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Canson Mi-Teintes Velvet Paper

artstuff — Fri, 04 Jul 2025 08:18:53 +0000

Canson Mi-Teintes Velvet paper is specially designed for pastel artists looking for a very high-quality paper. This thick 430 gsm paper allows for easy colour application, ensuring vast creative freedom. Its velvety surface enhances pigment adherence and withstands wet techniques, making it ideal for precise, detailed work. This paper is excellent for easy and reliable creation. Mi-Teintes Velvet paper is excellent for pastels, supporting different techniques from detailed sketches to finished works. This paper is perfect for artists who favour precision and quality in their artistic expression.

Mi-Teintes Velvet paper offers several benefits for pastel artists:
• An ideal paper for pastels, it ensures a smooth application and allows unlimited overlaying of colours, giving life to vivid, exquisite works.
• The paper quality eliminates the need for a fixative, making it easier for artists to work and preserving the purity and luminosity of the colours applied.
• Exceptional pigment adhesion for brilliant, long-lasting results, allowing works to retain their intensity over time.
• The use of wet techniques opens up new creative possibilities, inviting artists to explore without constraints.
• A choice of 14 colours, offering a variety of backgrounds to suit every artist’s vision.
• Designed for precision, this paper is ideal for fine, delicate detail, essential for works requiring great accuracy.

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Faber-Castell Oil Pastels

artstuff — Mon, 22 Jul 2024 14:59:25 +0000

These quality oil-based pastels offer great opportunities of applying both extremely intense, strong colours and also delicate pastel tones. Due to their high luminosity, these pastels are ideal for encaustic as well as various pastel and scraping techniques.
Depending on the desired artistic effect, you can use your finger to wipe them or blend them with a paintbrush and turpentine (or white spirit).

Vivid colours with intense luminosity for encaustic, pastel and scraping techniques
Endless possibilities of blending individual colours to create new hues
Easy to wipe or blend
Available in assorted sets of 12, 24, 36

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Pentel Arts Oil Pastel Sets

artstuff — Mon, 22 Jul 2024 13:19:59 +0000

Pentel oil pastels are value for money pastels, great for students and artists alike. They are versatile, featuring brilliant, fade resistant colours, and can be used with many other mediums for interesting effects. They come in a wide range of attractive colours and blend well.
These brilliant coloured pastels apply smoothly and blend easily for subtle shades, tints and colour mixtures. Easy to use for artists of all ages.
Ideal for most types of paper.

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Mont Marte Extra-Soft Oil Pastels

artstuff — Mon, 22 Jul 2024 11:08:28 +0000

Open up a world of creative possibilities by exploring these pastel ranges. A range of vibrant colours that will really brighten up your artwork.
They are beautifully soft for shading and blending and can be applied to a wide range of textured papers and card.
These oil pastel sets offer a mix of either pastel, or natural muted tones, ideal for realistic landscapes and still-life art.
The ultra-soft buttery texture gives you exceptional blending and clean colour mixing for a great result. Thanks to the highly blendable formula, it’s easy to work with a palette knife to achieve textural effects.
Use them on a range of smooth or textured surfaces, including paper, card and canvas. Experiment and create interesting designs, patterns and techniques.
You can even mix these art pastels with oil mediums or turps for a wet, glossy effect. Up your oil pastel game and give this ultra-soft formula a go for your next art or craft project.

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Clairefontaine Pastelmat Pads 24x30cm

hcadmin2 — Thu, 28 Jan 2021 13:35:26 +0000

The Pastelmat® is a new concept for the pastel market! You don’t need to use fixative between each layer: you are able to multiply layers without a saturation effect. It is more comfortable to blend thanks to the smoothness of the surface. The Pastelmat®,acid-free, is a cardboard on which thin fibers of cellulose are fixed. Resistant, it keeps its original properties after being rubbed or wet. In this pad, each sheet is protected by a sheet of Crystal paper.

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Zellen Zelfix Fixative 200ml

artstuff — Fri, 20 Nov 2020 08:50:15 +0000

A cost-effective, clear matt fixative spray that is great for pastel, charcoal, pencil and dried flowers.

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Ashrad Artist’s Fixative

artstuff — Tue, 17 Nov 2020 10:34:16 +0000

This clear matt medium fixative spray is light-fast and great for charcoal, chalk, crayon, pastel, pencil and dried flowers, to stop smudging and provide longevity for your artwork.

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