Empty wooden box for 15 pastels.

Working with Schmincke’s finest extra soft pastels will give you a completely unique drawing experience. They have an incredibly high concentration of top quality pigment powder held together by the absolute minimum amount of binding agent - just enough to ensure that they remain a stable compound. Unlike many pastels on the market they also do not contain chalk or additives which helps keep their colouration pure and consistent throughout each pastel. This stripped back recipe results in such soft pastels that Schmincke had to design a costly and time consuming manufacturing process to stop them breaking. Each lump of pre-kneaded pastel dough is rolled into rounded skeins which are sectioned by hand and laid onto a sheet. The skeins are then cut by hand with a wire-strung frame and transferred onto wooden palettes where they are left to dry for around 2 weeks. By this time they are so soft that they need to be wrapped by hand and gently placed in their foam packaging.

Schmincke's AKADEMIE® Acryl color suits the needs of not only the ambitious beginner but also the demanding professional artist. These brilliant, intense and extremely lightfast colours form a sophisticated assortment that includes three shades of white and special effect colours (including gold and silver). All the colours are created without cadmium pigments. Further advantages of this range are the completely waterproof drying, the long open time of the colours and a pleasant odour.

College® Acrylic includes 36 colours and is a solid basic assortment for price-conscious users, without renouncing the proven Schmincke quality “Made in Germany”. The colours have a good opacity or translucence, depending on the individual pigmentation. They can be mixed well with each other and with all other Schmincke acrylic colours, dry quickly and are waterproof when dry. It is easy to learn how to mix colours with the three primary colours of yellow, magenta and cyan, and countless additional colours can be created to complement the palette.

Square foam brush for painting and stencil available in 4 sizes.