12 Handmade Colour Pastels, Semi-Precious Stones

In modern-day mass manufacture, pastels have been known to be formulated using chalks and other dusty fillers altering potency of colour and texture. In the face of such declining quality Rebecca Wallace and Pip Seymour, two artists, art lecturers and colour specialists, began making paints to their own tastes and recipes looking to emulate art materials from the past, with more variable grain and natural appearance, offering long forgotten pigments and colours.