Mont Marte Extra Soft Oil Pastels Macaroon Hues 26pc

The Mont Marte Extra Soft Oil Pastels Macaroon Hues 26pc set is an artist-grade coloring collection curated for illustrators, fine artists, journaling enthusiasts, and students who adore soft, dreamy pastel palettes. Featuring an ultra-supple binder paired with high-grade, opaque pigments, these pastels deliver an exceptionally soft, buttery laydown that glides across paper and canvas without catching or crumbly flaking. The curated 26-piece macaroon selection offers delicate pastel tints, milky undertones, powdery florals, and soothing neutrals, making it an ideal choice for botanical illustrations, dessert paintings, dreamy skies, fashion sketching, and soft-focus portrait highlights.

Key Features & Specifications:

- Brand: Mont Marte

- Product Type: Extra Soft Oil Pastels (Macaroon Hues Palette)

- Quantity: Set of 26 Curated Pastel / Macaroon Shades

- Consistency & Laydown: Extra soft, velvety, and butter-smooth texture that requires minimal hand pressure for opaque mark-making

- Pigment & Opacity: Dense, opaque pigment concentration providing soft yet solid coverage, even over mid-tone and dark papers

- Blending & Medium Compatibility: Blends seamlessly with fingertips, tortillons, or silicone shapers; thins smoothly with odorless mineral spirits or linseed oil for painterly watercolor-like washes

- Impasto & Sgraffito: Rich, malleable body allows thick impasto layering, textured palette knife application, and delicate sgraffito detailing

- Surface Versatility: Performs reliably on textured pastel paper, toned cardstock, mixed media paper, canvas panels, stretched canvas, and craft wood

- Ergonomics & Protection: Individual paper sleeves keep fingers clean and minimize stick breakage inside the partitioned tray

- Safety & Permanence: Odorless, non-toxic formulation engineered to resist hardening, cracking, and fading over time

Includes 26 pastel and metallic colours:

White, Pastel Daffodil, Pastel Cantaloupe, Pastel Madrid, Pastel Mustard, Pastel Blush, Pastel Orange, Pastel Blood Orange, Pastel Pink, Pastel Cherry, Pastel Mauve, Pastel Lilac, Pastel Lavender, Pastel Cerulean, Pastel Cobalt, Pastel Aegean, Pastel Turquoise, Pastel Pear, Pastel Sap Green, Pastel Light Green, Pastel Dusty Pink, Pastel Red Clay, Pastel Chestnut, Pastel Grey, Gold, Silver 

How to Use:

1. Apply sticks directly to paper or canvas with light strokes for delicate washes or firm pressure for opaque coverage.

2. Blend adjacent shades using a blending stump, tortillon, or fingertip to achieve smooth transitions and dreamy color gradations.

3. Apply thick layers and sculpt with a palette knife for physical impasto relief, or scratch into upper layers for delicate sgraffito patterns.

4. Soften strokes into fluid underpaintings by touching them with a brush dampened in odorless mineral spirits or artist baby oil.

5. Store pastels in their designated box slots after use, and preserve finished artwork under glass or seal with a compatible pastel fixative.

Quality Assurance:

Mont Marte Extra Soft Oil Pastels are produced under strict quality control standards, ensuring uniform buttery softness, consistent pigment ratios, and dependable blending performance across all 26 macaroon hues.