How to use Oil Pastels for Beginners | Find Your Art Medium Ep. 8
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Published 2022-03-24
0:00 In this video
I quickly tell you what you can expect from this video.
0:49 What are Oil Pastels?
First off I talk about what oil pastel and how to spot if something is oil pastel or soft pastel.
1:58 Supplies: Oil Pastel Sticks
We also look into what art supplies you need to get started. I talk especially about the different brands and their prices, the color variety of each brand and I'll give you my recommendations for oil pastels for beginners.
4:06 Supplies: Painting Surface
Then we talk about the painting surface and you will find out if oil pastels can be used on canvas, wood, glass or paper. (Spoiler alert: It's all of the above!)
5:08 Techniques: Blending
We continue with the most common techniques when working with oil pastels and I show you three different ways they can be blended on paper.
5:50 Techniques: Impasto
6:03 Techniques: Layer & Scratch
6:34 Advantages of Oil Pastels
While we discuss advantages and disadvantages of oil pastel as an art medium you can see me paint a church in the woods in the background and I give you tutorial like tips with written notes.
The list of advantages also anwers questions like:
Are they good for landscape painting? Are they difficult to clean? How exact do I have to be when working with them? Can oil pastels dry out?
9:41 Disadvantages of Oil Pastels
We look at the things that are not so great about this art medium and all the while try to answer the question 'Would you like Oil Pastels?'
I also give you tips on how to counter these disadvantages.
13:08 Final Review: Oil Pastels
Let's have a summary of Oil Pastels as an art medium. We answer the questions 'are oil pastels fun to work with?' 'how expensive are they?' 'how much know-how do you need for oil pastels?' and 'is it a hassle to work with them?'
I hope this guide is helpful to you and gives you some valuable information.
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All Comments (21)
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One more thing, oil pastels work excellently with soft color pencils like Prismacolor, Derwent Drawing, or Derwent Coloursoft.
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9:08 that little house look awesome. I cannot live without hairspray, it is fantastic and beautiful scented fixative, a joy to use and makes oil pastel drawing dry in 5 minutes.
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I would add that I found the sculpture silicone tools to both rub the pastel where I want it like using a brush, and to mix small amounts to the color I want to use, and you can remove a little with the spoon shaper one if it’s gotten too heavy.
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Excellent video thank you. I have only recently discovered oil pastels and I really like them. The biggest tip I would add is that Sennelier makes an oil pastel fixative spray that will fix the paint so you won't be able to change it but you can be sure it won't smudge.
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SO helpful! Thank you!!
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The wax in oil pastels is non-drying. The oil WILL eventually dry out and you should use your Oil pastels within 3 years of opening them.
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I love the artist personality fit discussion. Haha! Thank you so much for making this video!
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I didn't want to admit it, but this artistic medium was made for me. you described all the advantages and all the disadvantages, and I loved both sides! I will devote myself to learning more and more.Your art with sticks was beautiful!
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Enjoyed the tips and reminder that you just need a blender or finger and paper along with your pastels. No need for a wide space to work in because of the little equipment needed to use oil pastels. Much appreciated, thank you for sharing! 🤗❤️👍🏾💯
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Very very very useful...no bs.....thank you !!
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12:58 your video is fantastic but since you don't use hairspray you are missing a brutally important tool to control oil pastels. Firstly, hairspray is cost effective human friendly to give protective final finish layer. Secondly, a gentle thin spray is enough to fixate the bottom layers and you can paint immediately a second layer on top without messing around with the bottom layers. That church looks gorgeous:D
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Thank you very much! Very useful video!
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what a beautiful drawing!!
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Thank you. You gave lots of good information. 👍
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Great video! Thank you
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Brilliant. Thankyou ❤
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Thank you! Well done. You are the first reviewer I have found to discuss toxicity….I was put off of soft pastels because of the dust. Now I have been playing with mixed media and have been interested in using the oil pastels, as well.
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A wonderful video. Thank you !!!!
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This is exactly what I needed, thank you!
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Thanks for the informative video! 🤗🥳
