CONTÉ À PARIS PASTEL PENCILS

The exceptional diameter (5mm) of the Conté à Paris Pastel Pencil lead gives genuine freedom of creation and has an unrivalled feel.

It is the perfect pencil companion to Soft Pastels because its lead is slightly harder, with less pigment. When you require detail for small and medium-sized formats, Pastel Pencil is preferable to Soft Pastels and Carré Crayons.

In contrast with Soft Pastels, Pastel Pencils are best used as pure colours laid out in a patchwork fashion, side by side - rather than layered - so the shades are not diminished.

Available in a range of 48 vibrant colours, loose and in sets.

SIZE:

• Length: 176.5 mm
• Diameter 8.5 mm
• Lead diameter 5mm

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CONTÉ À PARIS

Frenchman Nicolas Conté was a classic 18th-century Renaissance man: a chemist, inventor, soldier and balloonist, and artist. Most importantly, for our purposes, he created the pencil as we know it, responding to a wartime lack of British graphite by mixing the material with clay, thereby introducing the possibility of different degrees of hardness. He then invented the Conté Carré Crayon, a firm pastel used by Degas and Picasso. The company is still famed for these and other ranges of pastels, crayons, and pencils.