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

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.

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.

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 are amazing for blending, the colour puts on nicely and the pastels feel creamy. I'm still a beginner so I cant compare to many other brands other than the pentel pastels, and there's a clear quality difference between the two. These blend really well for the price (and are very vibrant).The white is amazing, you can layer the colours well and since the white is so opaque you can put it on top of colours and it'll still come through.However, I found that some of the pastels blended better than others.For example, the silver didn't blend well at all, as well as one blue colour, but since the others blended well I could recreate those colours with other pastels.

These pastels are outstanding. Very soft - you can even use with a palette knife. Mix well and merge and tone with fingers. Absolutely love them and will now buy the pastel coloured range as well. Work brilliantly with mixed mediums. Cannot recommend highly enough.

The pastels are beautiful and creamy and this is a great colour selection. I bought them for myself.However if you are buying for someone else, BE AWARE. The box was pretty obviously bashed up BEFORE Amazon packed it, as the Amazon packaging was not damaged and would have been unacceptable as a present.

One picture I did with these, I managed to sell in our local exhibition. Lovely to use, plenty of colours.

I purchased these 2 years ago based on reviews. Unfortunately, they turned out to be of the poorest quality. Some are creamy, while others feel like a wax chalk. More than a half of sticks are unusable: they peel and leave unblendable lumps. I am not especially fond of the colour selection either. To put it mildly, I am disappointed. I took my time to test them before writing this review, but eventually I just threw them away. Beware