Drawing

BLOCKX Artist Soft Pastels

Blockx Soft Pastels are handmade in Belgium using pure pigments in the same tradition started by company founder and chemist Jacques Blockx in 1844. Four subsequent generations of Blockx family members have combined traditional methods with modern chemistry to create artist's colors that are pure, permanent, lightfast, and stable. These water-soluble pastels are soft and velvety in texture, possess a superb tinting strength, and will draw on any surface, although they're best-suited for pastel paper.

Colors are named in such a way as to make it easy for artists to choose the exact shades they need. If the colour name ends in:

1 — the pure colour is upgraded with black

2 — this is the pure colour

3 — the pure colour is tinted with white

4 — the pure colour is tinted with more white

5 — the pure colour is tinted with much more white