Artist Pastels - Caran D’ache Neopastel 48s

Discover the magic of color with the Caran d’Ache Neopastel 48s Artist Pastels at Smartfox NZ! These professional-grade oil pastels are designed for artists, fine art students, and educators who seek the highest quality materials for their creative projects. Boasting a soft, velvety texture and a remarkable high pigment content, Neopastel pastels provide a rich color experience that makes every artwork come alive. With an extensive palette of 48 luminous hues, including a variety of grey, warm, and cold tones, these pastels cater to an array of artistic styles and preferences.

The Neopastel is perfect for multiple art techniques, from detailed line work to flat washes and exquisite blending. Its exceptional coverage ensures your creativity knows no bounds, allowing stenciling, batik effects, and sgrafitto techniques with ease. Artists will appreciate the wide 10mm diameter of each pastel, providing easy handling for diverse applications on various materials, whether they are tinted, dark, or otherwise.

Not only is Neopastel water-resistant and non-oxidisable, but it also boasts excellent lightfastness, ensuring your artwork retains its brilliance over time. Whether you're working on canvas, paper, or any other surface, these pastels are versatile enough to meet your needs. Their unique composition allows them to be soluble in turpentine, making them an excellent choice for oil painting.

Crafted with precision by the artisans at Maison Caran d’Ache, this product adheres to the highest Swiss Made quality standards while prioritizing environmental sustainability. Elevate your art with the Caran d’Ache Neopastel 48s Artist Pastels, available exclusively at Smartfox NZ, where creativity meets quality.

Artist Pastels - Neopastel 48s
VERY HIGH-QUALITY OIL PASTELS. With its soft, velvety texture and high pigment content, the Neopastel oil pastel offers artists and Fine Art teachers and students a flexible medium with strong colours. Developed in the Caran d’Ache workshops on the advice of expert pastel artists, Neopastel is a must with its huge range of 96 luminous hues, incorporating a wide selection of grey, warm and cold tones. Neopastel offers excellent coverage making it suitable for a wealth of applications and artistic combinations: from lines to flat-wash, blending to stencilling, or batik effect to sgrafitto in multiple layers. Its wide 10mm diameter, refined texture, water resistance and excellent lightfastness make it ideally suited for use on diverse materials, be they tinted or dark. Non-drying, non-oxidisable and heat resistant, Neopastel is also soluble in turpentine and can be used with ease for oil painting on canvas. Neopastel oil pastels are designed and made by the artisans of the Maison Caran d’Ache with the greatest care according to the quality standard criteria of the Swiss Made label and in compliance with environmental norms and certifications.