J. Luda Handmade Soft Pastel Sets
"We started manufacturing pastels for ourselves, wanting to achieve a material so soft that it can be handled with rubber brushes easy. When we had a small selection of 15-20 colors, other artists started asking about the materials used to create our pastel paintings. A couple of them tried them as well. Some mixed it with water, some mixed it with oil. The feedback was positive and they encouraged us to start producing more colors. We started working on our current selection of colors in 2013, and we finished the prototypes in the summer of 2018. We use only pigments with lightfastness ratings between 7 and 8."