Sadly, you cannot make “paintings” with pastels. You can create beautiful, finished drawings with pastels but paint is a different medium altogether. “Pastel pencils” are invariably a dry medium and paint, whether oil or water-based is always wet. read more
Unlike hard and soft pastel sticks, which have a certain degree of difficulty to master, pastel pencils are a lot easier to pick up and use from the start. read more
There are a number of other brands of artist quality pastel available: Art Spectrum, (which are on my 'to-try' list), Diane Townsend (which have a nice feel, but I can't get used to the shape), as well as Terry Ludwig, Great American, and Mount Vision. read more