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Your cart is empty. "In 1925, Sakura Color Products of Osaka, Japan, invented oil pastels using quality pigments, wax, and oil. Today, the finest elements continue to make up the Cray-Pas family of oil pastels. Cray-Pas oil pastels are the standard by which all other pastels are measured. The Expressionist color range allows students, hobbyists, and professional artists to achieve a range of painterly effects. Expressionist oil pastels are extremely smooth to apply, can create broad strokes, and allow the user to blend colors to build texture and depth.
The uniquely smooth and blendable oil pastel formula further extends the range of skin tones. Colors include salmon pink, pale orange, naples yellow, raw sienna, yellow ochre, olive brown, burnt sienna, brown, vandyke brown, sepia, black, white.
Sakura Cray-Pas oil pastels can be used for portraits, landscapes, still-life, abstracts, scratch art/sgraffito, wall art, stenciling, water color resists and more.
About Sakura
To be human is to be uniquely creative. While technology will change the way we live, only we as humans have the particular ability to imagine and unlock possibility. At Sakura of America, we foster this incomparable human capability to think, dream, experiment, and connect.
We know everyone is capable of creativity. This trait is within everyone, not just select people. Whether you are using our products for artwork, expression, problem solving, storytelling, or organization, creativity is at the core—allowing us to connect with ourselves and with others. We believe if you foster your creative abilities, you can reach your full potential.
We encourage people to take a moment to explore how creativity unlocks new perspectives, self discovery, and human connection.
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SK
Reviewed in the United States on September 2, 2024
I’m a professional artist and cray-pas are one of my favorite media. I decided at the last minute to get these as part of a present for a good friend who’s exploring the joys of drawing. I wanted these - the ones I use- not the kiddie version. I also needed fast delivery. This set was perfect and got here when I needed it. My friend is delighted with this set.
Jesse
Reviewed in Canada on July 6, 2024
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Paullus
Reviewed in the United States on March 17, 2024
I've used these several times buying at different places in person , and they're great. This time it just turns out I needed them shipped, big mistake because they arrived in bad condition, I can still use them though.
Dionne
Reviewed in the United States on September 23, 2023
Color selection is super. Sakura is def a favorite brand for art supplies. This is my first real foray into oil pastels, which I figured would be messy to work with. I got some fixative but haven’t even felt the need to use it cos these pastels aren’t terribly smudgy. They blend easily if you intend to do so however. Quite user friendly & densely pigmented- what more could u ask for?
Kunde
Reviewed in Germany on July 5, 2023
Die Ölkreiden haben ein super Preis-/Leistungsverhältnis und sind für mich als Einsteiger zum Experimentieren perfekt. Sie eignen sich für Mixed-Media und die Farbauswahl ist toll.
Patrick Hangpeng Zhang
Reviewed in the United States on June 21, 2023
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Monique Ruiter
Reviewed in the Netherlands on May 5, 2023
Fijn product om mee te werken
Del's Daughter
Reviewed in the United States on October 3, 2023
These were recommended to me by another artist. I have used other brands before and one in particular for a long time and thought that I was pleased with that brand until I used the Sakura brand. I was blown away as to how well they worked. I used them for a mixed media painting. They did not break like my other oil pastels. They gave smoother strokes that gave my artwork the emphasis that was needed. When I applied a thin coat of paint on top of the Sakura oil pastels, the result was amazing. Whereas the other brand faded away. I cannot emphasize how happy I am with the Sakura oil pastels. I will be buying Sakura's other colors now and making Sakura a permanent part of my stock of art supplies. The quality is excellent. I would highly recommend.
Henry Ramsbottom
Reviewed in Canada on November 4, 2022
Love this product. I’m using it to age the look of carriages on my model trains
Nick
Reviewed in the United States on May 22, 2020
The pastels were very nice. They were very pigmented and went smoothly onto the paper
JB
Reviewed in the United States on October 4, 2018
I’m new to oil pastels, so I can’t say how these compare to others. But I’m pretty happy with them. They’re very soft and smooth. Only downside is when laying down a lot of color, there is a bit of flaking. These were a great set to get started with.
F.M.
Reviewed in the United Kingdom on July 19, 2015
Very highly priced. Good quality, but not good value for the money.
Jackie Eberhardt
Reviewed in the United States on January 10, 2015
Beautiful colors and love using them on my wood dolls. Love e the price and will purchase again in the near future
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