MUNGYO Gallery Artists' Soft Oil Pastels Professional, 48 Assorted Colors, Vibrant and Blendable

I purchased a set on a whim because it is so inexpensive. I love them. They are creamy, affordable, and the colors are fabulous. I am over 70 with arthritic hands and I can blend them with ease. They do seem to cure overnight and dry out a bit. . After one day, I ordered the 72 piece set. That’s how much I like them. This set is fine for a beginner. They give the feel of working in pastels or oils with minimal cleanup, no toxicity or odors.. Set up requires opening the box and getting a damp paper towel and some Q tips. Blick’s website rates them as nontoxic. Light fastness is poor. You can fix this by framing with UV protective glass, should you produce a masterpiece. You will run out of white quickly. Order this from Jerry’s Artarama. Or just get a different brand. If you are a beginner you will enjoy using 2 or 3 colors in one spot and possibly blending. . Certainly worth $20. Far more expensive at Jerry’s. I’m assuming this has to do with tariffs, so grab these.

Ordered these oil pastels on a whim while looking for a new medium to try my hand at. Although I'm still learning basic techniques, these pastels are so easy to work with, and come with a great variety of vibrant shades. They are buttery smooth on all types of paper, but I've found they work best on watercolor, mixed medium, or pastel paper. So far, they are all still in one piece. Super easy to blend with, and very sturdy even when applying pressure.

An EXCELLENT set of pastels, and especially so for the price!! If you purchase, you will be extremely happy with the variety and intensity of colors, as well as the variety within each hue. For example, the set includes SEVEN shades of Blue and SIX shades of red. All of them have fantastic pigmentation, are very soft and creamy, and lay down smoothly and easily. For the price I paid, I was very surprised and elated over the quality and variety of beautiful colors. I highly recommend these - you, too will be very happy and pleased with your purchase!!

These are buttery soft and the colors are vibrant. They blend perfectly as well and layer nicely. These are amazing for the price.

Pretty good set, they are buttery. Just the palette colors are not towards portraits, it's most general selection. But I will patch the needed ones with individuals sennelliers

First of all I'll say I'm happy with these pastels. I am not tremendously experienced in oil pastels but I've been experimenting recently with a lot of old craft items including a big mixed media set. I quite enjoyed the oil pastels but wanted to try something a little better without too big of an investment. These fit the bill and give me the oil pastel experience I've been lead to believe I should expect. Starting with the physical aspects, the packaging seems robust enough though the foam holding them down is a little thin. I haven't felt especially compelled to put them in a nicer box which says that (for me) they are acceptable. Despite the thin foam they came to me intact. I have previously only draw with some very cheap oil pastels (which I'll compare later) but I did try several brands that a store had in open stock. I found these to be comparably soft to the Sennelier but the feel a little more "greasy" when being applied vs the Sennelier which I'd describe as "creamy". They come in a plain cylinder form without the Sennelier bullet points (which suits me fine) but that's an obvious difference. I found that they didn't crumble much (the Cray-pas specialist crumbled more). Overall I'd say they stand up well to the competition. Next I'd like to talk about painting and blendability. I tried these out on watercolour paper, mixed media paper and pastel paper. On all 3 the softness allows them to apply readily in fairly thick layers. They smooth on the page easily with a finger, cloth or stump. They can be layered over one another but attempting to layer then blend can be tricky: it seems better to simply draw the colours in from their respective sides getting gradually thinner toward one another then smooth out perpendicular to the gradient. They worked nicely for sgraffito and all general oil pastel techniques. The colours are definitely bold but there are a few areas where I felt they lacked, for example I couldn't find a really strong primary red. Having said that I was not disappointed and doubt this will hold me back. As for value I'd like to compare to the cheap set I tried out before. They were a very cheap set of 36 from a retail store. A little measurement tells me that these are about 2x the volume (i.e. provide 2x the materlal). Accounting for that these are 2x the price per volume (compared to an absolute bottom of the line set) and about 1/4 the price of Senellier. Compared to these the cheap set I had previously feel terrible, waxy and crumbly in application with weak colours and hard to blend: these are definitely much better value. Compared to the Sennelier these are definitely not quite as pigmented or smooth or shaped as elegantly but to a beginner I doubt the difference would be that noticeable: for a beginner/student these are probably better value. Overall I'm very happy with the way these work. I definitely no longer feel I'm being limited by the media so I can work on improving my skills. If you are looking for an introduction to oil pastels I would say you won't go too far wrong with this set.

The colors in this is absolutely amazing. These pastels are super smooth and easy to use as well as fun! I can’t wait to learn more about using oil pastels!

I bought this set because of the different colors it had. Mungyo Gallery set of 48 assorted color soft oil pastels, for $20.98. It arrived in a box with a lid and each oil pastels in their own individual place in a plastic tray inside of the box. The whole box slips into another cover box. They arrived in an amazon box that had the bubble wrap to protect it from slipping around in the bigger box. The Oil pastel box itself was cover tightly with a plastics wrapping to keep the box itself from opening. They are bigger than a regular crayon which is nice. They look to be clean. The go on to the paper smoothly. They blend well. Can't wait to use them and try them on various type of paper as well as blend them with different techniques. I would recommend these. They are very nice and of good quality. For $21 dollars with a variety of 48 assorted color I would say that it is a reasonable price to pay. Anything more would be too high. Unless it has double the colors. I believe this is a well made product. It doesn't smell like some brands. An I would highly recommend this product to not only beginners but to seasoned artists. Great for any Artist's workshops/studios. Great product. Thank you.