I've used their other version, and these new ones look even better! The shape definitely looks more like Sennelier. Love your drawings (paintings?). The summer beach houses are so vibrant and happy, and the lion looks really awesome! ❤ Oil pastels will eventually dry, but it does take a few weeks.
Thanks, Becky! Yes, my sketchbook page is already much easier to handle, thank goodness. I still have to finish the lion since I didn't work on it today, but maybe I can squeeze a little time in on it tomorrow afternoon. 😅
Love, love your lion. Will admit as someone who had to be treated for heavy metals, I'm more comfortable seeing people blends paints with a stomp or wearing gloves. I have some inexpensive nonlaytex gloves that fit securely so work well. I have seen an artist drag a stomp on the bottom of an oil pastel and use that for fine details. Thank you for taking us along your art journey.
Oooh, good point about the heavy metals. If like to use these again and soon, so maybe I'll order up some gloves that fit me nicely. Thanks, Eileen! Hugs.
Very nice work in this video. Oil pastels really are a lot of fun, aren't they? I have this same set of Paul Rubens Haiya oil pastels (I believe it is pronounced something like "high-ya") and the Paul Rubens Seascape set of 72. Got both of them from Amazon very recently. My experience was that the Haiyas popped up pretty frequently for me. Maybe you were searching longer ago when they were even newer and perhaps weren't very well-known? I haven't used them very much yet, so I don't have too much experience with them. But I also have Caran d'Ache Neopastels, Mungyo Gallery, and Sennelier oil pastels in my arsenal, and I've been using these for years. They all work well together, and I'm hoping the Paul Rubens will, too. It has been my experience that in general, oil pastels will never completely dry out. They will dry some, but never completely, and how much they dry and how quickly varies from brand to brand. They don't really behave the same way as oil paint in this regard, and I think the main reason for this is that the oils used in oil pastels are different than those used in oil paints. I think oil paints use a vegetable-based oil like linseed oil, where oil pastels typically use a mineral oil. Plus, oil pastels have some wax and other binders mixed in with the pigments. As for fixative, Sennelier makes a really good oil pastel fixative for $18 or $19. I have also used Spectrafix on oil pastels with good results. Anyway, I hope this info is helpful and thanks for the fine video!
@@yuniaaniza5120 Yes, I have both the Haiya 48 and 72 set of oil pastels. I really like them, too. In my opinion, the Hayas are softer than the Mungyo line and maybe just a tad bit harder than Senneliers. Overall, I think the Haiyas are very comparable to Senneliers, but I am honestly not sure how the Haiyas compare with Senneliers on lightfastness. I suspect that the Haiyas are reasonably lightfast, but I don't what method the Paul Rubens manafacturer used to determine their lightfast ratings. On the other hand, I'm completely confident in Sennelier's ratings.
@@atvalleau hi, I seriously appreciate your comment🙏🏻 I'm still new to this oil painting stuff and I bought the wrong set of pastels at first, then I bought the mungyo 12 too. The mungyo is good, I understand the hype towards it, but I'm curious with haiya since many told it's a sennelier dupe. I'm okay with the fact if haiyas are not light-fast because I'm still at my trying stage, and considering the price I think I'll go with haiya before trying out the senneliers. Hope you're having a good day☺️
I'm so relieved to see that they are still super creamy. I was thinking about picking up another set from them soon and saw that they were in new packaging and blend. I think I shall pick up a set when I can for sure now. c: Thank you for your honest review and feedback it's appreciated. The art pieces that you made are very lovely as well. The big cat is stunning with the colors you've chosen definitely made it come to life though it wasn't finished in video.. :) Best wishes. ❤
I think your title page of the coloring book came out great!!! That one is somewhere on the wishlist or deep in the Amazon cart.... LOL. I also got them all over my hands - I guess these would be a good time to use a pastel holder. Who needs oil paint?? Hey, how do you like the Paint Coach brushes?? What about gessoing the canvas?? I LOVE the Lion!! I guess, when using these, it's best to be loose and expressive. I love how they blend!
They look similar to the Sennelier Artist Oil Pastels which are very soft and creamy too. I like them a lot, more than the harder versions I already worked with at school. You can also try using silicone modeling tools to move the colours on your surface. With them you can blend the colours nicely, when working on details. This should work if they are like the Sennelier ones. By the way I often sea that oil and soft pastel artists alike say that they are painting and not drawing. 😉
I finally watched Lindsay's video today and I saw she was using a silicone tool. Brilliant! That would have worked so much better than the blending stump. Next time! These were fun!
Oooooo they look nice! Love the paintings! The only oil pastels I've tried are the Mungyo water-soluble oil pastels and i love them. Vibrant and very pigmented. I'm just a sucker for anything water-soluble.❤
Miranda! If I didn’t know you by your videos and had this on mute, I wouldn’t know you’d never used them by your results. That’s all your experience showing up in these paintings 🤗 Loved that you dove right in and went from the cute beach huts to the canvas. Besides all that my fav is when you commented on your sand waves “because I say so!” Perfecto! 👏 Just before finding your video I impulsively bought the 72 set…I wanna play set that doesn’t feel so sennelier $ precious. Now, I’m even more excited to get these onto a canvas panel. Oh and oil pastels can go atop acrylic & oil, but not under…sorta like the “Fat over Lean” Oil painting mantra. Can also go easily over watercolor underpainting & watercolor over OP as resist…just be sure to use your non-favorite, maybe oil pastel only watercolor brush as cleaning will be a bit more aggressive. Don’t want oils in our watercolor pans. Thanks Miranda for another great video 👋💜👋
Thank you. ❤️ All your comments were such a pleasure to read. I had so much fun with these pastels and it makes me excited to think of using them again. That's always a good thing! I hope you have so much fun using yours. 💓
I have their old ones and really enjoy them, but I've only used the kids' quality when I was in elementary school, so I'm used to more of a crayon type ordeal. These look even more soft than their other formulation. I've only done a few "paintings" and I started taping them down on boards that are about an inch bigger on all sides to I can pick it up and move it etc. without messing my picture up. I feel like they get used up quickly though because theyre quite soft and stinks because its not like you can buy these open stock, i think that's the only draw back with these type of company pastels. Your painting turned out beautifully! Anyway, thanks for sharing these with us. Have a great day
I love the idea of taping it to a board so you can move it more easily. Thank you, Danielle! These were dreamy to work with but you're right; I think they'll get used up quickly. Hopefully they'll have open stock available in the future.
Hahahaha I had so much fun watching this! They look messy, but the fun kind of messy! They're on my list to buy next year! Your paintings turned out really well. I loved those little houses, they have such a cute vibe. I can't wait to see you use these with oil paints! I'm so curious about how that will work!
They ARE the fun kind of messy. I smile just thinking about using them again. So glad you enjoyed watching this; it's always nice to hear that. I'm definitely going to have to mix them with my oil paints on a painting and see what happens. Should be fun!
2:20 agreed, some Chinese manufacturers go for the high quality market same as there is plenty of European stuff which is absolute tat even though the price tag pretends it isn’t . I just wish there was an international high quality trade assurance badge so we could tell the difference.
Man I didn't know how easy for oil pastels to melt! I was really tempted to get these because of the good reviews I've seen but I live in a very hot and humid country so I don't trust they will arrive to me safely 😂💔 And I love the colorful lion 😍
Hello, thank you so much for the detailed review. I really want this set but i saw there are some pigments used like cadmium yellow PY35 in quite a lot of the colours. And i woud not want that on my skin. How do you cope with that?
Hiii! I haven't been able to keep up with all the videos, but I'm so excited to see this one. I found these "randomly" on Amazon the other day and just received the 60 set this afternoon. sooooo creamy! People say they are Sennelier dupes. I tried them versus other oil pastels I had and they are so much better. You can use them with a palette knife. Funny thing, I just picked up three Shiva oil sticks because my local store is discontinuing them. But they smell soooo much (not the sticks themselves, but the papers I used them on....) I thought they'd be like a jumbo oil pastel, but, boy they really smell of linseed. Somehow I ended up ordering the RF sample sticks in the aftermath LOL. I am very glad you're being super picky now about who you say yes to!!! But Rubens, HECK YES. I saw they do have the large oil sticks -- just in white and black -- they are actually labeled oil paint. I wonder if they are the same formula as the small kind? I also saw they have an interesting large set of shimmery gansai paints. Also soft pastels, hand rolled! Which are also supposed to be Sennelier dupes. (I know you hate soft pastels, but I've been enjoying them lately. Not so much the mess...) I *also* loved the saying on the cover, about letting more people enjoy Chinese colors! And that they all show the pigment colors.
The R&F and the Shivas are oil sticks, not oil pastels -- just linseed oil and pigment (like oil paint), whereas the oil pastels are mineral oil, wax, and pigment. The oil sticks do dry, like oil paint, while the oil pastels never completely dry, just harden to a degree, though as others have mentioned, they can be sprayed with fixative and, I think, varnished.
@@margaretspringer9197 Hey, thanks for that! The ones I was referring to is that Reubens is making giant "Oil Paint" sticks that I have not tried yet, so I don't know whether they are like the oil pastels or more like R&F. Now they are out of stock but the seller told me they will return.
@@margaretspringer9197 Well, I checked and they are back in stock, so... hahah I have some on the way. They say OIL PAINT in big letters and have a tube to keep them in, but then the marketing compares it to 7 oil pastels.
@@margaretspringer9197 I got the Paul Reubens giant sticks and they are oil pastel -- I can smell linseed from a mile away. Still fun though. They came very nicely packed.
These look nice. They are not too expensive. I won't be getting them any time soon because I don't really know how to use pastels. But it was fun watching you create that beautiful lion. Does he have whiskers yet?
@@MirandaWatsonArt Thank you! I picked up the 48 and they are a dream to use. I used the matte Krylon fixative spray on my piece, and the smearing stopped immediately.
It seems like they never fully dry out, so I would recommend using some kind of fixative on it first. They say 6 months to a year on oil paintings, but I'm not as familiar with oil pastels.
![Megan Thee Stallion - Roc Steady (feat. Flo Milli) [Official Video]](http://i.ytimg.com/vi/HozPPyqW0dY/mqdefault.jpg)
My experience with oil pastels is limited, but this Paul Rubens set looks like a dream! 🤩
It certainly is!
I've used their other version, and these new ones look even better! The shape definitely looks more like Sennelier. Love your drawings (paintings?). The summer beach houses are so vibrant and happy, and the lion looks really awesome! ❤ Oil pastels will eventually dry, but it does take a few weeks.
Thanks, Becky! Yes, my sketchbook page is already much easier to handle, thank goodness. I still have to finish the lion since I didn't work on it today, but maybe I can squeeze a little time in on it tomorrow afternoon. 😅
It was great seeing this new formulation in action!
I had so much fun!
Love, love your lion.
Will admit as someone who had to be treated for heavy metals, I'm more comfortable seeing people blends paints with a stomp or wearing gloves. I have some inexpensive nonlaytex gloves that fit securely so work well.
I have seen an artist drag a stomp on the bottom of an oil pastel and use that for fine details.
Thank you for taking us along your art journey.
Oooh, good point about the heavy metals. If like to use these again and soon, so maybe I'll order up some gloves that fit me nicely. Thanks, Eileen! Hugs.
Very nice work in this video. Oil pastels really are a lot of fun, aren't they? I have this same set of Paul Rubens Haiya oil pastels (I believe it is pronounced something like "high-ya") and the Paul Rubens Seascape set of 72. Got both of them from Amazon very recently. My experience was that the Haiyas popped up pretty frequently for me. Maybe you were searching longer ago when they were even newer and perhaps weren't very well-known? I haven't used them very much yet, so I don't have too much experience with them. But I also have Caran d'Ache Neopastels, Mungyo Gallery, and Sennelier oil pastels in my arsenal, and I've been using these for years. They all work well together, and I'm hoping the Paul Rubens will, too. It has been my experience that in general, oil pastels will never completely dry out. They will dry some, but never completely, and how much they dry and how quickly varies from brand to brand. They don't really behave the same way as oil paint in this regard, and I think the main reason for this is that the oils used in oil pastels are different than those used in oil paints. I think oil paints use a vegetable-based oil like linseed oil, where oil pastels typically use a mineral oil. Plus, oil pastels have some wax and other binders mixed in with the pigments. As for fixative, Sennelier makes a really good oil pastel fixative for $18 or $19. I have also used Spectrafix on oil pastels with good results. Anyway, I hope this info is helpful and thanks for the fine video!
Yes, very helpful information, thank you! I'll look into those two fixatives, too.
@@MirandaWatsonArt You're welcome. Glad I could help!
Hey have you tried the haiya? Can you tell me how it feels compared to mungyo and sennelier? Thanks
@@yuniaaniza5120 Yes, I have both the Haiya 48 and 72 set of oil pastels. I really like them, too. In my opinion, the Hayas are softer than the Mungyo line and maybe just a tad bit harder than Senneliers. Overall, I think the Haiyas are very comparable to Senneliers, but I am honestly not sure how the Haiyas compare with Senneliers on lightfastness. I suspect that the Haiyas are reasonably lightfast, but I don't what method the Paul Rubens manafacturer used to determine their lightfast ratings. On the other hand, I'm completely confident in Sennelier's ratings.
@@atvalleau hi, I seriously appreciate your comment🙏🏻 I'm still new to this oil painting stuff and I bought the wrong set of pastels at first, then I bought the mungyo 12 too. The mungyo is good, I understand the hype towards it, but I'm curious with haiya since many told it's a sennelier dupe. I'm okay with the fact if haiyas are not light-fast because I'm still at my trying stage, and considering the price I think I'll go with haiya before trying out the senneliers. Hope you're having a good day☺️
Love the portrait of the lion. These oil pastels looks like so much fun to use.
Thanks so much 😊 They really are fun to use.
They look like a lot of fun!
Definitely. 😀
The lion is impressive! The eagle too. Thank you for reviewing the product. I’ve been curious about these new oil pastels.
You're welcome and thank you for the complements and for watching today. 👀
I like these. Glad you shared. Your paintings are always the best
Aww, thank you. 😊
I'm so relieved to see that they are still super creamy. I was thinking about picking up another set from them soon and saw that they were in new packaging and blend. I think I shall pick up a set when I can for sure now. c:
Thank you for your honest review and feedback it's appreciated. The art pieces that you made are very lovely as well. The big cat is stunning with the colors you've chosen definitely made it come to life though it wasn't finished in video.. :) Best wishes. ❤
Thank you; I'm glad it was helpful!
Loved the lion! Beautiful. You adapt so well to so many different supplies.
Thank you, Tabitha. These were such a joy to work with.
I think your title page of the coloring book came out great!!! That one is somewhere on the wishlist or deep in the Amazon cart.... LOL. I also got them all over my hands - I guess these would be a good time to use a pastel holder. Who needs oil paint?? Hey, how do you like the Paint Coach brushes?? What about gessoing the canvas?? I LOVE the Lion!! I guess, when using these, it's best to be loose and expressive. I love how they blend!
Turned out very nicely! I’ve never used pastels on canvas-always pastel or multimedia paper. Cool idea!❤
It was fun to try it out that way and it worked surprisingly well!
Looks very enjoyable to use, i will be getting these soon...thx for sharing...
Hopefully you'll love them!
Great review ! These pastels look like a blast. Have a great weekend, Miranda.
Thank you! I enjoyed myself immensely. Have a great week!
Your video was so useful and you're an amazing artist! ♡
Aw, thank you! 😊
They look similar to the Sennelier Artist Oil Pastels which are very soft and creamy too.
I like them a lot, more than the harder versions I already worked with at school.
You can also try using silicone modeling tools to move the colours on your surface. With them you can blend the colours nicely, when working on details. This should work if they are like the Sennelier ones.
By the way I often sea that oil and soft pastel artists alike say that they are painting and not drawing. 😉
I finally watched Lindsay's video today and I saw she was using a silicone tool. Brilliant! That would have worked so much better than the blending stump. Next time! These were fun!
Oooooo they look nice! Love the paintings! The only oil pastels I've tried are the Mungyo water-soluble oil pastels and i love them. Vibrant and very pigmented. I'm just a sucker for anything water-soluble.❤
I've heard good things about the Mungyo sticks. Yes, these were really fun to work with, for sure!
Beautiful painting!
Thank you. 😊
Miranda! If I didn’t know you by your videos and had this on mute, I wouldn’t know you’d never used them by your results. That’s all your experience showing up in these paintings 🤗 Loved that you dove right in and went from the cute beach huts to the canvas.
Besides all that my fav is when you commented on your sand waves “because I say so!” Perfecto! 👏
Just before finding your video I impulsively bought the 72 set…I wanna play set that doesn’t feel so sennelier $ precious. Now, I’m even more excited to get these onto a canvas panel.
Oh and oil pastels can go atop acrylic & oil, but not under…sorta like the “Fat over Lean” Oil painting mantra. Can also go easily over watercolor underpainting & watercolor over OP as resist…just be sure to use your non-favorite, maybe oil pastel only watercolor brush as cleaning will be a bit more aggressive. Don’t want oils in our watercolor pans.
Thanks Miranda for another great video 👋💜👋
Thank you. ❤️ All your comments were such a pleasure to read. I had so much fun with these pastels and it makes me excited to think of using them again. That's always a good thing! I hope you have so much fun using yours. 💓
I have their old ones and really enjoy them, but I've only used the kids' quality when I was in elementary school, so I'm used to more of a crayon type ordeal. These look even more soft than their other formulation. I've only done a few "paintings" and I started taping them down on boards that are about an inch bigger on all sides to I can pick it up and move it etc. without messing my picture up. I feel like they get used up quickly though because theyre quite soft and stinks because its not like you can buy these open stock, i think that's the only draw back with these type of company pastels. Your painting turned out beautifully! Anyway, thanks for sharing these with us. Have a great day
I love the idea of taping it to a board so you can move it more easily. Thank you, Danielle! These were dreamy to work with but you're right; I think they'll get used up quickly. Hopefully they'll have open stock available in the future.
i really need to try these pastels, love 'painting' with oil pastels, and i use a brush which really helps with details
nice looking beach huts 🙂
Ah, using a brush is such a good idea 💡 How come I never think of the simplest things? 😂
Hahahaha I had so much fun watching this! They look messy, but the fun kind of messy! They're on my list to buy next year! Your paintings turned out really well. I loved those little houses, they have such a cute vibe. I can't wait to see you use these with oil paints! I'm so curious about how that will work!
They ARE the fun kind of messy. I smile just thinking about using them again. So glad you enjoyed watching this; it's always nice to hear that. I'm definitely going to have to mix them with my oil paints on a painting and see what happens. Should be fun!
You can spray it with a fixative spray to seal it, prevents transfer and it will allow U to add more layers.
Okay, thank you!
Fabulous lion!
Thanks! I love him.
2:20 agreed, some Chinese manufacturers go for the high quality market same as there is plenty of European stuff which is absolute tat even though the price tag pretends it isn’t . I just wish there was an international high quality trade assurance badge so we could tell the difference.
Очень классно.💯 Маслянная пастель чудо материал.❣️❗
Man I didn't know how easy for oil pastels to melt! I was really tempted to get these because of the good reviews I've seen but I live in a very hot and humid country so I don't trust they will arrive to me safely 😂💔
And I love the colorful lion 😍
Yes, many reviews said they arrived melted, so best to be cautious. ⚠️
Hello, thank you so much for the detailed review. I really want this set but i saw there are some pigments used like cadmium yellow PY35 in quite a lot of the colours. And i woud not want that on my skin. How do you cope with that?
I will be using gloves that fit me properly in the future. In fact, I should order them right now...
Hiii! I haven't been able to keep up with all the videos, but I'm so excited to see this one. I found these "randomly" on Amazon the other day and just received the 60 set this afternoon. sooooo creamy! People say they are Sennelier dupes. I tried them versus other oil pastels I had and they are so much better. You can use them with a palette knife. Funny thing, I just picked up three Shiva oil sticks because my local store is discontinuing them. But they smell soooo much (not the sticks themselves, but the papers I used them on....) I thought they'd be like a jumbo oil pastel, but, boy they really smell of linseed. Somehow I ended up ordering the RF sample sticks in the aftermath LOL.
I am very glad you're being super picky now about who you say yes to!!! But Rubens, HECK YES. I saw they do have the large oil sticks -- just in white and black -- they are actually labeled oil paint. I wonder if they are the same formula as the small kind? I also saw they have an interesting large set of shimmery gansai paints. Also soft pastels, hand rolled! Which are also supposed to be Sennelier dupes. (I know you hate soft pastels, but I've been enjoying them lately. Not so much the mess...) I *also* loved the saying on the cover, about letting more people enjoy Chinese colors! And that they all show the pigment colors.
The R&F and the Shivas are oil sticks, not oil pastels -- just linseed oil and pigment (like oil paint), whereas the oil pastels are mineral oil, wax, and pigment. The oil sticks do dry, like oil paint, while the oil pastels never completely dry, just harden to a degree, though as others have mentioned, they can be sprayed with fixative and, I think, varnished.
@@margaretspringer9197 Hey, thanks for that! The ones I was referring to is that Reubens is making giant "Oil Paint" sticks that I have not tried yet, so I don't know whether they are like the oil pastels or more like R&F. Now they are out of stock but the seller told me they will return.
@@margaretspringer9197 Well, I checked and they are back in stock, so... hahah I have some on the way. They say OIL PAINT in big letters and have a tube to keep them in, but then the marketing compares it to 7 oil pastels.
@@margaretspringer9197 I got the Paul Reubens giant sticks and they are oil pastel -- I can smell linseed from a mile away. Still fun though. They came very nicely packed.
These look nice. They are not too expensive. I won't be getting them any time soon because I don't really know how to use pastels. But it was fun watching you create that beautiful lion. Does he have whiskers yet?
No whiskers yet but it's on the list!
Great paintings demo-ed Miranda…TFS! How do they compare to Mungyo Oil pastels?
Thank you, Gwen. I don't have the Mungyo pastels, so unfortunately I'm not able to answer your question. 😞
@@MirandaWatsonArt Thank you! I picked up the 48 and they are a dream to use. I used the matte Krylon fixative spray on my piece, and the smearing stopped immediately.
Okay, thanks! I'll see if I have that one or not.
Hi.
Did you have the chance to test them for lightfast? 😊
Hi! Not yet, but I'm thinking September will be my "lightfast" month. Fingers crossed.
@@MirandaWatsonArt cool!! 🥰
Ho long oil pastel dries to be shipped?
It seems like they never fully dry out, so I would recommend using some kind of fixative on it first. They say 6 months to a year on oil paintings, but I'm not as familiar with oil pastels.
❤
What’s inside ur mineral spirits container?
Odorless mineral spirits.
That's weird, I have no problem locating either on Amazon Canada.
That's good! And things may have changed since this video was released, too. They are probably more available now.
Sennelier are even creamier.
I have to find my three and try them out!
Quality oil pastels ARE real oil paint. Whith binder and bees wax.