These wood cased Pastel Pencils have a soft, powdery texture which produces a velvety smooth finish, ideal for mixing and blending. And because they're pencils, they're clean and easy to control.
Reformulated in 2011 to have a softer texture and smoother laydown
It also makes it easier to move the colour around your drawings using a paper stump, or finger!
The Pastel Pencils sharpen beautifully either with a sharpener, knife or sandpaper block so you can achieve a good point for finer detail
72 vibrant colours are all fully blendable to create a wide range of different hues and tints
Derwent's Carole Massey's Top Tips
Use the side of the pencil for broader areas of colour and the tip for drawing and detailed work.
To blend pastels you can use a paper stump, a rubber shaper or your finger.
Blend several similar colours together to enhance or heighten a colour e.g. two or three blues or greens.
Apply diagonal lines (hatching and cross hatching) of pure colour without blending, this also helps prevent colours becoming ‘muddy'.
Always work with sharp pencils. Use a pastel pencil sharpener or sharpening stand and craft knife to sharpen and a sandpaper block to hone the tip to a fine point.
Hatch large areas with one colour to create an overall harmony or to bring several areas together.
Create interest by varying the marks you make. Use both smooth blended areas as well as directional hatching marks.
Follow the maxim ‘light against dark, dark against light' to increase tonal contrast and bring life to your drawings.
Dab with a kneadable eraser to remove excess pastel or shape it to a point to lift out highlights.
White is more effective used directly on the paper, not over other layers of pastel.
