Faber-Castell Pitt Pastel tin box with 12 colors. Pitt Pastel is Faber-Castell’s dry pastel in pencil form—an oil-free, artist-quality product with a high pigment content, designed for fine details, figure drawing, and filigree work where regular pastels are too coarse. The starter set offers a versatile selection ranging from light tones to earth tones and black.

The set includes the following colors:

• White
• Cream
• Light Ultramarine
• Helioblue Reddish
• Hooker's Green
• Earth Green Yellowish
• Dark Sepia
• Dark Naples Ochre
• Terracotta
• Sanguine
• Pompeian Red
• Black

• Pitt Pastel are dry pastels in a convenient pencil form, ideal for fine details and intricate work
• High concentration of pigment with excellent lightfastness
• Wax- and oil-free, making the colors easy to blend and mix for smooth transitions
• Requires only minimal adjustments to the finished image
• Ideal for figure drawing and detailed pastel work, either on its own or in combination with other Pitt products
• The wood comes from certified and sustainable forestry

About Faber-Castell

Faber-Castell is the world’s oldest manufacturer of pencils, founded in 1761 in Stein near Nuremberg by the carpenter Kaspar Faber. The company has remained in the family’s ownership for several generations. In the early 1800s, the third-generation owner, Georg Leonhard Faber, established the standard hardness grades still used today and, under the name “A. W. Faber,” launched what is considered the world’s first branded pencil. His son, Lothar von Faber, subsequently expanded the company into the global market, opening branches in New York, London, and Paris, among other cities.

In 1905, the company launched the green Castell 9000 pencil, and the name Faber-Castell came into being when the Faber family joined forces with Count Alexander zu Castell-Rüdenhausen. Today, Faber-Castell grows a large portion of the wood for its pencils in its own certified pine plantations in Brazil and uses exclusively water-based, environmentally friendly varnish in its European production. The “Made in Germany” quality seal has been the foundation of the company’s artistic and design products since its inception.