PanPastel 28005 Ultra Soft Artist Pastel, Black 280.5

I love this color. It so cheerful. I can see me using it a ton.

I have been using soft pastels for 30 years and these are by far one of the best. The colors are vibrant, mix well and go on smoothly. They work on most surfaces including vinyl and composition as long as you pre-set with Mr. Clear. I would highly recommend these pastels!

This was my first experience with Pan Pastels, but Im a professional artist. I used this on Strathmore bristol, and Im very happy. Ive applied with the Sofft tools made by the company that makes Pan Pastels, and Ive also used brushes. This product goes on smoothly and is very forgiving. I absolutely will continue using Pan Pastels!

Pan pastels are really beautiful to use. I am new to them. This was the first of a group of pan pastels that came broken up into small pieces. I am hoping it is still workable in that condition. Dont know if it broke up in the shipping process or was send out that way.

The PanPastel chalk is amazing. The box it was shipped in was big and they had enough bubble wrap in there to protect it in shipping. Mine did not break apart like some people said theirs did. It covers very nicely on either light or dark papers. To get the best coverage use a card stock with a rough surface so the chalk has something to adhere to. I use Bazzill card stock for the best results. You can use a smooth surface paper, but the intensity of the color will not be as great. I also us a make up cotton round that is soft to apply the chalk to my project. It works great and they are cheaper to buy than the art sponges. You can use the chalk wet or dry. I prefer dry, that way if you make a mistake you can erase it. If you use it wet and make a mistake, you can still erase it but you will have a residual chalk line left. There are so many options to do with this chalk, it will never get unused!

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I love Panpastels. I’m new to using them. My gripe is not about the brand itself but the fact that in the photo, it looks like a skin tone but in reality, it’s more like a very light gray! I can still use it on animals, backgrounds, & eye whites but using it how I had planned to, will not work.

This is essential for anyone who has Pan Pastels (or any pastels, really)- its basically like a clear Pan Pastel and allows you to extend and pull an application of Pan Pastel without making the color lighter or darker. For instance, if you lay down a line of blue Pan Pastel on your paper, you can then drag some of this right on top and it will allow you to cover twice as much area without dimming the color. I use it a lot to create transparent colors with Pan Pastels and other dry pastel sticks I have in my art supply collection. It also works as a way to get am ombre/faded look, and is a wonderful way to blend colors adjacent to one another without actually *mixing* the colors, so you dont get any muddy grays/browns from mixing colors that are complementary.

I love that with a brush you have full control building up the pigment whilst it still being pretty opaque. With the soft sponge tools it goes on super opaque. They glide on many surfaces smoothly without losing any punch to the pigment. These are super grand to use weather youre looking to use them on resin or paper. I love them and highly recommend! PS: I know people had issues with them crumbling during shipping but mine came in without a problem. Well packaged and ready to use. It came in its own single container but I just added them to my stack of pastels.

I bought this product for a few reasons. The main one was transferring a sketch to a black piece of paper which tracing paper cant be used. I saw a YouTuber suggest this as a possibility so I took her word for it. It works well, just go lightly with it because it tends to get messy and make the black paper blotchy with it.