Derwent is delighted to announce the re-launch of its Pastel Pencil range with a contemporary new look, softer texture and rejuvenated range of colours.
The new softer texture means improved performance. The pencil glides across the surface of the paper, transferring the colour with a velvety touch that produces a smooth and full bodied powdery finish. It is now easy to move colour around your drawing, especially with the help of a paper stump if you want to keep your fingers clean! The range of Pastel Pencils has been reduced from 90 shades to a more balanced selection of 72. The vibrant and intense colours blend easily to create an infinite number of hues and tints.
The new pencils sharpen much more easily so you can enjoy the best of both worlds; the beauty of pastels with the precision of a pencil. The barrel coating on the pencils uses our environmentally friendly water-based paint technology.
The Pastel Pencil range is presented in protective tin cases, which have the exclusive new drawing from artist Paul Finn on the front. Speaking about the commission Paul said
“Derwent’s new Pastel Pencils are a major improvement on their previous range. The same intense, vivid pigments have been retained, with a much improved binding agent that allows multiple layering, including adding darker layers over light ones. These new and unique pastel pencils also allow me to produce finer, more detailed drawings than with any other pastel pencils I have tried.”
Derwent also changed the formulation of the new Pastels to complement the new Pastel Pencil range. Presented in a block format, the Pastels are every bit as smooth and silky as the pencils, offering effortless colour transfer and infinite blending capabilities. The colourless Derwent Blending White, which is available in all the tins, allows you to blend the 36 colours easily without affecting their density or shade.
The new Pastels have a semi-hard consistency, not as firm and rigid as traditional hard pastels. Their square shape and smooth, semi-hard texture allow you to use the ends, sides or edges to produce both broad strokes and fine lines. Although not as powdery as soft pastels, the effect is equally beautiful.
The new Pastels from Derwent are perfect for traditional pastel drawings, and open up endless possibilities for bold expressive pieces. Pastel Pencils and Pastels are available individually, in a blister card, in tins, collections and special wooden boxes.
For more information please visit www.pencils.co.uk
