Derwent Pastel Pencils

The Cumberland Pencil Company in Great Britain has been producing pencils under the Derwent name since 1832.  With their state of the art manufacturing techniques, they have recently reformulated their popular line of Pastel Pencils to make them even softer, for smoother strokes and improved performance! These richly pigmented pencils have the softness and blendability of traditional pastels, but encased in a painted wooden barrel, they eliminate the mess of traditional pastels and allow for easy sharpening and detail work. With a balanced range of 72 vibrant colors, Derwent Pastel Pencils are simple to blend with a blending stump, brush or finger, for smooth color transitions. May be used alone to produce beautiful pastel works, or combine with traditional pastels for crisper underdrawings and aiding in sharpening detail areas.  Derwent Pastel Pencils: the beauty of pastel, with pencil precision!

"Derwent have achieved a balance in their Pastel Pencils between not too soft as to crumble and not too hard as to scratch, giving me a product I am confident to use and allowing me to utilise a comprehensive range of techniques whatever the subject."

—Tony Hogan, pastel artist