Panpastels

PanPastel Colors are genuine artists’ quality pastels, uniquely packed in a pan format; available in a range of 60 colors. Loaded with the highest quality artists’ pigments; PanPastel Colors are made using a unique manufacturing process requiring minimal binder and fillers, resulting in a rich, ultra soft and low dust formulation. All of these professional quality colors are highly pigmented, have excellent lightfastness and are fully erasable. Each pan contains 35%* more material than the average pastel stick. PanPastel Colors are fully compatible with traditional pastel sticks, pastel surfaces, conventional fixatives and other artists’ colors.

• Quickly block in large areas of color in seconds, e.g. for backgrounds and underpainting• Achieve a more painterly effect in pastels

• Apply controlled marks – from intense strokes to delicate marks

• Build up multiple layers while controlling the surface “tooth” fill

• Apply ultra thin “glazing” layers & veils of color

R&F Encaustics

R&F encaustic paints are an unusual alternative to other painting mediums. composed of beeswax and resin, it is applied molten to a surface and fused creating a lustrous enamel effect. since wax is impervious to moisture and over time will retain all the freshness of a newly finished work.

-Encaustic paint cools in minutes, which means additional layers can be added immediately. Once the surface has cooled, the paint has reached a permanent finish, but the painting can also be revised and reworked at any time -- whether seconds or years later.

-It can be laid on in delicately thin glazes or super thick impastos.
It can be carved, shaped and molded -- built to high or low relief.

-Its adhesiveness makes it an excellent collage medium that can be impregnated with foils, paper, glitter, string, found objects, and many other things.

-The surface quality of encaustic paint can be left rough and matte or worked to a semi-gloss or lustrous high-gloss enamel like finish.

-Encaustic painting does not require solvents of any kind. As a result, a number of health hazards are reduced or eliminated.