Conté à Paris Pastel Pencils with 12 Assorted Colors, Black

This is by far the best pastel pencils for blending evenly on any surface. Great for fine-tuning pastel stick art works.

Conté crayons are my favorite, especially the various sanguine variations. These, however, are true pastels, so if you know pastels, then you will know what you are getting. If you do not know how pastels act, then you may be puzzled at first by the granulation and the sharpening. Be patient. Conté is the best.

The product is of excellent quality but a few pencils were broken due to Amazon not adding any packing materials to the shipping box. The 48 Conte A' Paris Pastel Pencils bounced around freely in the larger shipping box during transit. It was sad to open and find tips broken off beautiful brand new pastel pencils. Hopefully Amazon Shipping will be advised of this less than adequate packing of a fragile item and change the way they pack pastels and pastel pencils in the future.

These are beautiful, quality products. Thick, luscious core deposits bright pigment. Simply beautiful. My only complaint is around the confusing color naming. I bought the set of 48 but really got only 47 (one color was repeated). Not a real biggie per se maybe since I can buy the individual pencils too. The trick comes in trying to determine what was missing. #39 Red Garnet was repeated, and after an HOUR searching online I determined that missing was probably #19 Purple. They do say “assorted colors” so maybe not every set is identical. Pencils are identified only by number on the pencil, though the painted wood seems to reflect the inner pigment accurately. Some numbers are clearly permanently retired (no sign anywhere of #23, 25, 35, 36, 45) but this is probably normal as we have 48 colors in theory but some are labeled #49, 50, 51, 53, 54, 55). So that explains the absence of some numbers and the appearance of others. The names DO exist online but they can be vague, and some I completely disagree with. But they’re just names after all. I do recommend these pencils. A quality product from a reputable brand. I’m not a big hard pastel guy but wanted to buy the best I could afford.

Best charcoal pencils...most are too soft and feel like crayons

Professional art materials! Well made and packaged. Pure pigments make for fantastic artwork!

Super soft pastel pencils. They tend to fill the tooth of the paper a bit quicker but they are super vibrant. I did the eyes of this cat using them. They are rather chunky so keep that in mind when sharpening.

I love these pencils so much that this is my second set. However I will not mail order them from Amazon again. When I opened these they were all mixed up in the box with multiple broken tips of At least 10 Which is more than 20% damage and unacceptable wastage. It could have been prevented with better attention to securing them tighter in the larger shipping box. I decided to just use them and not begin a return, but I've since had issues sharpening them with breakage inside the pencils due to rough handling during shipping. Frustrating...I also purchased the set of conte sticks at the same time and they came in the same shipment. several of those were broken and the set mixed up in the original packaging as well. But I usually use them in smaller pieces anyway. Although it's preferable to be the one deciding on where I break them! Do not let this review of Amazon's shipping deter you from this product. Because they are a favorite of mine. Do try them! They are smooth and make lovely marks.

Son lápices de tiza seca Comté, sinónimo de buena calidad. Afilado difícil, si precisas puntas muy finas para detalles muy finos.

Lápices pastel maravillosos! Muy útiles para detalles pequeños en pinturas al pastel o hacer llamativos bocetos. Me gustan mucho por los colores que trae el set además de que los lápices a simple vista son muy bonitos y tienen una mina gruesa un poco más gruesa a todos los lápices pastel de otras marcas y esto los hace un poco más duraderos

Great pastel pencils. Love them. However, the ones I received are not the ones shown in the product picture of the web page. What I received are: 029 Light Blue 041 Cyclamen 040 Red Lead 049 Light Orange 048 Flesh 047 Naples Yellow

線画にソフトパステルで彩色したくて買い求めました。フランス的な色展開が美しく、バランスもいいように思います。 製品の繊細な特性上、梱包形態が心配でしたが、商品の外はシュリンクパックで封がされ、上下とその回りを緩衝材の紙でつつまれ、段ボールで届きました。芯の割れや欠けなどもなく、とても美しい状態です。配送や梱包が不安だと言う声もあるようですが、少なくとも私のところに届いた商品は、ワレモノシールなどなくても、これ以上は望む必要がないほど問題のない状態でした。ちなみにヤマト運輸での配送です。アマゾンの倉庫は横浜・鶴見のようです。

Conforme à la description, attention toutefois à bien fixer sinon la lumière fera son office, les couleurs deviendront ternes.