With its soft, velvety texture and high pigment content, the Neopastel oil pastel offers artists, Fine Art teachers and students a flexible medium with strong colours. Neopastel is a must with its huge range of 96 luminous hues, incorporating a wide selection of grey, warm and cold tones. These oil pastels are ideal for techniques such as blending, shading, templates, for impregnating and shading, “fingerwork”, on numerous media (paper, cardboard, canvas, etc.). When used in mixed media pieces these pastels will adhere to dry undercoats such as ink, acrylic, water-based and oil-based paints.

Product features:

• Ultra-high quality oil pastel.
• Water-resistant; can be dissolved in white spirit.
• Soft and velvety texture but does not crumble.
• Highly concentrated pigment, superior covering power.
• Excellent light resistance.
• ASTM D4236 compliant.
• Pastels measurements: 64 mm (length), 9.5 mm (diameter.
• Permanent pigments.
• Developed and made in Switzerland.
• Available in 96 luminous colours.

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Colour Disclaimer. Actual colours may vary since every computer monitor has a different capability to display colours and everyone sees these colours differently. We cannot guarantee that the colour you see accurately portrays the true colour of the product.

Standard Blue Wool Scale
Caran d’Ache provides clear information on the lightfastness (LF) of all 96 colours, ranging from * to ***. Certain colours will remain unaltered for up to 100 years. The lightfastness rating is based on the Blue Wool Scale which measures the resistance of the colours when exposed to light.
Lightfastness:
UV/150hr
*** Excellent
**  Very good
*    Good

Vegan & Cruelty-free product.