SENNELIER Extra-Soft French Half Pastel Professional Artist Box Set, 30-Colors

These are delicate pastels! But they were well packaged and arrived intact! Thank you! I will look for your products in the future!

I use a lot of Sennelier, but have a few very nice Unison sticks from their dark set on hand. When I decided to buy a whole set of darks, I thought about getting the Unison set, but it includes fewer colors than the Sennelier set of darks and is quite a bit more expensive. The strange thing is, I held off buying the Sennelier darks because I tried a few out during a visit to my local art supply and a couple of them seemed a bit hard and crunchy (very strange for Sennelier). I thought that perhaps they had just been sitting around for twenty years. Still, that's a lot of cash to spend to find out all you've got is hard, crusty sticks to show for it. I finally took the plunge when I received a gift certificate. The darks I received were every bit as soft as the Unisons I had been using, but they are a bit more brilliant. The bottom line is this: if you want a high-quality set of really soft dark pastels, your options are limited and often very expensive; Unison was the least expensive up from Sennelier, and they cost about thirty dollars more for fewer sticks. I suppose you could start thinking about Terry Ludwig's "Intense Darks l" and "Intense Darks ll," but now you're talking about $160.00 for thirty sticks (but, let me tell you, they are beautiful). What you get with the Sennelier dark set is a box of terrific light-fast colors that are as soft or softer than the ultra-expensive handmade pastels, but at about sixty bucks. Not bad, not bad at all.

If you want to experience thicker, full color capable of working over other oil pastels, you can't beat these. However, I suggest laying in with a less expensive brand, then work over that layer with these. The Sennelier company uses rich pigment but its more difficult to do line work, more like working with hard lipstick. (I would think. Never wore lipstick, I swear!) These are rich enough to blend with a brush or wet with mineral spirits to thin.

I find these lovely consistency and very vibrant. I like them, but I cannot say I would continue to spend this much on them since I actually have discovered some lesser expensive and almost equal qualities.

This was my first experience using Sennelier pastels. The pigment load is outstanding, and they are creamy soft. But they tend to crumble far too easily for me. Excellent quality, just a little softer than I like. I prefer the Jack Richesons and the Unisons, which crumble less easily. But we all have different tastes, and many, many people prefer these Senneliers. If you like your pastels very soft, with a creamy, smooth application, these may well be the soft pastel for you!

Very good. Work great for being specialty! I use them like regular pastels which is kinda hard but they still work fine even though I don’t use them the way they are supposed to be used. Still work fine though. Not as easy as the regular pastels but still work wonderfully!

2 of the colours (822 and 824, both being gold hues) were rock hard and impossible to get any pigment at all on the surface.The other colours were rich and vibrant even if a bit messy, and taking the the pastel out of the sponge in the case, caused quite some pastel powder to stay behind. So I will be handling these beautiful pastels (the ones that "work") verrry carefully and putting them where I can create a lot of space around them to enable them to be picked up as whole as possible. Too bad for my gold hues. Living abroad and having everything sent through a mail forwarder doesn't really encourage returning items or having 2 pastels replaced for the whopping price it takes to get them to the Caribbean.

I've never been so pleasantly surprised trying out a new type of art medium as I am with Sennelier's iridescent pastels. I'm in love with these professional-grade, quality-producing soft pastels. They are so vibrant and fluid-like when applied, creating a gorgeous unique mood and light aspect to the painting. I have chosen to add these specific pastels to my base/core pastel painting supplies. I can't imagine a single pastelist regretting trying these out.

Questo prodotto è ottimo, la confezione permette di conservarlo al meglio. Una marca conosciuta e che rispecchia la sua fama. Il costo minore di quello che si trova normalmente.

Sehr gute Kreiden, die ein schönes Ergebnis liefern.

Tutto perfetto: confezione, consegna, interezza dei pastelli, che sono morbidi, quasi privi di legante quindi con una resa migliore e più satura.

Nunca decepciona esta marca

Ils sont magnifiques ! Je compte les utiliser par petites touches sur mes pastels alors ils dureront des années. Je suis très contente de m'être fait ce cadeau !