Great visions deserve great materials and great support. And who listens more carefully to customer needs? We do! Want to step back from your creation with pride? With s you can.

Our brilliant, know-how Guide Booklets are chock-full of tips, tricks and techniques for knowing your tools and to assist in your creative quest to transfer on to paper what you see in your mind.

ist grade pure pigments, so smooth, delicate and dreamy. Like painting without brushes, a rich and vibrant range of tints, effortlessly layerable and blendable for multiple shades and textures.

Our loyal customers love our materials, rate us alongside more expensive brands, and give 4.5 star ratings on Amazon. And with our Customer Services Team to assist along the way... it’s a gift!

Every s set includes a 5 or 6 step tutorial, guiding you through the colors and techniques used to create the image used on the respective packaging. In this case a comprehensive 6 step tutorial showing you how to draw and which colors to use to complete the Fairy Queen illustration.

Every s Pasteltint set comes with a 28 page guide to using the Pasteltint pencil range. The guide teaches you how to take care of your pencils, from sharpening methods to holding your pencil.

It explains the Pasteltint color range, light and form, pencil pressures and strokes, blending, layering and texturing techniques as well as more tutorials, a glossary and details about joining the Club.

Every s Pasteltint set comes with a 28 page guide to using the Pasteltint pencil range. The guide teaches you how to take care of your pencils, from sharpening methods to holding your pencil.

A short video showing some of the topics and techniques covered by the 28 page guide to using s Pasteltint color pencils.

A short video demonstrating the use of s Pasteltint color pencils.

Are Pasteltint pencils a chalk pastel or are they similar quality as your original colored pencils, using similar cores?

No, they are not a chalk pastel. The leads in these pencils are wax-based like those in our Premium Colored Pencil Sets.

Are these colors included in the regular 72 and 120 sets, or are they completely new sets of 48 colors?

The colors in the Pasteltint set are entirely new, and are not duplicated in our regular 72 or 120 colored pencil sets.

Can you use blending spirits with these pencils?

Yes - and you can also use baby oil, Zest-it and other easy-to-find blending agents.

Are Pasteltint pencils permanent? Can I use them on a blackboard for example?

These pencils do not have chalk cores, they are wax-based. They would not be appropriate for a blackboard/chalkboard. However the beautiful pastel colors will work brilliantly on black cover board or black paper.

Where are these pasteltint pencils produced?

All our products are developed in the UK and manufactured in our factories in China, but all inventory for orders is stocked in various Amazon warehouses for ease of distribution.

48 PASTELTINT PENCILS

STRONG PRESENTATION TIN

EASY-LIFT PENCIL TRAYS

POP-UP PENCIL SELECTION

Simply press the pencil end to lift it from the tray and you're ready to layer, blend and detail.

AMAZING PASTEL COLORS

The richly pigmented, subtly tinted leads layer, blend, detail and burnish creamy pastel effects.

ist grade pure pigments, encased in basswood for clean, easy-to-hold control, come in a lighter, softer, rich and evocative range of hues to create dreamy, pastel-tinted, impressionistic work.

Purest quality wax cores with creamy lay down, velvety smooth application and controlled layering enable you to achieve that soft, saturated, natural look where colors merge from one shade to another and edges naturally blend.

Put Pasteltint pencils through their paces by varying pressure to control density and deploy techniques like hatching, cross-hatching, contouring and stippling - effortlessly obedient and sharpenable for more detailed work.

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