SENNELIER Oil French Pastel for Professional Artists, Introductory Set of 48

I have the main 48 colors but if you’re looking for something with portrait or skin tones, I would suggest getting the portrait set. If you have both like me, there are some repeat colors. I absolutely love the packaging. It’s worth the money. The quality is beyond what you pay for, they are soft without being too soft. They are easy to blend and layer. You will end up with pigment all over your hands though. So be careful when touching your art. Having said that. I would recommend getting a cheaper set like the lightwish oil pastels so you don’t end up using your very expensive ones on your first layer of art. This is what I compare all other oil pastels to. I love these.

These oil pastels and the best you can buy that are not professional. They are well made and blend beautifuly.

Love Sennelier oil pastels! Very easy to work with and beautiful colors! Very easy to blend.

These are great oil pastels, super soft and silky to use but beware, they can be used up easily because its difficult to control how much you use and too much pressure using a pastel stick can cause it to crumble or break. I love the colors and they blend wonderfully. If you are buying these I would recommend getting an extra large white oil pastel because Ive already used up my white and had to order more.

I am IN LOVE … all colors are important and it do mix very well as you see I did some artwork… I have been wanting it for years now and yes it’s amazing and I recommend it because cheap ones will not mix this professional level …

Great top of the line pastels. Creamy, sheer, rich in color. Very pleased.

Best description is creamy

Great product, recommend for artist who know how to use pastels. If you’re a beginner I don’t recommend. Since they are too expensive.

I very much like these!! Im new to the medium and had tried a cheaper lower quality brand. Definitely recommend spending the dollars, the blending is seamless in comparison, I think I found a new addiction.

I didn't realise these were trial/tester/taster sized (measure about 3.5 x 0.5cm), smaller than an actual lipstick!!! Anyway, that is the only negative, for these are a real eye opener to what real oil pastels are and can do. And I though oil pastels were all the same! I bought a cheap box of Faber Castell pastels (not even as cheap as those raved about Pentel pastels) last year and found them crumbly, difficult or impossible to blend (some are so resistant that once apple, do not move from the surface, resisting any blending, even with solvent/ODM) and plain rancid, kept so long forgotten about in my cupboard. The colour varied too, some were semi transparent (full of binder no doubt), others were super bright and fine, were the texture not so poor. These in comparison, being artist quality, are in all earnest, beautiful to use. They have no smell, are so soft that when I wipe them clean between my fingertips they seem to melt (and indeed do at higher temps), and light strokes are so pigmented, the colour stretches. They are so, so, so easy to blend - with finger, stump and yes, solvent. They layer easily, and being oil pastels you can't be mean with your touch, but several layers only add such depth, form and rich colour. I would say they're softer than lipstick. I also bought the Sennelier transparent oil pastel blender before this set and that enough convinced me to try these pastels for it's texture astounded me (and alas, not included in this set), another great tool for blending and in many cases, better than your finger (I thought I'd be clever and try a plain wax candle, and nope, they don't work the same, if at all, for they are not the same thing: candle wax at RT is hard, the pastel blender is as soft as the pastels themselves in the same conditions.) All the pastels wear out too quickly for my taste but that depends on pressure and how many layers you apply, as does the blender, but they all clean easily with your finger. No crumbling yet (you know, hard bits of hard pastel all over the place that are so hard, that only a lighter will melt), as I've seen. I am dreading having to replace them for the real sized pastels will be costly individually. The selection is wide, from earth shades, a flesh I think, all the primaries and many secondaries, and best of all, a selection of chromatic greys. And may I note, the white is the softest yet, it is so creamy it resembles oil paint. They suggest their own oil pastel paper, but I prefer smoother paper, so that the pastel does not fight with the grain. This way, I don't lose so much pastel to the the paper either. Also, unlike non-professional pastels, they're not permanent, that is, works smudge easily. Keep these away form the kids, they're far too expensive for play.

Beautiful creamy oil pastels great assortement.

Prodotto ottimo, non c’è altro da dire.

Rich, dense colours and very soft pastels makes for gorgeous movement on your canvas, seamless colour mixing, and better overall compositions. For people using oil pastels instead of oil paints, these are great and far more affordable than oil sticks provided you have the right mediums. These were surprisingly great value for money, came quickly, and in great condition. I will absolutely be buying again.