Pastels are usually all about getting your hands dirty but not with Derwent Pastel Pencils. The wide colour strip is powdery and soft so mixing and blending are really easy and because it is encased in wood you get the pastel effect without the mess (if you can resist using your fingers to blend!). Create detailed drawings and sketches with Derwent Pastel Pencils that are easy to blend. Naturally water-soluble, they’re ideal for portraiture and life studies.

View our range of Derwent Pastel Single Pencils.

Product features:

• Easy to control for accurate drawing with less mess.
• Vast range of colours available allows artists to layer colours on top of each other to create new tints and hues.
• Pencils have a 4mm wide core and round 8mm diameter barrel.
• Ideal for creating crisp, fine lines and detailed pastel studies.
• Soft and blendable, the very fine powdery texture is ideal for both loose and detailed work.
• Pastel is a naturally water-soluble medium and can be used with water to create light washes.
• Available assorted sets of 12, 24, 36, 72 and a Pastel skin tones Set of 12.

Alternatively, Derwent’s uniquely formulated Pastel Shades Paints – comprised of contemporary, light shades – can be applied delicately for a soft, light wash, are soft and light. They can be layered for a brighter finish, without dissolving previously dried layers, or used with Derwent’s Inktense and Metallic paint sets to create dramatic effects.

Product features:

• Gouache style pigmented paint within a palette formulation, in soft and playful pastel shades.
• Layer up in thick opaque layers allowing the colour to dry as a bright, matte finish.
• Portable – Ideal for travel and outdoor use with everything needed to paint on the go.
• Set contains 12 Pastel Shades paint pans, a mini waterbrush, and 6 mixing palettes.
• Colour included in the set: Lemon, Peach, Coral Pink, Pink Flamingo, Orchid Pink, Lavender, Cornflower Blue, Turquoise, Mint, Artichoke, Storm Grey and Silver Blue.

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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.

LF – Lightfastness rating (6 – GOOD, 7 – VERY GOOD, 8 – EXCELLENT)

Derwent uses the Blue Wool test (ISO 105) to evaluate lightfastness. Lightfastness refers to the chemical stability of a pigment under long exposure to light.

A scale of 1-8 is obtained, with values of 6 or higher being considered to be highly lightfast and, under museum conditions, will not fade for 100+ years.

Vegan-friendly product.