Paul Rubens Oil Pastels, 8 Black Oil Pastels for Artists and Beginners

First time trying oil pastels. These are very buttery and quickly break in half, wrappers coming off. You will be delightfully covered in color as you use them. Work well on mixed media paper and wood! My main canvas type is wood and these worked nicely on them. They blend well but yes, it is a technique or skill to learn how to layer without pulling away color. These meet my expectations.

These DO have the linseed oil mess/smell that others have mentioned, but they're OIL pastels so maybe keep them in the fridge if you live in a hot climate. Be prepared to get some oil on your fingers anyway, a paper towel was necessary for me to not get the paper all oily from touching it. For the swatch sheet, I smudged each upwards with my finger and left it heavy on the bottom. In the test doodle I went pretty heavy on the mimikyu costume, particularly the tail. Zero complaints about layering the colors, how well they mix together on the paper (I used Paul Rubens oil pastel paper as well) or the amount of pigment present. A light hand and thin layers built up work well with these and they're soft enough to NEED a light hand. The darker colors seemed to be less oily than the mid and light tones, so the texture was a little different for those and they needed a little more pressure, which you can see in my swatch sheet.

Just arrived & swatched! I am so so happy with these. I have been buying brand after brand. I love the creaminess of them. This is exactly what I have been looking for I love the color palette and really look forward to working and blending with these. Very satisfied!

The colors were great.They are soft and the colors are vibrant they blend well and were worth the buy.

I was skeptical when I bought these. I've been trying to find some oil pastels that are as nice as Sennilier, but affordable. These are the closest to Sennilier that I've found. None of the hype I read was false. These are the softest, smoothest oil pastels I've found. They're terrific! I'm going to buy the full set next time I buy. I highly recommend.

Wow wow wow. These oil pastels are super buttery and easy to use and blend. I’m no pro but these are amazing for what I wanted to do. They do smear easily but I like that for blending purposes. For the price, I’d say these are a steal.

love it. The colors are so pretty, they blend really well. Thank you.

There is not one thing I disliked about the pastels . The quality is excellent! You see. I’m a beginner and the church was the very first painting I’ve done that I am pretty proud of. I couldn’t have done it without the quality of pigmentation, ease of glide and all the colors I need for a painting of pretty good composition. For its brand name , Paul Ruben , this was well worth the price. The only thing is I have run out of white and black, but that’s probably normal.

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Oily and messy, bright colours, I love working these with a palette knife. No idea about the colour permanence. Wish they did boxes of individual colours but cannot find any way of contacting the company or customer services to find out.

Me encantaron! Pintan similar a los sennelier

Excelente

Amaaaazing Colors and very soft It arrived broken and little melted and mixed up Colors on corners but that is ok