Equally suited to intense coloring, delicate shading, or subtle hue transition. Professional quality oil pastels with smoothness and blendability. Permanent pigments. Absolutely dustless. Sets, packaged in metal boxes.

Smooth and easy-to-use, Daler-Rowney Oil Pastels offer artists a serious painting medium that can be used alone or together with other media such as acrylic paints, gouache, acrylic inks, pencil, or charcoal.

Endorsed by the Oil Pastel Association of America (OPA), Holbein Artists' Oil Pastels come in a superb range of 225 colors that feel and move like a chalk pastel. They can be applied to almost any ground, and used over acrylic and oil color.

Cray-Pas Expressionist Oil Pastels are formulated with extra-fine quality pigments, waxes, and oils. They are perfect for very smooth drawing and a wide range of effects, from bold, intense strokes to subtle shading.

Exceptional color intensity, smooth and soft textured, highly lightfast pastels. For fine detail (using their square corners), or for glazing and wash techniques with various oil painting mediums. Unwrapped.

Sennelier Oil Pastels (Pastels à l'Huile), manufactured in Paris, are made with carefully selected mineral and organic pigments, mixed with a specially formulated non-drying binder, and combined with the finest quality wax.

Creamy smooth Sennelier oil pastels are rich in pigment, cover beautifully, and have outstanding opacity. They may be thinned with turpentine and worked with a brush. At 3/4" diameter x 5" long the pastel grand is equivalent to eight regular size sticks.

These oil pastels are perfect for older or more advanced students. They are intense in color and particularly soft and pleasant to use, not just on paper and board but also on wood or earthenware.