Oil Pastel Set, Artist Oil Pastels, Oil Art Kit, Includes 48 Brightly Colored HAIYA Soft Oil Pastels + 1 Palette Knife+ 1 Roll of Masking Tape+ 1 Acrylic Marker + 10 Oil Pastel Paper

These are great. They’re super smooth, and layer beautifully. There’s a bit of a learning curve like with all oil pastels but they’re convenient and easy to use once you’re used to the texture. The colors are pigmented and really beautiful. They work well with other materials, and I’ve been able to add them into my mixed media journals. I haven’t had any issues with them breaking and they’re a great size. This is definitely one of my new favorite art supplies. They’re super smooth also come with paper, so you can get started right away.

I'm so in love with these oil pastels, they are by far the best ones I've purchased, definitely worth the price! They are so creamy and by far the best blending I've gotten from oil pastels. As you'll see by the many mistakes I've made in my drawing, I am new to art and new to using oil pastels and techniques, but the difference between this drawing with these oil pastels and my previous drawings using other brands, this one came out the best and most like what I was wanting 😊 so i highly recommend these. I got the whole kit they have which I also recommend because it has everything a beginner needs and their products didn't damage my drawing like others have to my past art projects. I hope this helps.

Wonderful choice of oil pastels, especially for a first timer. This set is within reach of the quality of very expensive sets, like Caran D’ache or Sennelier. Those top shelf brands are very good, but their cost is not proportionate to their quality. These Paul Rubens are 96% as good for a fraction of the price.. A few thoughts about oil pastels, especially for beginners and first time users. 1. Relative to many other art supplies (graphite pencils, charcoal, oil-based colored pencils, watercolor paint), you will go through oil pastels very quickly. I use them daily, and depending on the size of my artwork, I go through most of a set in a month or two. So, start out with something affordable. Especially when you first start using oil pastels, you will be experimenting/making drafts and practice studies/making mistakes. Affordable art supplies will encourage you to not be too conservative. Buy them to USE them and to USE THEM UP. This Paul Rubens set is perfect for getting into oil pastel art work. When you get good enough to sell your art for a couple thousand dollars per piece, you can shift up to the slightly better and outrageously more expensive brands. 2. DO NOT GET SETS IN WOODEN BOXES OR FANCY METAL TRAYS. You are getting charged for that stuff! Put your money into the oil pastels, not the snobby packaging. I keep mine in the case they came in, which is perfectly suitable until they get worn down and I need a new set, Then the older ones go in a drawer or shoe box. A fancy wooden case is wasteful and unnecessary. 3. Do not buy sets of more than 48 or 60 colors. Part of the fun of oil pastels is playing with color mixing and blending: making your own colors. You’ll never need 100 or 120 colors. Instead, buy (or make) a small glass palette (buy a little $4 sheet of 10”x12” cut glass at the hardware store and a piece of white formcore and wrap them together on the edges with white duct tape). Now you have a perfect palette to mix thousands of hues with just a set of 48 colors. Make notes and swatches of your mixes for later reference. 4. Oil pastels are very sensitive to room temperature. In a warm room with lots of natural light they will be extra creamy (and a little messy on your hands, which is a huge part of the fun of using them). In the wintertime or in a cooler AC room, they will be stiffer and a little harder to work with. 5. Someone in the comments complained that these Paul Rubens tend to leak oil through the paper wrapping. To which I say: of course. They are oil pastels. This happens, especially if the room is warm, and more so with the darker colors (which absorb more light and room temperature). I use them so quickly that the wrapping gets peeled off soon anyway. Having lots of non-latex gloves around is helpful. Leaking oil is not really an issue with oil pastels. If it’s really bothersome, work in a cooler room. 6. Get a brand of oil pastels that allows you to buy individual sticks, especially of white. You will go through a single stick of white 10x faster than any other color. Paul Rubens sells an inexpensive box of 6 additional stick of white. Buy that now! 7. A couple other things you will want to get now: a good quality, slightly-textured art paper/notebook. Don’t use printer paper. Some smooth Bristol card stock is nice, too. Have lots and lots of paper towels on hand for constant clean-up. Get some precision-tipped cotton squabs, not just rounded bathroom Q-tips. Get the ones that look like little arrowheads of cotton. And if color mixing on a palette is a thing you want to try, get a tiny little bottle of linseed oil. Just a tiny single drop will make your color mixing easier. Do not use food oil or baby oil. Use traditional oil painter’s linseed oil. Again, these are a great set, especially for starters. I’ve been using oil pastels professionally for years, and I buy and use this Paul Rubens high-quality and inexpensive brand regularly. Enjoy them! Use them! Use them up! It will bring joy (and some fun, creative messiness) in to your life!!

Love these, they are the creamiest pastels you can get in this price range. I think it goes with all oil pastels, but they obviously need some experience to use really well. I love them though, they last an average amount of projects. Only reason for 4 stars is it seems that there is sometimes a bit too much variability in the moisture / oil content of individual pastels. Out of 48 of my last box I'd say about 10 of them were a little drier than I'd like to see and about 10 were way oilier than the others. Doesn't make too big of a difference overall, but some people are picky. TL:DR, GREAT for the price, very creamy, good range of colors, occasionally some come a little too dry or oily. Buy them!

Creamy, high pigment, excellent! Blends easily or holds up for something more textured. The "kit" includes a small palette knife, small oil pastel paper/cards, Paul Ruebens masking tape, and a black acrylic brush pen! Love it! Level up without breaking the bank!

Good quality, iam just beginning to play around with oil pastels and these seem to be great quality for the price. Nice and creamy and fairly easy to work with. Iam happy with them.

Very smooth, creamy texture, nice to use. I've only ever used the Walmart version of oil pastels, so this was a fun change. Nice variety of color. The pastels are pretty large around, so I'm personally not great at detail work with them, but someone with more experience could probably make it work. They blend so nicely!

Love these!

Très bons pastels à l'huile. J'en suis très satisfaite et les recommance

J'adore tellement et je le recommande

So sticky and grabs all the hairs in the air in the sticks, in the box and on your work plus it never dries. Not cool!