Sennelier Extra Soft Pastels - Madder Violet 315

Still made to traditional methods created well over a hundred years ago these ‘extra soft’ pastels are made with pure, selected pigments and a natural binder. Comfortable to handle, with a smooth and velvety quality their large contact surface allows big areas to be covered with a high degree of uniformity.

The high quality composition of “à l’écu” pastels is the result of a perfect balance between binder and pigment. For gradient shades, increasing amounts of mineral fines are added, ultimately tending towards white. The exceptional brightness is the result of the pigment and of the natural mineral fines discovered by Sennelier in 1905 and that have been used ever since.

The manufacturing process of the Sennelier cylindrical pastel does not compress the paste and the pastel dries naturally in open air. The life span of a piece of work is guaranteed by the quality of the pastel, but also by the quality of the substrate.