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- #30 in Drawing Pastels
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Stephanie Brent
Reviewed in the United States on January 24, 2025
I bought this brand of oil pastels because they were used by an art teacher I follow. They are noticeably easier to blend than other moderate price traditional oil pastels. It's a nice range of colors. I'd buy this brand again.
Bernard Webster
Reviewed in the United States on July 7, 2024
Vacation drawing.
Rachel Zamora
Reviewed in the United States on March 23, 2024
A wonderful set for artist of any skill range. I see these on sale fairly often and it's really just a great value for the amount of colors
Kindle Customer
Reviewed in the United States on October 30, 2024
This brand was the first oil pastel to come on the market. They were invented in 1925. I have been using them since 1964 when I was a teenager who couldn't afford oil paints and all the products that are needed to use it properly. Over the years I have used other oil pastels including the water soluble kind, but I find Cray-Pas to be my favorite and these days I just don't bother with any other brand. I like this expressionist set very much. The colors are beautiful and vibrant, and the 2 extender/blender sticks that were included will make it easy to get the effects I want.
Christian sv Beatrice Tasmania
Reviewed in Australia on August 24, 2023
Prompt delivery which affects work expectations, and means continuity in producivity and employer satisfaction.
tenniis
Reviewed in the United States on June 22, 2023
I found these oil pastels to be pretty good quality. To cut to the chase these are a decent quality, but nowhere as good as other oil pastels. Sure, they are a bit creamy but it’s not the smoothest application. It took me awhile to build the layers of color because of their stiffness, so I ended up using a lot more pastel than expected. Overall, I think these are good if you want to try out pastels that are a higher quality, but don’t want to shell out a million dollars for Senneliers to try out.The only issues I have with this set is that there aren’t a lot of browns to choose from when doing animal portraits.I had an oil pastel set before that was honestly horrendous, but this pastel set has lifted my faith in this medium. I look forward to doing more portraits and experimenting with these.
Nobody Mc nobody
Reviewed in the United States on August 20, 2021
So I have to say I’m a total newbie to pastels this is my 3rd time ever using them. The first two times I used pastels from one of those all in one art kits that people give to new artists well those were not great quality so I looked online for some affordable but still quality pastels and theses had good ratings. I thought they blended nicely (my problem is over blending I’m still learning also I need to get actual paper for drawing with pastels) I like the color choices and vibrancy. Like I said I’m new so I don’t know what high end pastels are like but do know what the low end were like and these were much better. I recommend theses
Vickyg
Reviewed in the United Kingdom on May 30, 2021
I bought these as they are what is used by the art class I’m attending. I am just a beginner but they’re easy to use, feel nice, blend well and the colours are great. The picture is the very first oil pastel work I’ve done.
Julie T from AZ
Reviewed in the United States on June 3, 2020
I bought this as an abstract artist that primarily works acrylic on canvas and wanted to add some mixed media to my work. I can't speak to anything other than that.It works for my purposes wonderfully. I have so many colors to choose from, and the sticks are a generous size. I started out with the kid's pack, and these are more generous in size. There are still a couple of favorite colors that I am going through fairly quickly, but this set is going to last me some time.The colors are great. It is kind of like drawing with crayons. Not water soluable, for that I got my neocolor IIs, but for oil pastels you can't go wrong with these.
Betty Montero
Reviewed in Mexico on May 10, 2018
A mi hija le gustó mucho, se lo compre como regalo de día del niño, y no me arrepiento, estaba en oferta y muy buen producto. Ideal para fomentar a los niños que se inclinan por el dibujo para que mejoren sus técnicas.
M. Wittgenstein
Reviewed in Germany on September 29, 2017
Es handelt sich um sehr schöne Stifte für ausdrucksstarke Bilder. Das Produkt kam schnell und genau wie abgebildet an. Vielen Dank.
Helen9081
Reviewed in Spain on November 24, 2017
Estos colores de Sakura, que aparecen como "Expresionistas" no son pasteles al óleo, son simples ceras, como lo conocemos en España, no llevan aceite de linaza, deben estar tratadas con parafina. Lo explico poque observo que en muchas marcas aparecen también con la misma denominación y son simples crayolas o ceras. Los tonos de los colores son variados, pero en cuanto a calidad dejan que desear, tenemos las ceras Manley españolas, que son fabulosas y las hay de 50 colores y mucho más económicas. La gran mayoría de las pinturas que aparecen como pasteles al óleo, incluidas las Faber Castell, que también las he comprado son ceras y por tanto bastante caras. Estoy pendiente de recibir las de Sennelier, por lo cual no puedo opinar aún, pero quizás sean las únicas que son al óleo y posiblemente las de Windsor & Newton.
LW Raboys
Reviewed in the United States on March 29, 2016
Previously, I wrote a review saying these are good but Sakura's "Specialist" line is better. It's not better, just different. If you've used regular pastels and are new to oil pastels (as I was when I wrote my initial review) these are as close to good quality, soft, dry pastels as you will find. There are others that look like they are similar to soft dry pastels, like Holbein and Van Gogh, but they are overly dry which make it difficult to get a rich surface.The Specialist are square thus more like square dry pastels. Each has its uses and I recommend getting both if you can afford both, plus a few buttery Senneliers for some finishing touches. (Available in single colors from sites like Dick Blick).The colors for both the Expressionst and Specialist lines are similar, and both can be used for covering broad areas and underpainting, but the square is advantageous when making fine lines and for hard edges.I highly recommend both!The colors of the Expressionist and Specialist lines are very similar. If you are switching from dry pastels to oils, start with the type you are used to, square or round, but ultimately you'll find both useful - the square especially for fine lines and hard edges.
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