Jack Richeson
and Company, Inc.
Fine Art Materials
557 Marcella Street,
Kimberly, WI
1-800-233-2404
557 Marcella Street,
Kimberly, WI
1-800-233-2404
Out of frustration with the pastels available, British artist, John Hersey began making handmade pastels. Developed to be superior in color, texture and response, Unison Soft Pastels are unlike anything on the market today. John Hersey worked out his unique color formulations over a decade of experimentation, creating intense, vibrant colors, blended almost exclusively from pure pigment and water.
As an artist, I was at a point where I needed to work in pastels,” Hersey says. “But the pastels I tried seemed to be utterly ridiculous. They had no sense in them -- just infinite numbers of similar tints. Most of them were very thin and wrapped in paper so that if there were any cracks, the paper disguised it. Hersey had been using soft charcoals for years, and loved the texture of the medium and the boldness of the absolute black it offered. His work in black and white gave him a keen awareness of light and shadow. He wanted to translate that awareness to the use of color. But he could not find pastels that suited him in either performance or color.
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