Sennelier Extra-Soft Pastel Full Stick Set, 6 Count (Pack of 1), Black/Green/Ivory/Red/White/Yellow

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!

I was looking for some pastels to add some pop, some iridescence to my drawings and these work very well. They are soft and even when smoothed out, keep their iridescence, which means that the quality stays true throughout the stick itself. Love them. Easy to use.

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.

If you use the side of the pastel stick you have to take the label off. With the label comes some of the expensive pastel that you paid good money for. They also are very easy to break while drought are taking off the label. They should be sold with or without labels.

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.

I can't believe people like these. They fall to pieces as soon as they touch the paper. They may as well have come as a powder.

Excellent product and quick delivery!

I'm not one for a lot of glitz and glitter but the Sennelier Iridescent Pastels are perfect for adding touches of interest to a piece of artwork. They are very versitile and mix in with other pastels very easily. They can even be blended with pastel pencils. A little goes along way. I was using another brand of iredescent pastels but these are much better. Great price for a quality product that will last for a long time.