Mount Vision Soft Pastel Set – Blue, Set of 25

Description

This professional-grade soft pastel set delivers exceptional quality through hand-rolled sticks that blend traditional and synthetic pigments for rich, vibrant blues. The carefully formulated pastels glide smoothly across paper with minimal resistance, allowing artists to build multiple layers without creating unwanted thickness or muddy colors. With 25 distinct blue shades ranging from deep navy to soft sky tones, this set provides the color range needed for detailed artistic work and color exploration.

The Mount Vision brand has earned respect among professional artists for consistent quality and reliable performance. Each pastel stick maintains its integrity through extended use while delivering the smooth application that makes soft pastels a favorite medium for both beginners and experienced artists.

How Homeschoolers Can Use This Product

Educational Benefits

This blue pastel set serves multiple educational purposes beyond basic art instruction. Students develop fine motor skills through pastel application techniques while learning color theory concepts like value, saturation, and blending. The tactile nature of pastels engages kinesthetic learners who benefit from hands-on creative activities. Working with quality art materials also teaches students to respect and care for their tools properly.

Subject Integration Activities

Geography and Social Studies: Use various blue shades to create detailed maps showing water features, from shallow coastal areas in light blue to deep ocean trenches in darker tones. Students can illustrate historical maritime routes or create topographical maps highlighting elevation through color variation.

Science Applications: Demonstrate weather patterns by layering different blues to show cloud formations, storm systems, or atmospheric layers. Create detailed diagrams of the water cycle, ocean currents, or even astronomical phenomena like nebulae and distant galaxies.

Literature and Creative Writing: Illustrate scenes from literature featuring water, sky, or winter settings. Students can create mood boards that capture the emotional tone of stories through color selection and blending techniques.

Skill-Building Projects

Begin with simple exercises like creating color gradations from light to dark blue, then progress to more complex techniques like cross-hatching and layering. Students can practice observational drawing by studying blue objects in nature or around the home. Advanced students might explore impressionistic techniques or realistic rendering of water and sky elements.

Discussion Starters

Explore the cultural significance of blue across different societies and time periods. Discuss how artists throughout history have used blue pigments, from expensive lapis lazuli in medieval manuscripts to synthetic blues in modern art. Examine how color affects mood and emotion in artistic works, and encourage students to articulate their responses to different blue tones.