Mont MarteOil Pastels in Tin Box Signature 48pc, 48 Assorted Colors, Vibrant Oil Pastel Set, Great Blending and Layering, Comes in Storage Case, Ideal for Art, Craft, Coloring and Sketching

Fun to use. Blends well good color variety great for art students

Lots of colors. Good value. The quality is good- soft, but not too soft. Really cheap for the size. I will probably buy again.

Very vibrant smooth and colorful, the colors blend beautifully.

I am very happy with this pastel. Everything about it I like. The colors are bright and intense the box that it comes it’s beautiful. I am planing to paint some portraits paintings with it. I already painted some 🌺. I will buy it again

Bought these because I wanted to broaden my artistic skills. Lots of beautiful colors. I highly recommend.

They add a pop to my oil pastel paintings and glow under black light. Some colors apply more transparently but they can be layered with other oil pastels. The purple is more saturated than regular oil pastels and opaque.

I purchased the Artecho set of Neon pastels as well, simply because of the ratings and super low $5.99 price, but after going back and forth among all the brands which made Fluorescent pastels, these Montmarte were my first choice. When both sets arrived I opened each and swatched them on 70 lb sketch paper.- interestingly, while the outer packaging/boxes were different (MontMarte had thinner, end flap opening, while the Artecho had thicker quality bottom and top lid construction), their trays (texture and cutouts) as well as the clear plastic tray lids (cutouts and texture, ridges, etc) were exactly the same! I feel they’re made by the same company!- The colors in the sets were exactly the same.- The texture was nearly the same….micro-differences, where the MontMarte set felt slightly creamier…I think?- In both sets the neon yellow was the highest density and quality.- All the others had a general translucency which I expected anyway, they’re Fluorescent, after all. (You’re not going to get lightfastness or high quality, etc.). Even if you try to build up layers; I wanted these for mixed media, so that’s ok for me.- There appears to be very slightly more pigment load (ahem, if you could call it that in these types of pastels) in the Montmarte but for me not enough to pay more should I buy again.-ever so slight better blendability between two colors with the MontMarte, but that is dependent on how similar in value the two are. Two rectangles of light and dark value placed end to end on paper in both brands leaves telltale marks of where each value originally was laid down when I tried to blend the middle between them. Not so much when the rectangles were two lights or two darks, and slightly better with MontMarte…slightly.- For slightly more than half price I’d go with Artecho. Once I work more with both and do ‘real world work’ with them I’ll change or update this IF it needs to be.

These do fluoresce but be aware the actual quality of the sticks are pretty low. Good novelty sort of thing, they are the same size and thickness as most oil pastels. I’m going to see what happens when I layer these bad boys with senneliers just because I can.