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Fabulous way to check out comparisons between manufacturers without breaking the bank by buying sets as well as a convenient way to increase your pastel collection in certain color ranges. Particularly suited for newer pastelists.
-Cynthia W.

DAKOTA SOFT PASTEL SAMPLERS

We make a variety of pastel samplers to give you an opportunity to experience the softness, texture and size of the various pastel lines. The dividing line between the hard, medium, and soft is somewhat arbitrary, allowing us to keep the cost of the samplers down.  We vary the colors included in each sampler to make them useful additions to your palette, but the set is not designed to be a comprehensive working set. Pastel samplers are made from available stock and each is unique. 

SOFT SAMPLER: Blue Earth, Art Spectrum Extra Soft, Blockx, Girault, Great American, Mount Vision, Schmincke, Sennelier, Richeson Handrolled, Terry Ludwig, Townsend Soft, and Unison.

NEW TRY-ME-OUT SAMPLERS

SOFTNESS RANGE SAMPLER: The pastel world from hard to soft. Cretacolor, Rembrandt, Mount Vision, Richeson, Blue Earth

SQUARE SAMPLER: Pastels that gives you the edge! The softest square pastels.
Blue Earth, Terry Ludwig, Holbein, Great American, Art Spectrum Extra-Soft Square

MEDIUM SOFT SAMPLER: Updated to represent pastels on the less-soft side.
Cretacolor, Holbein, Art Spectrum, Rembrandt, Girault

IRIDESCENT SAMPLER: Five pastels that shimmer. Diane Townsend Soft Form, Great American, Sennelier, Schmincke, Mount Vision

The sets are not designed to be a comprehensive working set and colors chosen are completely random & dependent on available stock.

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