schmincke pastel extra soft half set 36

Cardboard set with 36 half sticks
- Highly concentrated pastel colours of the best quality.
- Soft as velvet and silk, as they contain no chalk.
- Perfect for beginners and for exploring the finest Schmincke Pastels.

The Schmincke Pastel range includes 400 brilliant and rich colours, containing only the purest, medium fine ground artists’ pigments, which are in the highest possible concentration.

Minimum use of binders ensures a stable compound.

Highest lightfastness

ABOUT SCHMINCKE
Schmincke began at the end of the 19th Century, when the colour chemists Josef Horadam and Hermann Schmincke saw an opportunity to provide the artists of the day with a truly superior artists oil, and so set out to Italy where traditional studio painting was still taught, in search of the nearly forgotten resin oil formulations.
In 1881, at the Academy of Fine Art in Florence, they secured the precision formulations of the Professor Cesare Mussini, a guardian of the old masters techniques, and on these formulations, the two founded their manufacturing establishment under the name H.Schmincke and Co.

In subsequent years, artists’ colours to suit all techniques were introduced, such as Josef Horadam’s patent watercolours of 1892. Through the entire 20th century, every generation of owner has lead the company to its current position as one of the worlds leading manufacturers of finest artists’ colour.