PanPastelArtist Pastels by GOLDEN, Landscape Set, 20 Color, Professional Artist Pastels, Unique Pan Format (cake-like)

I'm not an artist per se, but I was introduced to these Panpastels at a rubber stamp event. I am impressed with how much color and coverage I can achieve without using very much of the pastel. I like how they blend, that they can be erased, and they're easily cleaned up after use. When used with colored pencils, I get beautiful images.

I love these pastels! Never used PanPastels before but now I doubt I'll ever use anything else....so smooth, so even, so easy to use. Try them....I'd guess you'll love them too!

i have wanted these for years and i finally got this landscape set. im not disappointed but i wish they weren't so expensive. i want the whole set but $300 is way out of my art budget right now. luckily there are these smaller sets of twenty and even singe colors so i can gradually get all of em but this doesn't help with my desire for instant gratification at all. lol. love em. color lays down easy. i didn't have the problem with receiving damaged colors or stuck containers that i saw in some of the other reviews. barely any dust at all from these. i usr them for backgrounds and underpaintings and a little goes a long way

Very useful for me working with Encaustic Painting. It allows me to apply more subtle colors than I might be able to do with wax alone. The pans the colors come in are a nice size.The only complaint I might have is the pans are not labeled other than on the bottoms, and the fact that they are made to store screwed top to bottom means that you can't see the label with the name of the color, and the containers don't allow you to actually see the colors. I used a labeler to label each bin and that works fine.

The danger used to be - breathing in the dust, and you shouldn't touch them...they were toxic. Not so with this wonderful no morph to the old-fashioned pastel sticks. I absolutely love their buttery softness, how they blend, how much control I have over the finished pastel piece. I am now coloring in adult grayscale coloring books, and find these pastels to be an outstanding addition to my pencil coloring. They are great for backgrounds, skies and details. Absolutely love them! And plan on getting more.

These pan pastel trays are so loaded with pigment that you don't have to use much of it. They last a LONG time. You apply it with a tool that looks like a cross between an eye shadow sponge applicator and a palette knife. It makes for a very loose misty look. It is perfect for backgrounds or adding fog/mist to mountain or lake scenes. It is good for a painterly look with loose, flowing strokes. You can add many layers without a lot of dust or problems with adherence.It is NOT good if you are trying to get details. However, you can use them WITH acrylics, watercolor, or soft pastels or pastel pencils for a wider variety of looks.

Absolutely love these pastels. Has helped a great deal with landscape drawings. Highly recommend.

PanPastels are wonderful. I really love the realistic skies it is possible to achieve with them. Because you put them on with an applicator brush getting a sharp edge takes some work/technique and I often found myself using a pastel pencil when sharp lines were needed. I wish there were more tutorials about how to use them (more than a video or two on YouTube), or even some books that covered techniques specific to PanPastels.