Paul RubensOil Pastels Set - 72 Vibrant Colors, Ultra-Soft and Creamy Texture, Easy to Blend for Artists and Beginners - Bullet Head Design for Drawing, Painting, Sketching

Super soft!!!! Great for impasto and doing final layers over other firmer oil pastels. This is a great set with some very nice color selections. You’ll need to buy some extra white oil pastels though. Otherwise, these are fantastic oil pastels.

These are wonderful, soft and easy to apply impasto directly to the paper, lovely colors, strongly pigmented, my new favorites. They are oily but that is what makes them so nice to work with, though the sticks are a bit more prone to breakage. I wouldn't hand these out as a first oil pastel to children but for adult artists - "Chef's Kiss"

Ok, ok, ok. Just hear me out. This is a GREAT set if you're first breaking in to oil pastels and you want a wide array of colors that blend well. They're pretty soft and the set of colors is surprisingly pigmented. They take well to a variety of surfaces and are a good buy.That being said, when I first opened this set, oh boy was I hit with a weird smell. By weird, I mean think of the most pungent box of crayons you could find - and leave them out on a playground in a hot day in the middle of the summer. If you're not in a well ventilated room beware, it's pretty irritating after a while. That being said, the box it comes in contains the smell pretty well as long as you keep the foam. Additionally, the pastels have an incredibly oily texture that seems to permeate through the wrapping, making each pastel very slippery and sometimes challenging to grip.That being said they're a dream to work with for this price point compared to some other more expensive brands.

The quality of the Paul Rueben's Oil Pastels are incredible! They blend magnificently and are a pleasure to use. The colors are brilliant and they maintain their luster. They are by far the best set of oil pastels that Ihave purchased in the last forty years.

The colors are really nice and I am really happy that there was a card included in there to test the colors on paper. Like other the comments have mentioned some of the colors are more smooth and soft than other colors. Overall I’m really happy with this set, wish I got the set with the most colors I didn’t realize i needed more colors until I started using it. But it’s great value and quality. I will be buying from them again when I run out

I got the 48 pack of oil pastels and I absolutely love them! They are a creamy consistency and while I understand other reviews that say that they were greasy, I only found two in my set that we like this (I just wiped them off and they were fine). Overall, they are super high quality and have beautiful colors.

So far, I'm in love with these oil pastels. They glide across paper smoothly, are richly pigmented, oily, blend beautifully, and don't have a particularly strong or irritating scent. I look forward to using these alongside oil paint.

The media could not be loaded. I wish I could up the stars. I really do. There’s just too many things wrong to give it more than three. Some of it is easy fixes like AutoCorrect other things are not so happy. I have a missing color with a replacement of the exact same color and I will show that in the video. However, the reason for the three stars is because they are beautiful colors as you can see in the video that I took. They’re absolutely gorgeous. They lay down beautifully smooth they even blend nicely. I had to use a Q-tip to blend all mine cause I didn’t want that oily residue every time I touch the page so mine are not even as vibrant as they would be. Had I not smooth it down with Q-tip so yes, I would recommend them as far as that goes, but I would say be careful after you open the box if you’re looking for anything that had quality control or attention to detail.