Unison Ocean Blue 1 Soft Pastel

Overview

Unison Ocean Blue 1 Soft Pastel is a luminous cool blue created as part of Unison's distinctive Ocean Blue range. Developed in collaboration with seascape artist Zaria Forman the range was designed to capture the remarkable sapphire blues found in ancient glacial ice. Ocean Blue 1 brings clear cool colour to seascapes skies ice snow and reflected light while retaining the subtle grey character that gives the Ocean Blue family its natural quality.

Why Artists Choose This

• Luminous cool blue with a subtle grey character
• Part of the Ocean Blue range developed for glacial and seascape colour
• Excellent for water sky ice snow and reflected light
• Highly pigmented with Unison's characteristic soft smooth texture
• Useful for layering and blending complex atmospheric blues

How to Use It

Use Ocean Blue 1 in cool passages where you want clear blue colour without an overly artificial intensity. Layer it into skies water ice and snow or combine it with neighbouring Ocean Blues to build subtle changes in temperature and value. Its slightly greyed quality also makes it useful for atmospheric distance and reflected light. Unison soft pastels can be used wet or dry on a broad range of pastel surfaces.

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