Video At last, I made some video art lessons in oil pastels! Come see for yourself how this versatile modern art medium handles. My first tutorial is lower resolution since it began as a test. It came out well despite one minor blooper. Have a laugh when I drop the camera toward the end and try this trick at home with your oil pastels. Most brands are opaque on black paper. You can get both the Art Spectrum Colourfix paper and Caran d'Ache Neocolor II at either Blick or Jerry's Artarama. A less expensive alternative for the lovely paper is to pick up just the black Colourfix primer and use it on 140lb watercolor paper. Mindful of beginners' budgets, my next two videos use my favorite of the loony cheap student grade oil pastels. Part One includes the color wheel, primaries, secondaries and tertiaries, tints and a skin tone shading bar showing blending with sticks. Part Two covers mixing Shades, browns and other tertiary neutrals, also creating optical mixing with pointillism or crosshatching.
Oil Pastels 101: A Comprehensive Guide to Painting with Oil Pastel All images in this article have been used with permission and are copyright their respective artists. Click the images to visit the artists’ websites and learn more. The first time I saw a set of oil pastels was at a drugstore in a very small display of art supplies. It cost a dollar and change for a set of 24, two dollars and change for a larger set of 36. The colors looked bright, the oil sticks were short, round and wrapped, and the box cheerily announced that everything inside was non toxic and safe for children. I lumped it in with children’s watercolor sets and crayons, just from its price and presentation, and passed it by. Later on in New Orleans when I was first starting out as a street artist, I reconsidered the medium. After studying a package, I discovered that I could thin them with oil mediums and decided that it would be an inexpensive way to do some oil paintings, so I picked up a set of 24, along with a bottle of turpentine and some canvas boards, and got started. .
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