Medium and Hard Pastels

Giving More Detail with Medium and Hard Pastels
Medium and hard pastels have less pigment and more binder. This characteristic gives them a texture that is firmer enabling you to give them a point. Giving pastels a point will give you the opportunity to use them for outlining. You can create small and intricate detailing as well. High quality medium and hard pastels come in a large assortment of colors for your preference.

Assorted Earth and Flesh Tones		Faber-Castell Polychromos Pastels		General's Compressed Pastel Chalk		Prismacolor NuPastel Color Sets
Price: $2 - $3		Price: $2		Price: $3		Price: $11 - $12
Brand: General's		Brand: Faber-Castell		Brand: General's		Brand: Prismacolor
The assortment package contains four different sticks, one each of Sienna, Sepia, Burnt Sienna, and Light Flesh Tone.		Polychromos pastels contain the highest quality pigments for unsurpassed resistance to fading — and they're the only hard pastels with the lightfastness rating printed on every stick.		Each package contains four smooth, compressed sketching sticks.		NuPastels have a rich, creamy texture that blends and shades easily.
Richeson Semi-Hard Square Pastels		Sargent Art Square Chalk Pastels		Van Gogh Hard Pastels		Yarka Sanguine and Sepia Drawing Crayons
Price: $1		Price: $12 - $15		Price: $66		Price: $10
Brand: Richeson		Brand: Sargent		Brand: Van Gogh		Brand: Yarka
Richeson’s professional, semi-hard pastel sticks are perfect for underpainting.		These square chalk pastels are a great value for the classroom or for fine artists.		From the makers of Rembrandt pastels, the Van Gogh colors are hard, square-shaped pastels that are easy to use and produce very little dust.		Yarka Classic Drawing Crayons are hard pastel sticks, 3/8" in diameter and 2-1/4" long, for use on paper, board, or primed canvas.