A fresh box of soft pastels is a treasure chest of raw colour; the crumbly sticks of bound pigment provide an accessible solution to anybody wanting to bring more colour into their figure drawings without the practical challenges of paint. The dry, powdery texture of soft pastels gives them similar properties to their monochromatic counter parts – charcoal and chalk – with which they can be sympathetically combined.
Marks made in soft pastel are easily blurred and smoothed, making sustained
