The pastels when I first saw the pastel I loved the colours beautiful . They are the colours I would use in Australia. Some pastels have a flat look. Not one was broken. I did do a test with 4 other brands of pastels. Mount Vision sat nicely on U art 400 sand paper you could tell the difference on the sand paper. I ask my husband which he thought was best we both agreed Mount Vision.They don't crumble. soft but hard Prefect.

Mount Vision Tropical Set packs an amazing punch of tropical color! MV shows up great over PanPastels on both sanded papers and on Canson Mi Tientes (non-sanded) papers. They are definitely soft enough to work. Yet the sticks don't crumble into dust when you pick them up or use them unlike some of the softest, soft pastels. For highlights the MV worked just as well as Great American and Girault. Worked better than the firmer medium soft Art Spectrum pastels. The sticks are generously over-sized and should last quite a while. I plan to use them predominately for finishing work over PanPastels. They are also great on their own. The tropical color set adds some lovely finishing punch to PanPastels. This set is just what I needed and work exactly the way I want them to.

Love these! Great colors and creamy feel on application. Soft without falling apart when you touch them! Great colors and pigment saturated