Oil Pastels, 72 Floral Colors Artist Soft Oil Pastel Set Vibrant and Creamy, Pastels Art Supplies Suitable for Artists, Beginners, Students, Art Painting Drawing

Good pastels really soft

I'd never heard of this brand before stumbling across it on Amazon and I decided to give them a go after noticing in the photos that the pigments and lightfastness rating are clearly written on each stick - something usually reserved for a high grade oil pastel at least twice the price of these. I expected to be disappointed but instead I'm absolutely blown away! They're near the Senneliers in terms of their soft creamy texture, definitely softer than Neopastels. These oil pastels lay on almost like paint in rich, thick, lush strokes. They mix with and cover each other beautifully. The sticks are huge! I've only tried these out in one painting on Clairefontaine Paint-On Natural paper so far, but I have no doubt that they'll perform just as well on Pastelmat or similar. The attached image shows a section of the painting (about 2 inches by 1 inch in size) to show how paint-like the application is. The darker blue covered the light turquoise oil pastel undercoat without needing scraping off or setting up over night, it just laid right on top. UPDATE 2020-01-17 I've just popped back on to say that I have now completed nine paintings with these oil pastels and, hands down, these are the best oil pastels I've ever used. The different sticks have slightly different characteristics, as provided by the pigments used in them. They're not lipstick-greasy like the Senneliers, just soft and painterly. They cover each other with no problems, just laying down right on top of whatever you colour you put down first. They also harden quite a lot overnight. Apart from a few colours missing from the set, like some greys and darks, I can't see myself buying any other brand in future.

Great texture and rich colour - however a few of them are much more oily than the rest

Fantastic colours and really good at blending together. Definitely recommend!

Sent this set back but only because I didn’t realise there are no new colours it’s just a curated set. As oil pastels go these are my favourite brand even over my expensive big brands so creamy and easy to work with. Easy to blend and lay down smoothly. I will say not all colours are up to the same standard a couple are almost gloppy and it took real effort to make them work and blend but most colours just lay down easily.

This is my first time using oil pastels, so I don't really have anything to compare them to, but this seems to be a really lovely set! So soft and smooth to use, and seem easy to blend too. The colours are lovely pastel tones, but still vibrant. At first glance the colours seem kinda similar, but there's a really nice balance of cool and warm tones in each shade. I don't have pastel paper yet, but I couldn't resist doing a quick scribbly Swatch - in the pictures I've just used grey and black mixed media paper and they went on lovely! There's also 3 whites in the macaron set which is helpful - you always need more white! I would recommend and am excited to use these more!

its good product and quality are allright for the price, but they came in some random liquid, im not sure what is it, but that does not bother to much

These pastel are rich in colour, smooth to use & nicely blend able, not to forget the gold stick, beautiful, shame, no silver soft pastel though! That's fine, however, will buy another box soon. Thank you so very much. Great product .

Des couleurs riches en pigments une couvrance extraordinaire !! Je recommande vivement

Correspond à la description. Pour moi très bon produit

The colors are great, and have a decent pacity, they are super super soft, softer than lipstick, don't layer well due to softness

Bin sehr zufrieden. Dami malen macht Spass.😊

It is a very good choice, the pastels themselves layer perfectly. THey are a little bit too buttery though, and smell slightly off; but I really do not mind about these two characteristics. Actually, the reason I lowered my ranking is that the palette is very limited, especially no sap green available. I know that a flower palette is supposed to be limited, but sap green is a color that IS very used in botanical illustration. And these while there are several colors that look very similar. The palette is really pleasing, I was just a bit disappointed by the lack of variety in the greens.