Blockx Soft Pastel
204 bright, luminous and fresh tints are available.
•Made of pure pigment in the strongest company tradition. Superb tinting strength.
•Each stick is wrapped individually for perfect delivery to your Studio.
•Soft & velvety yet retaining a slight hardness so that one may complete a whole painting and all its layers without switching back and forth between hard and soft pastels.
•Achieved with modern chemistry, yet still handmade, they are water soluble and lightfast, guaranteed by five generations of chemists.

•How to read Blockx Pastel color numbers:
Each color has 5 shades to its name. For example:







•View hand painted swatches by clicking on a color below or
•Download color chart in pdf format (788KB)
















To quote Salvador Dali, writing about Jacques Blockx the founder in “50 Secrets of Craftsmanship”: “This man who never painted, will contribute more to the painters of tomorrow than what we will have accomplished, all the modern painters together”.