Ultra Soft Pastels with a Painterly Twist

PanPastel Colors are a revolutionary take on traditional soft pastels, offering artists a highly pigmented, ultra-soft formula in a unique pan (cake-like) format. These professional-grade pastels are designed to be mixed and applied like paint, giving you unprecedented control, subtlety, and versatility in your artwork. Ideal for everything from bold marks to soft glazes, PanPastels make pastel techniques easier and more dynamic than ever before.

Manufactured with minimal binders and fillers, each PanPastel is packed with high-quality, lightfast pigments and creates little to no dust. Their rich, buttery texture allows for effortless blending and layering without overfilling the tooth of your surface. Each 9ml pan contains approximately 35% more material than a standard pastel stick, offering extended use for artists working on a variety of surfaces and media.

Key Features

• Ultra-soft, highly pigmented, and low-dust formula
• Unique pan format allows for mixing and application like paint
• Each pan contains 35% more material than an average pastel stick
• Minimal binder and filler for rich color payoff
• Lightfast and fully compatible with other pastel media
• Best applied with Sofft Tools for smooth, painterly effects

Perfect For

• Painting and drawing with a painterly pastel approach
• Creating pastel washes, backgrounds, and underpaintings
• Layering ultra-thin glazes without clogging paper texture
• Blending, sketching, and blocking in color
• Subtractive drawing techniques using toned paper and erasers
• Enhancing watercolor paintings or working in mixed media
• Artists of all skill levels seeking soft, blendable pastel color in a new, intuitive format