My Go-To shades in PanPastel
Shading/Dusting the flowers & leaves brings them to life. Click the
blue links to go to the shade.
I use PanPastels to color/dust my flowers.
PanPastels is the brand name for a company owned by Golden paints that makes art pastels in a pressed powder compact form. In May 2025 PanPastel introduced 53 new shades! Blick stores carry PanPastels, but I find their online prices better than in-store. Online colors look a lot different than the real product BTW.
My top must-haves
Pinks:
Purples:
Yellows:
Yellow Ochre (formerly yellow ochre)
Yellow Ochre Shade (formerly yellow ochre shade)
Greens:
Colorless Blender is great to mix 2 or more shades on a petal - seamless ombre/gradient from one color to the other. It is not a color, and it is not white, it is a silky medium to blend 2 or more colors.
Good link about how to mix PanPastel colors.
In class I use my stash of edible dust colors however if you are going to make flowers at home you will find the quality and deep pigments of the PanPastel brand unsurpassed.
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