Sennelier - Oil Pastels - 24 Portrait Colours Set - Item #N132520.243

In 1949, Parisian painter Henri Goetz approached Henri Sennelier, the famous artist materials manufacturer, about creating a wax colour stick for his friend Pablo Picasso. Picasso, a long-time Sennelier customer and a frequent visitor to their store across the street from the Louvre museum, was looking for a medium that could be used freely on a variety of surfaces without fading or cracking.

Their collaboration produced the incomparable Sennelier oil pastel.

Key features:

• Extra fine Artists’ quality Easy to work with Blend well with other colours
• Extremely versatile and can be used on a wide variety of surfaces
• Makes use of the components used in all Sennelier colours – top-quality pigments, an extremely pure synthetic binding medium, and mineral wax

This set includes 24 full sticks in the following colours:

• White 001
• Blue Grey 011
• Reddish Brown Grey 015
• Naples Yellow 021
• Black 023
• Flesh Ochre 025
• Yellow Ochre 026
• Pink 028
• Sepia 033
• Burnt Sienna 036
• Raw Sienna 037
• Geranium Lake Light 202
• Brown Madder 092
• Violet Ochre 209
• Permanent Intense Red 220
• Cold Grey 223
• Sky Blue 226
• Royal Blue 227
• English Grey 229
• Rose Ochre 230
• Luminous Yellow 233
• Coral 236
• Orange Ochre 238
• Light English Red 240