Sennelier - Oil Pastels - 12 Introductory Colours Set - Item #N132520.120

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

• White 001
• Pale Blue 006
• French Ultramarine Blue 237
• Delft Blue 203
• Cinnabar Green Yellow 042
• Green Medium 045
• Lemon Yellow 019
• Yellow Ochre 026
• Mandarin 200
• Permanent Intense Red 220
• Burnt Umber 034
• Black 023