Artist Pastels by GOLDEN, Grays Set, 5 Color, Professional Artist Pastels, Unique Pan Format (cake-like)

I'm brand new to pan pastels and love them so far. I'm a watercolorist and I have used these to cover up some things I couldn't fix in watercolors. There is a wide range of colors so you can make many colors from this set. I ordered the colorless blender from PanPastel and that works great too. Would be awesome to include with this set. The price seemed just right. The set included some Sofft tools which was nice to try out. Extra lids would be great as I might want to separate them some time but no biggie. Overall, a nice set to get started with.

I am a polymer clay artist. I've heard people rave about these pastels and I've seen what people have done with them regarding polymer clay. However, they are quite expensive so I hesitated for a long time. I just finally got fed up with having to shave low quality stick pastels into a power and inferior pigments and the mess and possible color shift after baking. Long story short- I bought this set as a test, it looks like it had some nice earthy browns and greens and figured it would be a safe color palette. Oh boy am I in trouble. These apply like butter. They are like nothing I've ever used and can be applied with your finger, or the included applicators. So far- I've not noticed any color shifting after baking. The pigment is saturated and it seems to be a very high quality product. While the price is quite high, I feel this is one of those products, depending on how you use it, less it more and they should last a very long time. Keeping in mind my use is on polymer clay- very different from actually drawing or painting with them. I can't wait to add to my collection. Excellent product! I highly recommend this product. It's surprisingly high quality. Definite must have for all artists.

I LOVE this product. The pastels are very easy to work with. I did not like the stacks so I bought a palette tray, which is perfect. However, I got the wrong colors in this order. As you can see from my pics, I ordered the earth colors with green and yellow and did not get that. I like and will use the colors I got but I really wanted the green and yellow that were supposed to come in the pack. I'm not going to return it, though (why would I send back the awesome colors I did get?). I'm trying to decide if I want to just order the individual colors or order the pack again (2 colors would be duplicated). All that said, working with these is very easy and they are fantastic for patina and antiquing.

Highly recommend. Arrived safely without damage for those who aren’t familiar with how these come, they are stacked together and there is just one lid covering the top color. I would recommend that you get the tray that holds 10 or 20 depending on your needs so that you don’t need individual lids. The way it is made to store makes it easy to travel with and takes up less space but if you get one of the storage trays, it is like having a pallet of them and you can leave them separate but covered. Also comes with several tools inside , and with practice, you can blend and combine to make many other colors with this set

Amazing, rich and deep colors, as Pan Pastels are known to be. They are lovely and worth the investment. I was, however, rather disappointed in finding 2 of the colors banged up and turned somewhat to loose powder considering the cost of Pan Pastels. Of the 6, 4 were perfect but 2 had been banged around and were damaged on the top. The seller may want to look at better protecting the product for shipping.

My order arrived from Blick as the seller, and it was well packaged and undamaged. I didn't realize that it would be coming from this seller, actually, but was grateful to make that discovery. Blick never disappoints. All pans were intact and perfect. The material itself is great. I agree with others that the stacked way of packaging a set is not ideal, because it's really inefficient to have to unscrew each of them to see if it's the color you want to use. There's no way to tell when they're all screwed together. It's very easy to cross-thread the pans, too. I'll be ordering separate lids so I can have more flexibility for storage and ease of use, but the lids seem to only come in sets of 8, and the "drawing" set I ordered came with 10 colors. I agree with other reviewers that it's very strange for the set to include "sofft" applicator tips for a tool base (the blue wand) that is not included. Unless you're simply using those as tiny sponges (with your fingers), then you'll need the wand as a separate purchase. Still a beautiful medium to use for drawing/painting, but the "kit" idea needs refining.

Delicious to paint with. It was a pleasure to play around with these medium

packaged nicely and arrived in perfect condition