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WMS
Reviewed in the United States on December 24, 2024
These are great quality soft pastels, worth every cent. All different shades, from white grays and black. Great size, made to be broken. Don’t be surprised if they come broken. They are soft, so they’re going to break. Most people break them into smaller pieces on purpose to use them where they want. They blend pretty well, too.
Kate A.
Reviewed in the United States on December 1, 2022
The set I received has one white, three medium light gray, four medium dark gray, and four almost black sticks. If you are expecting "two each of Gray, Dark Gray, Medium Gray, Light Gray, and Very Light Gray, plus one Black and one White," you, like me, may be disappointed. It's possible that the product was changed but the description wasn't. I did test these pastels on white paper to make sure that I received only the four values rather than seven. They are as soft as they should be to be called soft pastels and will work well for value studies and monochromatic grey paintings.
LC
Reviewed in Canada on June 8, 2021
These are quite soft, but they are easy to work with and give a decent range of gray shades.
GrenadeBait
Reviewed in Canada on June 16, 2021
The pictures say it all! I paid nearly $20 CAD for these grayscale soft pastels and was surprised at how small the pack is! I know it’s only a 12 pack but I thought each pastel stick would be larger, but no, they are about the standard medium size, therefore over priced.Also, one would think that because they are only grayscale; ranging from black to white that they would be cost less than a full colour range pack, but no, therefore they are overpriced.I could have bought far cheaper higher quantity soft pastel product online or even locally but I only need the greyscale shades so I settled for this. Sadly they are overpriced and to add insult to injury, more than half the pastels are broken…!Some key features, besides being overpriced and broken, is that there is only one (1) white pastel and the rest are three (3) light grey, four (4) dark grey, and four (4) black (charcoal)I definitely wouldn’t buy these again and would only recommend them if the price dropped and you’re desperate for greyscale soft pastels.I only rated them 2 because even though they are overpriced and broken they are what I needed for my project.
Timarie
Reviewed in Canada on March 30, 2021
Not graduated greys. Its a black, med grey and light grey nothing in-between and very cheaply made. Very very brittle and light weight. Not worth the money.
tatianna jumpp
Reviewed in the United States on December 26, 2021
Not as hard as other high quality chalk pastels but gets the job done
Daniel
Reviewed in Canada on November 9, 2020
good and rapid
mrsseaque
Reviewed in the United States on February 3, 2018
Worked well for me.
Faythe A.
Reviewed in the United States on April 12, 2017
awesome
SB
Reviewed in the United States on August 17, 2016
I ordered these for my art class and they arrived quickly. They do break very easily, but I think that's pretty typical. However, none were broken when they arrived.
Beadlover71
Reviewed in the United States on October 19, 2016
Easy to use, good quality product. One was broken, but that didn't matter as I break them anyway to make them easier to use.
NotSoGranola
Reviewed in the United States on April 13, 2013
I purchased so many different kinds of chalk for my kids to use in our art class. This is a pure joy to sketch with. The chalk is pretty soft and expect it to arrive with broken pieces, but it's chalk and will work just fine broken. I love the varying shades and had a tough time finding a set like this.
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