Reeves Soft Pastels-Set of 36, Assorted

I almost spent $16 on the Michael's website for this exact same set! Good product for what you pay for!

great for school projects

Should be labeled chalk

Great product

You get what you pay for. These pastels are very crumbly and create more dust than they should.

Yup

This is a very nice set of pastels for students or professionals. I ordered them to use with my seven-year-old granddaughter, who’s showing an artistic flair and is already enjoying colored pencils. She absolutely loves working with these. And while I’m no expert, I do have some previous experience working with pastels, and these are very nice. They contain plenty of colors and if you use the ends or edges, you get bolder results than if you use the sides. It was fun teaching my granddaughter how to use them – how to shade and blend.We used textured paper from Michael's – the pastels stick to it far better than to writing paper. The colors include salmon, red, crimson, magenta, pink, pale pink, violet, dark, medium, and light purple, blue-violet, four shades of blue, turquoise, aqua, light green, green, light brown, brown, burnt sienna, raw umber, light gray, gray, charcoal, black, white, dark yellow, yellow, lemon, yellow ochre, mustard, orange and dark orange – everything you can possibly need at a reasonable price.

I am taking a class with an Argentinean lady that involves working with parchment paper, tracing an image, and embossing with small ball tools and other instruments provided by the teacher. In English, the art form is called “Pergamano.”She suggested getting soft pastels to color the underside so that it will show through the parchment. She explained that this is a dry medium that won’t warp the paper, doesn’t require pressure (like colored pencils do) and you can easily control the color intensity and blend colors to fit your design.This set seemed to provide an excellent variety of colors—I can’t imagine needing more than 36. It has an excellent variety in all the colors that I use. I had never used this medium before but the teacher felt that the quality was adequate for my needs and of average quality.Maybe the square shape is the ideal way to go when you’re using these pastels for paintings. For my purposes, I think that having them be round (like chalk sticks) would have been more comfortable.I love the effect of the tint coming through the parchment and the use wasn’t difficult to master. However, I was not counting on having the process produce so much dust. I noticed that other students had sets that did not create as much dust as this set does. As far as blending, they blend together and smooth out as well as the other sets do.I am asthmatic and dust of any kind is not a good thing for me, so I think that I’ll use them sparingly. Luckily, they are unscented and clean up just requires soap and water, not harsh chemicals.

The colour was the intesity I was looking for without the greasiness of oil pastels. They blended nicely and it was a great chance for the kids to practice leaving negative space. The price was fine for student sets

I found pastels to be pretty messy not sure if I will do much of this....

Bonne qualité, ma fille les aimes

Bought these to compliment the other pastels I have. Colours looked great. Reeves were a good name. Very inexpensive, but found there is a reason for that. To say they are awful would be doing this product a favour. They're not pastels; they are cheap, gritty chalk. With pastels, you expect some dust. What you DON'T expect is crumbling that produces a sort of sand. Unless you're chalking on pavements, avoid like the plague. Seriously awful.

Love these