Paul Rubens Oil Pastels, Artist Soft Titanium White Pastels 6 Per Pack, Easy to Mix with Multi-colors for All-purpose Oil Pastel Techniques(White)

Excellent product. Especially for highlights.

I love this item. Pastels work amazing, a lot better than most other soft pastels. Awesome quality!

Correspond à la description. Pour moi très bon produit

The colors are great, and have a decent pacity, they are super super soft, softer than lipstick, don't layer well due to softness

It is a very good choice, the pastels themselves layer perfectly. THey are a little bit too buttery though, and smell slightly off; but I really do not mind about these two characteristics. Actually, the reason I lowered my ranking is that the palette is very limited, especially no sap green available. I know that a flower palette is supposed to be limited, but sap green is a color that IS very used in botanical illustration. And these while there are several colors that look very similar. The palette is really pleasing, I was just a bit disappointed by the lack of variety in the greens.

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.