Rembrandt Soft Pastel Micro Set, 5-Piece Half Sticks, Deep Blues

All of the Rembrandt micro sets are great for 5-value underpaintings, for adding grasses, flower stems, branches, etc. into pastel paintings. For me they aren't stand alone in that I add soft pastel over them to work with them, but all of the micro sets are affordable, lightfast, sets perfect for underpaintings in the beginning or texture (grasses, fur, etc.) at the end of the painting.

The bluest blues anywhere.

Covered beautifully

Good colors but a couple of the darkest sticks were so hard I could not color with them. I suspect they were old pastel sticks. So they are useless.

There are NOT soft pastels. One of the colors is so dang hard you can not put any down while on its side!!!!! Even looking at them they look like plastic chalk!!

Purchased to make colored acrylic powder for nails. Very pigmented and goes a long way especially for the small size. The listing makes it seem like each piece is actually larger than it truly is.

I liked Blue! Two of these five pastels were in common with the Rembrandt set of 90, but the addition of the deep dark blue, and the two pale blues, still about half the cost of buying them individually made this a great choice. Rembrandts are medium soft. The pastels feel solid to your hand (unlike Sennelier for example which feels dusty in your hand) but the marks they make are very soft and blendable. I understand why it is considered the essential workhorse of the craft.

Good focused set. Soft and good layering potential.

just perfect

Beautiful

Wouldn't buy again - the photo makes them look a lot bigger than they are - in fact they are half sticks (which it does say on box and I didn't notice) but they are over a pound each and feel quite hard and scratchy - the cheaper ones I have feel better quality!