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Actually there are a great deal of dark pastels available nowadays. The quality and color range in the last 5 years have exploded.
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That's good to hear. About that long ago, we were frustrated at the studio that our huge, expensive sets of pastels didn't have deep rich darks to work with, and I was "commissioned" to go forth and find some, somewhere, or else bring my own head back on a platter.
Fond of that head, I did, in fact, collect a dozen or more such pastel sticks, from a variety of art stores and manufacturers (including an Australian brand, Art Spectrum, that I liked a lot), and we kept those darks in a separate box so that they would be readily at hand and not get mixed in with everything else.
Perhaps manufacturers "got the word" and have made these easier to locate without a GPS and lots of inside information. Squeaky wheel gets the grease, and so on.