Conté à Paris Pastel Pencils with 12 Assorted Colors, Black

Professional art materials! Well made and packaged. Pure pigments make for fantastic artwork!

The product is of excellent quality but a few pencils were broken due to Amazon not adding any packing materials to the shipping box. The 48 Conte A' Paris Pastel Pencils bounced around freely in the larger shipping box during transit. It was sad to open and find tips broken off beautiful brand new pastel pencils. Hopefully Amazon Shipping will be advised of this less than adequate packing of a fragile item and change the way they pack pastels and pastel pencils in the future.

These are beautiful, quality products. Thick, luscious core deposits bright pigment. Simply beautiful. My only complaint is around the confusing color naming. I bought the set of 48 but really got only 47 (one color was repeated). Not a real biggie per se maybe since I can buy the individual pencils too. The trick comes in trying to determine what was missing. #39 Red Garnet was repeated, and after an HOUR searching online I determined that missing was probably #19 Purple. They do say “assorted colors” so maybe not every set is identical. Pencils are identified only by number on the pencil, though the painted wood seems to reflect the inner pigment accurately. Some numbers are clearly permanently retired (no sign anywhere of #23, 25, 35, 36, 45) but this is probably normal as we have 48 colors in theory but some are labeled #49, 50, 51, 53, 54, 55). So that explains the absence of some numbers and the appearance of others. The names DO exist online but they can be vague, and some I completely disagree with. But they’re just names after all. I do recommend these pencils. A quality product from a reputable brand. I’m not a big hard pastel guy but wanted to buy the best I could afford.

Best charcoal pencils...most are too soft and feel like crayons

Conté crayons are my favorite, especially the various sanguine variations. These, however, are true pastels, so if you know pastels, then you will know what you are getting. If you do not know how pastels act, then you may be puzzled at first by the granulation and the sharpening. Be patient. Conté is the best.

I am an artist. I absolutely love these pastels . I have professional grade soft pastels. But, I bought these because of the harder core and hoped the conte could be used for shading with my other other softer pastels. I also bought the conte pencil sharpener . Works well. The only complaint I have is with the Amazon packing. These pastels should be bubble wrapped. Once the core is broken the pencil is useless. Conte pencils work well with mixed medium.

I love these pencils so much that this is my second set. However I will not mail order them from Amazon again. When I opened these they were all mixed up in the box with multiple broken tips of At least 10 Which is more than 20% damage and unacceptable wastage. It could have been prevented with better attention to securing them tighter in the larger shipping box. I decided to just use them and not begin a return, but I've since had issues sharpening them with breakage inside the pencils due to rough handling during shipping. Frustrating...I also purchased the set of conte sticks at the same time and they came in the same shipment. several of those were broken and the set mixed up in the original packaging as well. But I usually use them in smaller pieces anyway. Although it's preferable to be the one deciding on where I break them! Do not let this review of Amazon's shipping deter you from this product. Because they are a favorite of mine. Do try them! They are smooth and make lovely marks.

Wow -- these are the super pastel pencils that you always wished for. Pricey, but worth it. They are a bit fatter than other pastel pencils, so you need a larger pencil sharpener -- or just use a knife. They put down the color very well, are smooth, and really nice to handle.

Son lápices de tiza seca Comté, sinónimo de buena calidad. Afilado difícil, si precisas puntas muy finas para detalles muy finos.

Lápices pastel maravillosos! Muy útiles para detalles pequeños en pinturas al pastel o hacer llamativos bocetos. Me gustan mucho por los colores que trae el set además de que los lápices a simple vista son muy bonitos y tienen una mina gruesa un poco más gruesa a todos los lápices pastel de otras marcas y esto los hace un poco más duraderos

Simplesmente maravilhosos!

Product is great and no pastel breakages within the pencil

Livraison rapide. Produit conforme au descriptif. Les crayons sont larges et avec une bonne pigmentation. Crayons pastels de très bonne qualité.