Unison Colour was founded by artist John Hersey in 1987. Light and colour were a life-long obsession, and when he found that industrially made pastels could not give him what he was looking for, he set about creating his own soft pastels. Today, Unison Colour are renowned all over the world for the creaminess and intensity of their handmade soft pastels. Each pastel is made by hand in the workshops and coach house at Thorneyburn, in the heart of Northumberland National Park, UK.
Soft pastel is one of the most direct approaches an artist can take to colour. Unison Colour pastels contain very little binder, making them the closest to painting with pure pigment as an artist can get. We paid Unison Colour a visit to watch the soft pastel-making process from beginning to end, and find out more about the unique colour vision behind them.
0:00 Introduction
0:15 On Location Unison Colour
0:21 Unison workshops and coach house at Thorneyburn, in the heart of Northumberland National Park, UK
0:52 Weighing pigment
1:20 Mixing water, pigment and kaolin clay
1:34 Dividing the mixture and placing it onto blotting paper
1:51 Hand rolling Blue Green 14, Yellow 1 and Green 8 pastels
2:17 Cutting Yellow 1 pastels with two palette knives
2:34 Batch checking by swatching pastel colours
2:46 Hand applying labels to the dried pastels
2:59 Placing pastels in individual boxes by hand
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