Crayola Oil Pastels Portfolio Series: 12 Vibrant Colors, Water Soluble, Perfect for Creating Artworks

♀: 色や付きが薄いです。クレヨンみたいです。が、柔らかいのですぐ減ります。
油絵みたいにもなりません。

Japan on Oct 16, 2022

スタジオマン: パステルとしては値段相応ですが、パッケージに難ありでした。
収納部分を引き出す構造になっていますが内部で軽く接着されていて、
スムーズに引き出すことができずパッッケージが破けてしまいました。
この個体の問題かもしれませんが、第一印象が悪くなってしましました。

Japan on Sep 01, 2022

Lyne G.: J’adore ces pastels, ce sont mes préférés! Le fait de pouvoir les diluer avec de l’eau est génial!

Canada on Jul 24, 2021

LDan: I rate these four stars, but as a "student" grade product. Otherwise I would give them a much lower rating due to the fact that several of the colors are not very lightfast.

I did a lightfastness test (strong sunlight in a west window) and then rated them on a scale from 1 to 10 (10 being most lightfast), and here are my results:

10: True Blue (the lighter blue), Blue Green, Yellow Green, Golden Brown (the ocher color), Rust (the sienna color), Medium Brown, Grey, and Black
9: Cerulean, Blue, Blue Violet (the dark purple color), Green, and Slate Grey (the very blue grey color)
8: Yellow, and Moss (the khaki green color)
6: Violet (the lighter purple color)
5: Red Orange
4: Yellow Orange
3: Orange
2: Red Violet (the lightest purple color), and Peach (the light "flesh" color)
1: Pink

Those rated 10 showed no degradation, even in the wash application.
Those rated 9 showed a very slight lightening of the wash application only.
Those rated 8 showed a little more lightening of the wash, and little if any lightening of the dry (and so stronger) application.
The Violet, rated 6, had a little loss of intensity/brilliance in both...

United States on Jul 03, 2017

marciamarciamarcia: As other reviewers have pointed out, these water soluble oil pastels give great value for the money. Over the years I've bought (and sometimes given away) nearly every brand of paint, marker, pen, pastel (oil and clay-based) on the market, sometimes paying a fairly high price. For years my favorite brand of oil pastel has been Sennelier (not cheap).

I first heard of Portfolio after seeing them in artwork on someone's (don't remember who) blog. I enjoy media that doesn't require a lot of fuss and mess, so I'm a big fan of watercolor pencils and crayons, brush pens and markers, but sometimes I want something with more texture. After reading more about these, I decided to try them: they're by Crayola, after all--who doesn't like Crayola products? I've used them on different weight and textured papers and on cardboard. They glide on smoothly, disperse easily with water and you can smudge them with your fingers before or after applying water. (I use a Niji waterbrush with them.)

They're very soft (which is why they glide so easily across your paper), so if you use too much pressure, they leave behind some crumbs. You can just brush these off with a paper towel or blend...

United States on Feb 26, 2015

Connie Rose: Very good price for UK and arrived sooner than estimated. I really like the compact folding box which protects the pastels well. I bought these after watching an oil pastel demo where they were recommended for a top layer. Fat chunky sticks very soft and glide on smoothly, nice for finishing over the top of harder pastels. I've only used them once so far, they may get used up more quickly than others being so soft - if this happens I hope I can replace them a similar price. (One doesn't normally expect free postage halfway round the world!) The colours are a little less dense than others I have, but blend well and unlike my other oil pastels they are water soluble giving the option of a slightly different finish. The saying with regard to shoe polish is "Water hardens wax", so if this applies to the kind of wax in pastels then using Portfolios as a top layer and blending over with water may help to harden the layer underneath. I don't know this for a fact yet, but could be useful? I have not used them on their own yet, I imagine they may be good where you want a less strong, slightly translucent effect. I may update this review when I have experimented more with them, especially...

United Kingdom on Feb 03, 2015

mosaic: I really, really wanted these oil pastels for quite a while, but they are very difficult to get hold of in the UK at a reasonable price. In the end I bough them from Supermart USA and they came very quickly delivered by a UK courier. Thank you guys! I really love the product and it didn't disappoint despite my high expectations. I most often just use them to create backgrounds and colour page elements in my art journals. They colours blend beautifully without using any water, just by smudging them with my fingers. This technique works best on top of gessoed surfaces or gel medium (obviously when completely dry). The only challenge is to find compatible media so that you can work on top of it when layering. Writing on top of these oil pastels with a pen is particularly challenging. One solution I've found is to seal it with a fixative, which provides a smooth surface, but will not work if the oil pastel layer is too thick. The other thing you can try is seal it with clear gesso, which works far better than the fixative solution, but it may be difficult to move the pen smoothly if the gesso is too gritty.

United Kingdom on Jun 12, 2014