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These pencils more than met my expectations. As a homeschooling mother of 6, we go through colored pencils at a very fast rate as we use them to illustrate our learning, color in our workbooks, and draw pictures of the things we learn about. I like to work with the basic colors and encourage blending and shading when my children are coloring and drawing.
These colored pencils have beautiful basic hues, and lay down a nice, rich color. They also blend beautifully. At the beginning of our school year this year, I bought about 12 packs of colored pencils, half Crayola, and half Rose Art. I was not very pleased with either. The Crayola tended to be waxy, and the hues on the RoseArt were not quite right, and both seemed to break often. Neither blended as well as I liked. I wanted a better quality pencil, but at the rate we go through them, I could not afford the more expensive art pencils. This pack of Prang colored pencils perform nearly as well as the nicest art colored pencils.
I love having this "classroom pack." It keeps us organized, and we have plenty of each color, right in its place. My children no longer have to dig through their pencil caddies to find their basic colors. We feel much more organized and able to illustrate and draw much more easily. My older children (13 and 7) who have had extensive art classes in the use of colored pencils--they were ecstatic over these. They draw, color, shade, and blend so much better than the Crayola and RoseArt we had been using. My younger children are finding it much easier to learn how to shade and blend, because these pencils are of a much better quality. It is very hard to create shading or a nice blend with waxy pencils that don't leave a rich color, or with brittle pencils, or with pencils that don't quite get it right on the basic hues.
My only disappointment is how these pencils were packed for shipping. We were quite dismayed when we opened the shipping box and saw it full of little colored pencil tips that had broken off. During shipping, the pencils had jumped out of their compartments and as a result, many of them had broken tips. This could be resolved if Prang could seal or shrink-wrap the pencils into their compartments in order to prevent movement during shipping.
However, we sharpened them up and got busy using them right away.
