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Blick Artists' Soft Pastel - Crimson Lake 2

Artists' Soft Pastel

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Product details
Blick SKU
21948-3732
About this product range

Blick Artists' Soft Pastels are available in a variety of rich, vibrant colors and soft hues, ideal for all types of pastel painting and color sketching.

Created by combining the finest pigments with a minimal amount of binder, Artists' Soft Pastels have a velvety texture that offers easy laydown and consistent coverage. They're great for blending, layering and softening edges — all with minimal crumbling. They're also extremely lightfast.

Available by the individual stick, sets of full length sticks, or half stick sets that allow artists access to twice the color and twice the creative possibilities of the full stick sets. Individual sticks measure 2-1/2" L x 1/2" Dia (64 mm x 13 mm). Half sticks measure 1-1/4" L x 1/2" Dia (32 mm x 13 mm).

For professional quality at an affordable price, artists choose Blick Artists' Soft Pastels.

Please refer to the Item Specs tab of this page for lightfast ratings.

Pigment information

General reference notes about pigments can describe other media (such as oil). They do not verify this product’s exact formulation or behavior.

Pyrrole Red

Pigment code
PR254
Type
organic, aminoketone
Chemical name
Bis-(p-chrolopheny)-1. 4-diketopyrrolo(3. 4-c)pyrrole
Properties
Pyrrole Red is opaque and has strong covering power. According to manufacturer Ciba, which uses the trade name Irgazin Red, it is a “clean, highly saturated mid shade red with high temperature resistance, excellent color strength, outstanding chemical, solvent and bleed resistance, and good weatherfastness.”
Permanence
Pyrrole Red is considered to have excellent lightfastness among organic pigments in its class. Tests in industrial applications have given it scores of 7-8 on the Blue Wool Scale.
Toxicity
According to the Australian government's Ministry on Health and Aging, "The notified chemical exhibited low oral and dermal toxicity in rats, did not exhibit toxic effects when administered orally to rats for 28 days, was not a skin irritant in rabbi
History
Pyrrole Red, used as an automotive paint and as a colorant in plastics, was developed as one of a range of pigments to replace lead based pigments. In art materials, it is often used as a synthetic and lightfast replacement for carmine, a laked pigment that was originally produced from the body of the cochineal insect. It is also used to replace the older naphthol reds, organic red pigments that are sometimes only marginally lightfast and weatherfast.
Description
Magnacryl Red, Versal Red, Microlith Red, Unisphere Red, Cromophtol Red, Irgazin Red.

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