Review on 🎨 KINGART Soft Pastels - Set of 24 Vibrant Colors, 24-Piece by Nicole Mcleod

Kingart 126 Soft Colored Pastels is a good set to start with pastels or add the colors you want. As an art teacher I have used many different pastels and I find this set to be very good with a good soft quality giving good color intensity. I considered pastel to be one of my main areas of interest. This is a limited set of colors and should be added to another larger set for best performance. Pastel is actually clay with powdered or ground pigment mixed in. Clay particles are microscopic, so the quality of the ground pigments is important for mixing and color intensity. Kingart seems to be very good in this regard. There is one oddity that I have never seen with Kingart before. There is a slightly glossy finish on one side of the pastel pencils. I've never seen this before. Pastel cannot be used on this page. Color should not be applied to the textured paper from the other side of the stick without pressing firmly and removing the coating. The other three sides are free of this cover. Pastels work well on medium textured paper (cheaper) with both soft and harder pressure. Mixing is good. I haven't tested them on very expensive paper, although I think they will work fine.