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Our Pastel Sticks
Many years ago, when Terry first started using pastels, he grew frustrated with the limitations of the cylinder shaped sticks. Because of the chalk stick like shape, Terry was unable to achieve the detail and finer aspects of art in his painting, so he went to work himself figuring out a solution. Thus, the first rectangular shaped soft pastel in the world was born. Because of their quality and shape, our sticks deliver thick, broad strokes or thin, precise lines where necessary. The size of our pastels is approximately 1 ½” x ½” x ½”. Because each pastel is handcrafted with unique pigments, size and shape may vary slightly.
Our Colors
Frustrated with the lack of color options available and few choices for very soft pastels, Terry began experimenting with formulas to make his own pastels. Terry’s goal was to create a vast array of color in pastels that were uniformly soft across all densities of hue. One of Terry’s first attempts to broaden the color spectrum was to create more green sticks. As Terry said, “there just weren’t enough shades of green soft pastels to capture nature, so I had to make new colors.”
Throughout the years, Terry and his staff have continued to “see” colors in the world that were not yet captured in Terry Ludwig soft pastels. Terry Ludwig Pastels was the first soft pastel manufacturer in the world to create our famous Eggplant (V100) colored stick. This stick with a deep purple hue is darker than black. Additionally, we created our family of Shades of Nature sticks that offer a muted color family not offered by anyone else. As a result, today Terry Ludwig Pastels boasts over 789 beautiful pastels. The number of pastels offered by TLP greatly changes from year to year as we envision more colors that need to be created to serve the soft pastel artist market.
Our Sets