Caran d’Ache has been an expert manufacturer of pastels since 1952 and it was more than 30 years ago that the craftsmen in its Geneva workshops developed the NEOPASTEL to fully satisfy the needs of professional and amateur pastel artists. With its range of 96 professional-quality colours, this soft oil pastel encourages unlimited creativity through the wide variety of techniques it makes possible.

This assortment offers pastel artists a range of shades suitable for a large variety of subjects such as portraits, still lifes landscapes and abstracts.

Specification

• Caran d'Ache Neopastel Oil Pastel Box of 48 (7400.348)
• ASTM D-4236 compliant
• Extra-fine pigments and inert oil
• Oil pastel, round shape, water-resistant
• Developed and manufactured in Switzerland
• Colour identification number and lightfastness both indicated
• Flexible: the point, the bevelled cut or the flat side of the pastel may all be used
• The soft and velvety texture does not crumble and can be dissolved in white spirit
• Unlimited blending, shading, templates, for impregnating and shading, " fingerwork ", on numerous media