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20% Off Art Spectrum Wooden Box Sets

Both the Extra Soft & Round Pastel Sets

The special includes the wooden box set of 180 Extra Soft Pastels and the wooden box sets of 15, 60 and 154 Round Pastels. Special is strictly whilst stocks last.

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25% Off Rembrandt Wooden Box Sets

Eight different wooden box sets to choose from. Rembrandt are towards the harder end of the scale in terms of softness. This allows many techniques and effects to be implemented which are a lot harder with the very soft pastels.

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New: Clairfontaine Pastelgrain

Pastelgrain is another unique pastel surface from Clairfontaine. Pastelgrain has the same characteristics as Pastelmat except that it has a noticable, mild, surface texture.

Pastelgrain allows you to use texture creatively. You can accentuate textural effects and add depth by using the grain in the paper, but also progressively build layers of pastel to control the amount of texture. You can also plan for, and reach, the stage where areas of the painting can be textural and others not.

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10% Off Blue Earth Singles

Blue Earth soft pastels have a range of 336 colours. The pastels are made using high density mineral pigments which gives them their very soft and dense consistency. The pastels have excellent covering power and you can lay down colour very quickly.

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Soft Pastel Art Prize 2025
$5000 First Prize

The Soft Pastels Art Prize for 2025 will feature a $5000 first prize and a total prize pool of $6700. It is an on-line competition and open to all artists from Australia and New Zealand. The competition is run by softpastels.com.au and aims to promote soft pastel painting in Australia and New Zealand.

Entries will open on 01 April 2025, so start painting!

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20% Off Dawn Emerson Pan Pastel Set

Dawn Emerson is the author of the ground breaking book Pastel Innovations and is also a very successful gallery artist and educator. The Pan Pastel Dawn Emerson Collection contains:
- 40 colours
- 2 pastel trays
- 4 Sofft Sponge Bars
- 4 Sofft Angle Slice Sponges.

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10% Off Sennelier Pastel Card Sheets

Pastel card is pH neutral and has a specially formulated coloured coating containing cork powder. The cork powder provides the tooth that holds the pastel and the grain could be compared to a 400 grit sanded paper. A favourite of many artists, Pastel Card was one of the first 'modern' pastel papers.

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The Big Pan Pastel Sale

- Single Pan Pastels from $11.95
- Compact Sets of 10 only $99.95
- Compact sets of 20 only $179.95
- $300 off set of 80 Pan Pastels and Accessories. Now Only $695 including free postage (pictured above).

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Express Post for Christmas

Good News. Orders over $100 before postage are being sent Express Post for Christmas. There are some exclusions for big and bulky items (eg: large sheets of paper) or for regions well outside the express post network.





20% Off Schmincke Sets

Schmincke have sixteen sets which you can choose from, ranging from small carboard box sets to the complete range in a beatiful wooden box. Schmincke pastels contain the purest medium fine ground artists pigments in the highest possible concentration. Contrastingly, the binder is kept to a minimum. This provides for one of the softest pastels on the market, a joy to use which takes you back to the origins of colour.

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15% Off Sennelier Pebbles

The Sennelier Pebbles are very large soft pastels shaped like a pebble. The Pebbles have sharp edges, a flat bottom and rounded curves providing the perfect tool for creating dynamic large works. The ergonomic shape of the Pebbles aids in the application of the pastel and gives excellent control. The Pebbles are made using the same fine pigments as in the Sennelier regular pastels and come in a range of 24 colours. The Pebbles are very large measuring approximately 9cm long x 7cm wide x 3cm high.

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New Unison Soft Pastel Sets

Unison have released several new sets including:
- 8 Half Stick Summer & 8 Half Stick Autum
- Set of 18 Bird Essentials by Loes Botman
- 16 Half Stick Versatility Set by Ginny Elston
- 16 Half Stick Abstract Set by Caitlin Helsop

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10% Off J Luda Singles

J Luda have a range of 186 single pastels. J Luda have focused on the use of environmentally friendly, modern, lightfast, synthetic pigments. This focus combined with the 'Artisan Made' approach of using the best traditional techniques gives the pastels their colour intensity.

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$50 Off Renesans Set of 99

Renesans soft pastels are handmade in Poland. The manual production and natural drying process give the pastels a soft creamy texture which allows for a wide range of painting techniques. The quality of the pastels is assured through the use of quality pigments and genuine Polish kaolin.

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15% Off Bruynzeel Pastel Pencil Singles

Bruynzeel pastel pencils are rich and buttery, yet firm. They have strong colour release and resist crumbling which is great for finer lines and sharpening. The pencils are 3.7mm wide with the colour strip being perfecly centred within a cedar casing. The well balanced colour range and excellent lightfastness make them a great choice for artists.

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15% Off Colourfix Pads

Colourfix Original has a medium tooth which will hold multiple layers of pastel. The black and white pads are available whilst stocks last as they have been discontinued by Art Spectrum. However, the warm and cool pads will be ongoing and there is a new 20 sheet Rainbow Pad.

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