product. The hexagonal barrel is made from Premium FSC certified cedar wood.  A large 4.7mm core unsure a thick, soft and smooth colour laydown perfect for all pastel compositions. The 84 colours are of high pigmentation and have exceptional lighfastness

Conté à Paris Pastel Pencils

Conté à Paris Pastel Pencils

The large diameter of the Conté à Paris Pastel Pencil lead (5mm) gives genuine freedom of creation. With a range of 48 bright colours these pencils should be used as pure colours laid out in a patchwork fashion, side by side, rather than added in successive layers so as not to dull the shades.

Cretacolor Pastel Pencils

Cretacolor Pastel Pencils

Precise and exact - Cretacolor Pastel Pencils come in 72 colours which can be smudged and mixed together to create a huge range of tints and the pencils can be sharpened to a point for more detailed work.  Beautiful, smooth, soft pastel pencils!
Faber Castell Pitt Pastel Pencils

Faber Castell Pitt Pastel Pencils

Faber Castell Pitt Pastel Pencils are lovely, soft pastel pencils in colours from the warm and earth hues which work epscially well in pastel pieces.
 
Stabilo CarbOthello Chalk Pastel Pencils

Stabilo CarbOthello Chalk Pastel Pencils

Stabilo CarbOthello Pastel Pencils have a lovely dry stroke which can be easily blended dry or with water.  With a highly pigmented, 4.4mm core CarbOthello gives a beautiful finish on dark backgrounds as well as on lighter paper.  High levels of lightfastness and great luminosity and opaqueness. 
Derwent Pastel Pencils

Derwent Pastel Pencils

Derwent Pastel Pencils enjoy all the beauty of pastel in a convenient, less messy form.