The Faber-Castell Pitt Pastel White is a premium artist-grade pastel available as a square sketching crayon. It delivers high-pigment opacity and excellent lightfastness, widely celebrated for creating crisp highlights and delicate blends in classical monochrome figure drawings.
Key Features & Specs
- Formula: Oil- and wax-free, making it perfectly suited for smudging and achieving delicate transitions with less mess.
- Shade: Colour 101.
- Types: Available as a pencil (soft or medium) or as an uncoated chunky pastel stick (medium).
- Lightfastness: High resistance to fading.
- Manufacturing: Made in Germany using high-quality acid-free pigments.
- Complementary Use: Often used alongside Polychromos pastels or other Pitt Monochrome tones like sanguine, sepia, and black for Renaissance-style life drawing.
Ideal Applications
- Highlights: Adding luminous, bright accents to dark and mid-tone sketches.
- Blending: Can be easily smudged using a finger, paper wiper, or brush to soften contrasts.
- Fine Details: The pencil format is excellent for sharp, precise graphic lines, while the stick is perfect for shading larger areas.
- Fixing: Requires minimal fixative, ensuring vividness of color is retained














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