Sennelier Oil pastel blue, set of 24, portrait

• * Extra fine art quality. Creamy, fade-resistant, opaque and vibrant, for versatile use
• * Mix well with other colors. * Can be applied to different surfaces (canvas, paper, cardboard, metal, plastic, glass, etc. ).
• * Use of high-quality pigments, particularly pure synthetic binder and mineral wax.
• 24-piece set - Portrait in one box

In 1949, Parisian painter Henri Goetz approached Henri Sennelier, the famous manufacturer of artist materials, about creating a wax color stick for his friend Pablo Picasso. Picasso, a longtime customer of Sennelier and a frequent visitor to their store across the street from the Louvre Museum, was looking for a medium that could be used freely on a variety of surfaces without fading or cracking. Their collaboration produced the incomparable Sennelier oil pastels. The Sennelier Oil Pastel is a product that uses the components used in all Sennelier colors - top quality pigments, an extremely pure synthetic binding medium and mineral wax. The pigments are ground with an inert, non-siccative binder that does not oxidize and has no effect on film stability or surface. This base is then mixed with wax (neutral pH). The balance of this mix gives Sennelier oil pastels a unique bliss and a creamy texture that allows for a lot of freedom in pictorial expression. Sennelier oil pastels have an extraordinarily high pigment content, giving them high color and coverage potential, excellent brightness and a high degree of light stability (except metallic and fluorescent shades). Note — To protect an oil pastel surface from dirt and dust, apply a fixative 8 to 10 days after work. The fixative does not dry the work. If desired, a final varnish spray can be applied to permanently seal the surface, but this can adversely affect future restoration options. Set of 24 - Portrait in a cardboard box contains: white, blue-gray, reddish brown gray, Naples yellow, black, flesh ocher, yellow ocher, pink, sepia, burnt sienna, rough sienna, geranium lake light, brown madder, violet ocher, permanent intense red, cold gray, sky blue, royal blue, English grey, pink ocher, light yellow, coral, orange ocher, light English red.