SchminckePastels, 15 colors"Portrait", 77 415 097, boxed set with 15 pastels, handmade pastels, brilliant, velvety matt, highly lightfast colors

The quality of the pastels are excellent. Only a few frustration points that I tend to have with most basic starter sets. Plus a few with this set specifically. First I don’t understand how a basic starter set will omit violet/purple. Generally starter sets will have all primary colors but only orange and green secondary colors. This starter set is heavy on the warmer yellow and orange side. It doesn’t have what I consider a primary red. Mixing this red (similar to cadmium red deep) with the blue gives a muted violet. 5 of the 10 pastels are yellows and oranges. Red-orange, orange, yellow-orange, yellow, yellow ochre. 6 if you add the warmer brown pastel. The other colors are white, black (not as rich a dark as I’d want for starter set), light green (towards yellow and a bit “pastel” white added), white and a good rich primary blue. Two colors would make this set much better as a starter. First is violet. How can a basic set not included all primary and secondary colors? Along the same lines, I wish the set had a true primary red rather than a red-orange. A richer solid secondary green would improve color choices as well. Would be easy to substitute yellow-orange and red-orange to add the violet and true primary red. Giving this 5 stars because the quality of the pastels. In addition to the fact that the colors where as described, though I disagree with their decision of color choices for a starter set. Based on the quality of the pastels I will probably get one of the larger sets they have available.

Love the rose color for lips and blush.I use a make up brush for the blushing. I blush cheeks, knees, ears and elbows. After I remove the factory paint I add a little water for the lips. I’m not an artist but brought my dolls to life. I added glass eyes. You can also use these soft pastels for filling in the eyebrows. So fun! I couldn’t figure out how to post a before pic.

These pastels are soft & very easy to work with. They leave a very nice finished product beautiful & giftable.

There are NOT 15 pastels in this box. There are 10 pastels. I have seen many people complain about this in reviews as I have, yet still no correction. What is so wrong that this cannot be advertised with the correct number. These pastels are arguably the top of the line yet the heading is totally misleading.

I ordered the portrait pastel pack and recieved the regular standard colour palette. I specifically wanted just skin tones as advertised in the portrait edition, not vibrant greens, blues and reds that pop. These are expensive so I made the purchase with careful debate as to which set I wanted to get. Otherwise, quality seems good, just the wrong colours.

This portrait set has a beautiful array of colors, excellent Schminke quality. I would have given 5 stars but the set includes one pastel stick that is rated 1 star fugitive color. The others are rated 4 star (2 sticks) or 5 star lightfast (12 sticks). I will keep for the 4,5 star beautiful ones.

Extra-soft for sure. Smooth and thick, but limited in achieving detail. They may work better on smooth paper. The lighter colors are extremely crumbly. The white nearly disintegrated into small bits. I'll try to use them for underpainting. They do cover broad areas easily.

Great buy if there were actually 15 colors of Pastels in the box as stated.The photo was of box of 10 but the title stated 15 and listed 15 colors.

Suaves, colores preciosos. El polvo puedes difuminarlo muy bien. Me encantan, aunque el precio es mayor, lo valen.Marcas q he probado en orden de suavidad y mi gusto: Jack Richeson, Artecho,Mount Vision, Sennelier, Rembrandt. Y los Prismacolor Nupastel- se anuncian no como soft pero son muy versátiles y suaves. Espero probar Ludwig

Me encantan los pigmentos que tienen.

Li uso per miscelarli con altri tipi di pastelli sono molto morbidi

Came quickly and are the buttery, beautiful pastels I hoped they would be! It's like holding silky chocolate. Thank you!

Ich bin Anfängerin. Es macht Spaß damit zu malen