![]() The Unison pastels are about the same price (sometimes more) as the Schmincke soft pastels when purchased individually, putting them at the higher end of the price scale. Still, all the pastels in my box of Unisons had a consistent texture (unlike in other brands where you get some medium-soft and then a few hard and scratchy pastels), so that was another plus. They also seem to drop a lot more dust than my Rembrandt pastels did (which seems to be the norm the softer the pastel, the dustier it is). The downside to their soft texture is that they are rather crumbly I accidentally mashed the ends of two or three of them with my finger as I was taking them out of the foam insert in the box. They are also incredibly silky and smooth to draw with and can lay down strong, thick colour in only one or two strokes. The size and shape varies a little but in general these half sticks seem to be a bit chunkier than half sticks in other brands. ![]() Unison pastels are hand-rolled and therefore didn’t have to have their sides sanded off when I first started using them they way the Rembrandts and some of the Winsor & Newton pastels did. The colours were pure and beautiful, thanks to Unison’s manufacturing process which uses different related hues to create lighter and darker colours rather than just mixing white or black into base colours. Though I suppose it would be difficult to select a balanced range of colours for a set of only 16 colours (out of more than 300 colours in the Unison range), I was disappointed and a little bewildered by the fact this set didn’t include any browns, though I did like the lovely deep purples I got instead. The first of those sets was the Unison 16 half-stick set. ![]() I had heard good things about a few brands, so I ordered a few small sets from Jackson’s just to try them out. Though I love my Rembrandt soft pastels, I thought it would be nice to have a set of softer pastels to add some final layers. ![]()
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