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These firm pastels are great!! They are highly pigmented and are great for underpainting. Let me tell you a little secret for the new pastel artist wanting to practice but find pastel papers are just too darn expensive. Purchase some Liquitex Clear Gesso (purchased here on Amazon) and you can turn anything into a drawing surface for your pastels! You can apply the Clear Gesso to cardboard scraps, watercolor paper, cut up cereal boxes, basically anything can be made into a pastel drawing surface! It must be the clear gesso and it will give the surface a tooth to hold the pastel. I have a little experience with pastels, and this tip has saved me a fortune in practice!! Practice first, then put your creations on more expensive papers and surfaces! I think you will be amazed!!