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product_id: 2942256
title: "SAKURA 12-Piece Cray Pas Specialist Colors May Vary Oil Pastel Set"
brand: "sakura"
price: "262 kr"
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reviews_count: 12
category: "Sakura"
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# performance-rated lightfastness high pigment concentration 12 vibrant pro-grade colors SAKURA 12-Piece Cray Pas Specialist Colors May Vary Oil Pastel Set

**Brand:** sakura
**Price:** 262 kr
**Availability:** ✅ In Stock

## Summary

> 🎨 Elevate your art game with colors that won’t quit!

## Quick Answers

- **What is this?** SAKURA 12-Piece Cray Pas Specialist Colors May Vary Oil Pastel Set by sakura
- **How much does it cost?** 262 kr with free shipping
- **Is it available?** Yes, in stock and ready to ship
- **Where can I buy it?** [www.desertcart.dk](https://www.desertcart.dk/products/2942256-sakura-12-piece-cray-pas-specialist-colors-may-vary-oil)

## Best For

- sakura enthusiasts

## Why This Product

- Trusted sakura brand quality
- Free international shipping included
- Worldwide delivery with tracking
- 15-day hassle-free returns

## Key Features

- • **Buttery Yet Precise:** Unique square shape and creamy texture for detailed strokes and layering
- • **Long-Lasting Brilliance:** Each pastel rated for superior lightfastness to keep colors fresh
- • **Metallic Magic Included:** Special silver and gold shades add luxe accents to your creations
- • **Affordable Artist Quality:** Pro-level performance at less than half the price of competitors
- • **Vivid Professional Palette:** 12 richly pigmented oil pastels for standout artwork

## Overview

The SAKURA 12-Piece Cray Pas Specialist Oil Pastel Set delivers professional-grade, highly pigmented pastels with exceptional lightfastness ratings. Featuring a unique square shape for precision and a creamy, velvety texture, this set offers 12 vibrant colors including metallic silver and gold. Perfect for fine art, commercial illustration, and detailed layering, it combines premium quality with unbeatable value, making it a must-have for discerning artists seeking lasting brilliance and versatility.

## Description

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Review: A tremendous value - Here's what you get for spending a lot less money than what other brands of artist quality oil pastels cost: -- Lightfastness ratings on every stick (they tend to be pretty good, actually) -- Very high pigment density (probably the defining characteristic of 'artist quality' colors, along with lightfastness) -- Handling characteristics somewhere between Holbein and Sennelier (buttery and low-crumbling, yet not like lipstick) -- A good color range (I think there are 88 colors in the entire range) -- Large sticks in popular square shape -- Available as open stock, with good prices (I think Blick has them for about $1.79 per stick, with mix-and-match price breaks) Most of the colors behave exactly as expected, but Specialist is far less expensive than all other professional brands. Other colors are downright jaw-dropping in how well they look and feel, most notably the metallics, blues, and blue-greens (the blues and blue greens have the appearance of translucent oil paint or a very high-end oil pastel or oil bar). The cadmium reds are actually red, with no detectable off-primary coloration. The yellows are eye-popping, even on very bright paper. The sticks have a slightly hard feel, but are creamy and buttery, especially once the tooth of the support has been filled. Specialist colors have an odd kind of velvety texture, too, almost similar to working with soft pastels. I find the overall feel of Specialist oil pastels to be somewhat similar to Holbein, but have their own unique handling quality that I find very pleasant. There is enough pigment stuffed into each stick and they are soft enough to easily make very appealing impasto strokes. Sakura does not use a siccative in their formula for the Specialist line, unlike several other artist-grade oil pastels (so, they will never really dry, oxidize, or bloom). Sakura seems to really understand how to price-point their products. Their Expressionist oil pastels, though very pleasant to work with and probably the best for the money in their respective class, cannot compare with the look and feel of Sakura's Specialist line. I've used Mungyo Gallery Artist Extra Soft oil pastels and they are very nice to work with, but Mungyo has almost nothing to say concerning the lightfastness of the pigments they use. Lightfastness data for Mungyo Gallery Artist Extra Soft just isn't available. Mungyo claims that their product is "fade-resistant," which does not inspire confidence. That's too bad, because the Gallery Artist Extra Soft oil pastels have a nice look and feel for the price. Anyone interested in trying a professional quality product would do well with Specialist oil pastels. They cost less than half what other brands cost, yet give you that same experience of working with soft, densely-pigmented sticks. I will definitely be adding sticks of open stock to my collection. Highly recommended.
Review: Very good pastels. Useful squared shape, love the colors and variety. Bit hard to blend though. - These pastels are actually very good. I like the Sakura brand and bought amazing travel watercolor boxes and water reservoir brushes from them in the past, also on desertcart. I own these and the Landscape Set from Sennelier. Comparing the two, I can say they are both very good, very different and complement each other nicely. As other reviewers noted, these are harder pastels, maybe medium hardness. The Sennelier are very soft in comparison. I found the Sakura/Cray-Pas to have great, vivid colors. The colors from Sennelier were great as well and are more suited for blending because they are so soft. The Sakura/Cray-Pas was definitely harder to blend, even using one of those tools with a little blending sponge at the end. They are better for underlying detail. The Sennelier were especially good for heavily laid accent colors on top of some Sakura/Cray-Pas. The two sets also complement each other in terms of shape, this one has square sections and the Sennelier are round. The shape of the Sakura/Cray-Pas was actually one of the qualities I was looking for. I wanted the possibility to drag one of the rectangular pastel corners over the paper, which up to now I could hardly do with the rounded Sennelier. I also wanted to mention the addition of, interestingly, silver and gold to the pastels of the set. I have not tried them yet though.

## Features

- Cray pas specialist oil pastel set
- Extremely high concentrated pigment formulation
- Each specialist is performance rated for light-fastness
- Enhances fine art drawing, commercial art and illustration
- Set consists of 12 colors

## Technical Specifications

| Specification | Value |
|---------------|-------|
| ASIN | B001DUG8Q6 |
| Assembly required | No |
| Batteries required | No |
| Best Sellers Rank | #189,224 in Arts, Crafts & Sewing ( See Top 100 in Arts, Crafts & Sewing ) #301 in Drawing Pastels |
| Customer Reviews | 4.4 4.4 out of 5 stars (215) |
| Is Discontinued By Manufacturer | No |
| Item Weight | 5.3 ounces |
| Item model number | ESP12 |
| Manufacturer | SAKURA |
| Number of pieces | 12 |
| Product Dimensions | 5.38 x 3.5 x 0.69 inches |

## Product Details

- **Age Range (Description):** Adult
- **Brand:** SAKURA
- **Ink Color:** Pastel
- **Material:** Wax and Oil
- **Writing Instrument Form:** Pastel Stick

## Images

![SAKURA 12-Piece Cray Pas Specialist Colors May Vary Oil Pastel Set - Image 1](https://m.media-amazon.com/images/I/81boF1myvKL.jpg)

## Customer Reviews

### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ A tremendous value
*by S***S on June 11, 2017*

Here's what you get for spending a lot less money than what other brands of artist quality oil pastels cost: -- Lightfastness ratings on every stick (they tend to be pretty good, actually) -- Very high pigment density (probably the defining characteristic of 'artist quality' colors, along with lightfastness) -- Handling characteristics somewhere between Holbein and Sennelier (buttery and low-crumbling, yet not like lipstick) -- A good color range (I think there are 88 colors in the entire range) -- Large sticks in popular square shape -- Available as open stock, with good prices (I think Blick has them for about $1.79 per stick, with mix-and-match price breaks) Most of the colors behave exactly as expected, but Specialist is far less expensive than all other professional brands. Other colors are downright jaw-dropping in how well they look and feel, most notably the metallics, blues, and blue-greens (the blues and blue greens have the appearance of translucent oil paint or a very high-end oil pastel or oil bar). The cadmium reds are actually red, with no detectable off-primary coloration. The yellows are eye-popping, even on very bright paper. The sticks have a slightly hard feel, but are creamy and buttery, especially once the tooth of the support has been filled. Specialist colors have an odd kind of velvety texture, too, almost similar to working with soft pastels. I find the overall feel of Specialist oil pastels to be somewhat similar to Holbein, but have their own unique handling quality that I find very pleasant. There is enough pigment stuffed into each stick and they are soft enough to easily make very appealing impasto strokes. Sakura does not use a siccative in their formula for the Specialist line, unlike several other artist-grade oil pastels (so, they will never really dry, oxidize, or bloom). Sakura seems to really understand how to price-point their products. Their Expressionist oil pastels, though very pleasant to work with and probably the best for the money in their respective class, cannot compare with the look and feel of Sakura's Specialist line. I've used Mungyo Gallery Artist Extra Soft oil pastels and they are very nice to work with, but Mungyo has almost nothing to say concerning the lightfastness of the pigments they use. Lightfastness data for Mungyo Gallery Artist Extra Soft just isn't available. Mungyo claims that their product is "fade-resistant," which does not inspire confidence. That's too bad, because the Gallery Artist Extra Soft oil pastels have a nice look and feel for the price. Anyone interested in trying a professional quality product would do well with Specialist oil pastels. They cost less than half what other brands cost, yet give you that same experience of working with soft, densely-pigmented sticks. I will definitely be adding sticks of open stock to my collection. Highly recommended.

### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ Very good pastels. Useful squared shape, love the colors and variety. Bit hard to blend though.
*by M***E on June 12, 2016*

These pastels are actually very good. I like the Sakura brand and bought amazing travel watercolor boxes and water reservoir brushes from them in the past, also on Amazon. I own these and the Landscape Set from Sennelier. Comparing the two, I can say they are both very good, very different and complement each other nicely. As other reviewers noted, these are harder pastels, maybe medium hardness. The Sennelier are very soft in comparison. I found the Sakura/Cray-Pas to have great, vivid colors. The colors from Sennelier were great as well and are more suited for blending because they are so soft. The Sakura/Cray-Pas was definitely harder to blend, even using one of those tools with a little blending sponge at the end. They are better for underlying detail. The Sennelier were especially good for heavily laid accent colors on top of some Sakura/Cray-Pas. The two sets also complement each other in terms of shape, this one has square sections and the Sennelier are round. The shape of the Sakura/Cray-Pas was actually one of the qualities I was looking for. I wanted the possibility to drag one of the rectangular pastel corners over the paper, which up to now I could hardly do with the rounded Sennelier. I also wanted to mention the addition of, interestingly, silver and gold to the pastels of the set. I have not tried them yet though.

### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ Intense and translucent colors
*by A***0 on July 3, 2024*

Mixable and preferable for lower layers because they are harder than Neopastel and Holbein. They come with a very useful mixing bar to soften the mixture. My opinion is based on my technique and style. I work on paper previously waxed with beeswax, which facilitates the application of various brands of oil pastels. It is preferable to work with them on textured or softly serrated papers for better grip of these oil pastels.

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