Testing Paul Ruben's NEW Oil Pastels! It's Like Painting With Butter! 

Yes, please do more oil pastels. I actually use your teachings to help me with oil pastels. I am a beginner and it is actually difficult to find good video of oil pastel artist.

As someone who has never used oil pastels, this demo was perfect. Thank you. I would love to see more.

Yes please do more oil pastels especially a sunset. This picture is beautiful!

I really appreciated seeing this oil pastel process! Thank you for stepping out and doing something you're not familiar with! It has inspired me! 😊

That water is so beautiful! I think you need to do more oil pastel videos. It’s fun to watch you learn as I am in exactly the same place with this medium. We can learn together!😊

Yet another bow to your talent!! I loved this and the clouds look so realistic, I think like most of us we are very self critical . ❤

Love that you experimented with this less familiar but fun medium. I am trying to be less critical and experiment more in art, and this was really what I needed to see today. Thanks for doing it and please do more of these - oil pastels and other experiments! I love the final art you did too.

It was fun to watch! I love the water!!!!

Hi Emma! This video was very helpful! I have a set of 48. If you start off with the “harder” Paul Reubens for your under layers the new soft ones will layer on top. They are a fun change from watercolors once in awhile. Looking forward to more videos with these.😊

Thanking you. Emma.I enjoy the contrast of the ocean, sea and land with oil pastel. Great work and I thank you.

Wow! Loved how that painting turned out. Thank you for showing the practical side of learning oil pastels.

So very cool. Turned out way good in my opinion for not being your medium of choice! Excellent!!

I have been doing oil and soft pastels for a while now just to learn new things. I actually purchased these oil pastels earlier this week and they are arriving on Saturday! Now I can hardly way to try them!!❤

I think it looked great, especially the water. I personally love working with oil pastels. The colours are so rich and beautiful.

This is great to see another medium. Thanks for doing this, and hope you do more!

Wow that’s fantastic looking especially with the water & grasses. You make it look easy for not knowing what you are doing. 😂 Yes I would like to see you do more! Thanks for sharing this fun medium.

I really enjoyed this. I have only tried working with this medium once. It's helpful to see your process. Id love you to do a sunset!

Excellent how you place in the colors for the lovely pastel art😊

Nice technique with the grasses!!! I would reserve the blue for cooler colors in the background and bring warmer colors up front

I’m glad you did a review. I’m new to the medium and like seeing your take on it. On an aside, I’m still using watercolor paper from the subscription last year. Love the paper!

Please do more on oil pastels.🙏

Just beautiful! That water looks soooo good! I’ve recently discovered pastels as well and want to try some landscapes.

Beautifully done Emma.

Emma, what a fun video to watch! You did a beautiful job with this. I purchased some oil pastels a while back and haven't used them yet. This looks like a great tutorial for me to give it a go. I hope you and your family are happy and well. Take care.

I love watching this.

Thank you Emma!!! You're brave for sharing a new skill with us! Love the water! With love from a California Gramma ❤️

I like that this brand is eco-friendly. You pay more but they are healthier 🥳

This looks beautiful Emma. ❤️

Wow! You did a fabulous job! 😍

This was interesting. I have heard that with these pastels it works well if you use the harder Paul Rubens pastels for the base layers and then use these softer ones as your finishing layers. You can also use a palette knife to scrape some pastel onto your paper for an impasto look. And you can use the palette knife to scraffito through the pastels too. Very versatile to use. Your painting turned out lovely.

can't believe oil pastels are not your main medium, you're very expert at it, and I can also tell you've been to the beach enough, you have the eyes for it.

Thank you for the review! I've heard nice things about these across the board. Definitely going on my wish list.

You have natural talent! Beautiful

I'm not experienced with oil pastels, so I appreciate the review. Such lovely colors! they would be fun to try.

That turned out great!

I just bought this set too! Am anxious to try it

I have not used oil pastels in year, they are a fun meduim! Thank you

So happy you did this video. I just ordered the 72 set a few days ago after seeing 2 other reviews. Love love love Neocolor 11 so was inspired to try oil pastels. Please do more videos with this medium. Landscapes and flowers are my favorites. Amazon sells A pack of 2 white a pack of 2 black separately. Their larger - 1 white oil pastel is suppose to equal 7 regular size white. Looking forward to more videos on this new product. Never used oil pastels before… Aloha Sharon

I’m hoping to purchase these but I have no experience with oil pastels. The butter texture is intriguing. I saw another reviewer use a blending tool instead of your finger, which seems messy. Also saw someone using silicone nail art tools to work the pastels. Thanks for the interesting review. Your painting looks great!

What a cool medium!! Love the water!

THATS SO GOOD!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Great job!😊

Love this! it turned out great and it's so inspiring to watch your process 😍 They appear to be very similar to sennelier pastels but hopefully more affordable...I'm off to have a look now ☺️

Love these and I am also starting to try oil pastels. I bought a cheap set from the local store. What a waste of money so difficult to blend. So now I am on the hunt for a set. Your timing of this video is obviously meant. Thank you, Emma, for this great video. As always you are so amazing!

Thankyou for testing them out 👍 i think the Paul Rubens oil pastels would suit me better than the Sennelier ones

I have that exact set, it's like painting with lipstick, only had one that was a bit harder than the others. Am trying them on stretched canvas as an experiment but want to try them on a wood board and canvas board.

My goodness, you're a natural with those pastels !! Beautiful scene, and colors. I bet you're painting experience helped you here, because you're good at that too. Nice job. Makes me want to invest in some of those pastels. ☺☺💖💖 Karen from Canada

Love what you did, the water looks great. It makes me wanna jump right into it! I wonder if these are comparable to Sennelier with you saying that they were easy to blend and really smooth

You don’t need a fixative. Oil pastels dry down with air exposure over time, like oil paints. It will never completely harden but as long as there is no risk of it getting scratched or scuffed, it should be fine. Fixatives can actually ruin oil pastel paintings because it alters the colors and makes it very sticky/tacky, causing it to attract hair and dust, and sometimes creating an ugly sheen/gloss. Part of the beauty of oil pastels is its matte finish.

I have a few oil pastels but haven't used them yet since oil pastels do seem trickier to use

I love them

Pretty cool 👍. I like how the pastel have a different look and I think you did a great job! Thank you 😊. I don't think I'll ever buy them but they do look easy to use. Have a great day. JK FLORIDA USA 🇺🇸

Emma I never had used that pastel I thought they have to use with 💦 water. But is like 🖍️ crayons.

Hi interesting medium. Maybe there is a tool for application process.? Card or brush could work . wonder if other tools would work???

I love it 🥰🥰

I like listening to you, inspires me

Well done! I think it turned out very well - especially the water. Keep working at it, and maybe try the blending tools so you don’t have to worry about finding a clean finger to blend the different colors without contamination!😁

I’m not a fan of oil pastels because they’re so messy but these actually seem completely different 😮

Interesting Emma I like what you did with the pastels,I’m just learning how to use them too and I also like the tips on those,it makes them easier to draw with. Thank you 🙏

This makes me want to run right into the water.

Could you use some sort of thinner to make them blend a bit easier? Possibly oil paint thinner?

Oh that's beautiful Emma😍 Are these "Oil Pastel" water soluble like the Carand'ache "crayons"? How do you seal the painting?

I believe the hairspray trick is for soft pastels. I’m not sure it would be good for oil pastels.?

google traduction (my english is bad) : Hello and congratulations on your painting! I bought the same pastels recently and I love using them, but I have a question: how to properly store them? Indeed, it is sometimes 22 degrees in my apartment even this winter because it is facing south and some people are losing oil... And soon, I will probably return to the South of France where I am from . I don't know how I'm going to make sure they don't melt during transport or in the summer when it can easily be 42 degrees outside and very hot inside too (during heatwaves). I can't put on air conditioning because I will still be renting... Do you know of completely insulated boxes to make them resist the heat? Can we put them in the fridge? I don't want to lose this beautiful box of pastels...

Please tell me these are not like the Sennelier oil pastels, they are so soft and messy, I don't take them out of the closest. The Mungyo are still my #1 so far

I bought the original oil pastels a couple of years ago, yeah.. super messy! I created a flower.

Did you know these are a rip off of sennelier? They even have the same names and numbers as sennelier. Similar formulation, shape and wrapping. Just like the gallery mungyos are a rip off of neopastels with the same characteristics, names and numbers. I realized this when I bought a 48 set of neopastels and realized that it was the same exact set as the 48 set of mungyos. Same names, same colors, same numbers. Luckily the colors are not the exact same as they vary, but they are a copy nonetheless.

Hellou

It's called painting because the results look painterly.

Almost convinced til I saw they are made in China. 😢