Professional Pastel Blending Brushes Transitions Blenders Allow the pastellists to select the perfect blending tool while working, from the fine, soft subtle fan brush to the deep blending stiffness of the round badger hair blender. These blending brushes have been carefully selected to ensure All types of blending are covered, creating virtuAlly any Painting effect with soft pastels, hard pastel sticks, charcoals, and various chalks. Transitions Blender Brushes can even be utilized with water or denatured alcohol for wet pastel Painting techniques on backgrounds, and to fine tune areas with wet blending. Expertly fashioned from the finest Natural and synthetic hairs, Each blender head is mounted on Quality Wood lacquered handles and set firmly in durable, plated ferrules. Blend even the finest Pigments in the tightest areas. Set of 6 Style 1 & 2 (semi-soft extra smAll and smAll blenders) Style 3 (extra-soft medium mop blender) Style 5 (smAll foam applicator) Style 8 (medium semi-soft Natural hair stencil-style blender) Style 11 (semi-soft smAll angular blender) Creative Mark spent months working with pastel artists, asking them what their needs were. It occurred to them shortly after this study that pastel artists had great pastel, fantastic papers but only marginal blenders. Transitions are a series of 12 blending brushes created especially for the pastel artist. They allow the pastel artist to select from the fine, soft, subtle blending of a fan brush to the rigorous, deep blending of the stiff round badger hair blender. These brushes have been carefully selected to ensure that no opportunity is missed and that the pastel artist can achieve virtually any painting effect with soft pastels, hard pastel sticks, oil pastels and various chalks and charcoals. Transitions have received rave reviews and are already being credited as a whole new way to achieve greater depth and beauty in pastel painting. Expertly fashioned out of the finest natu