OHUHU Soft Pastel Review: Surprising results!

[@craftykat]

Thank you! I just ordered these on Amazon and I'm looking forward to trying them. Your painting is beautiful. 💖💖

[@gingerramsden-artist]

Have fun!

[@Josie1987]

Beautiful painting! I didn’t know you could use water with them. Thank you for the review and demonstration.

[@gingerramsden-artist]

My pleasure 😊 Let me know if you have any other questions about them!

[@TerrieJohnson731]

They have the 72 set for 19.99 black Friday sale and I decided that they will add to my start-up collection. Thank you for the review 🎉🎉🎉

[@gingerramsden-artist]

You're welcome!

[@TerrieJohnson731]

I keep watching over and over. The most beautiful painting and review of this product. I can learn a lot from you ❤ going to have a look at your content 🎉🎉🎉

[@gingerramsden-artist]

Please do!

[@jefftow1]

I bought these on the last day of a special offer from amazon £16.99 my first pastels ever my only gripe was not filling the grain in the paper but painting like you did with under painting might help. I have some good pastel paper arriving today so I’ll be interested to see how that goes. Thank you for recording this video it was very helpful

[@gingerramsden-artist]

you are most welcome, and let me know how you get on! They are very soft so just be mindful of that when using them with sanded paper as it will eat the pastels very fast!

[@jefftow1]

@@gingerramsden-artist im looking forward to trying better pastels but its a big outlay without getting a feel for the medium first. Off to watch some more of your videos 🙏

[@TerrieJohnson731]

I'm a new subscriber🎉🎉🎉

[@gingerramsden-artist]

Thank you!

[@TerrieJohnson731]

Is there a cool light pink in the set,????

[@gingerramsden-artist]

Pink 017 Carnation is the lightest cool pink in the box

[@TerrieJohnson731]

What paper do you use and did you find them to be dustier than Sennelier or Rembrandt? I have just purchased a lot of Koh I Noor and I love them 🎉 thank you ❤

[@gingerramsden-artist]

So the paper for the swatching is the Daler Rowney Murano Pastel Paper and the painting was done on a piece which came with the pack of pastels and is Ingres Pastel Paper. I would say because of how soft they are, they do produce more dust than most of the pro pastels, probably due to the cheaper and heavier use of binders and fillers. They do produce more dust on pastel paper than sanded pastel paper. Hope that helps!

[@alicethemadrabbit1842]

I tried these and then immediately wanted to buy a second box. 20 bucks and they're nicely pigmented and super soft.... i've paid more for worse. And I love that they have natural color options. My only complaint really is the lamp black. It's not black, not even a little and one of my pieces doesn't look as good as it could because of it.

[@gingerramsden-artist]

Absolutely agree, and is a common problem with the budget end pastels, however for budget deep blacks, try using compressed charcoal, because it's compressed it's a lot deeper in tone and cheaper than pastels, plus usually comes in bigger sticks so can go longer. If you watch my new art supplies put to the test video you can see two charcoals in that video and how dark the compressed one is. Hope that helps!

[@TX10X10]

they seem very creamy?

[@gingerramsden-artist]

I was expecting them to be more dry, but yes they are more buttery than the Sennelier but not quite as much as Blue Earth. 🙂

[@ellynsart3523]

Thank you for your review. I have had mine for some time. I liked them and am surprised that there were not more reviews. How do you fix your chalk pastels?

[@gingerramsden-artist]

@@ellynsart3523 I try not to use fixative and get them behind glass as soon as possible as even the best fixative will darken the pastel slightly. For storage I layer my paintings between sheets of glassine paper which stops the pastel lifting or smudging, I also use glassine for shipping my painting out. Hope that helps!

[@ellynsart3523]

@@gingerramsden-artist Thank you for your response.

[@TerrieJohnson731]

Please don't blow. It's a very bad thing to teach people who might be sensitive to the dust. Tap onto a paper or something?

[@gingerramsden-artist]

Hi Terrie, I have an small portable dust extract system with a hood and HEPA filter, the hood sits directly over the workspace so it picks up any particles in the air. When you are working flat, you can't tap it off and as I tape my surfaces, you don't want to have to keep undoing the tape to pick it up to tap. I do pretty much all of my work on a canted surface like my easel, this helps to stop dust build up on the surface, it also has a handy tray along the bottom support which collects the dust. I bag this and then add a few drops of water and reform into a new pastel to reduce waste (admittedly this does only produce some strange but wonderful greys and muds!!) I have both eczema and Asthma so I have to be fairly careful, in fact I've found at least two pigments I can't use at all as it makes my hands and arms super itchy. I'll see if I can do a video on my safety stuff and see if that helps people who want to get into pastels but worry about the dust.

[@TerrieJohnson731]

@gingerramsden-artist I would really like that. I do think I ought to run my air purifier when working with them, but I am paying for heat at the moment. Tap in to a trash bin will have to be good enough. Thank you for clarifying.