Caran d’Ache extends its pastel range. Carefully selected by leading pastel artists, these PASTEL PENCILS assortments are intended for both beginners and experienced amateur or professional artists, for preliminary work and detailed finishing of a huge variety of subjects.

This Standard Assortment of 40 Colours provides pastel artists with a large range of colours enabling them to create life-like models, animals, landscapes, flowers, still-life compositions etc. It is the ideal assortment for using all the creative possibilities of dry pastels.

Stable with fixative, high pigment concentration for generous blurring.

First quality cedar wood easily sharpened with a cutter

Rounded hexagonal body, matt colour cap matches the lead colour, clear varnish

Colour number indicated

Smooth to apply and generous for blurring, strong point

Large lead: diameter Ø 4.7 mm

Rich texture that adheres well to the support

Exceptional light-fastness (Standard Blue Wool Scale)