PanPastel Colors are professional artists’ quality soft pastel colors packed in a unique pan format (cake-like). The special qualities of PanPastel Colors mean that artists can blend and apply dry color like fluid paint for the first time.
Each PanPastel Color is loaded with the highest quality artists’ pigments; and is made using a unique manufacturing process requiring minimal binder, resulting in rich, ultra soft and low dust colors. PanPastel Colors can be mixed for an infinite palette of colors.
Available in 92 professional artists’ quality colors.
• Super-blendable: the pan format and their ultra-soft formulation means that PanPastel Colors blend beautifully for an infinite palette of colors.
• Paintable: for the first time ever artists can apply and mix (dry) pastel color like paint
• Instant: no drying or preparation time needed. Simply lift the color using a Sofft Tool to start painting immediatel
• Easy: no solvents, water or other special mediums are required – use PanPastel colors “dry” for the benefits of wet paint without the hassle.
• Erasable: PanPastel is a very forgiving medium to use – use any eraser to correct mistakes or remove the color. An eraser can also be used to create highlights and for subtractive drawing techniques.
• Versatile: compatible with other artist’s media and almost any art & craft surface (even thin delicate papers as there is no bleed-through or buckling because PanPastel is dry color).
• Control: using Sofft Tools it is easy to control the color, and to achieve a wide variety of marks and effects
• Very low dust: for a cleaner, more pleasant working environment. Generating less waste.
• All colors are independently tested to ASTM Standards for lightfastness.
• Each pan contains 9ml (0.30 fl oz) of color. 40%* more than the average pastel stick, and yielding approx. 4-5 times more coverage. * Average, based on a survey of leading brands.
