Oil pastel is another amazing drawing tool. In appearance, it is like a normal children's wax crayons, but they can draw amazing things!
When I was in art school, we had very conservative teaching. We studied the work with a simple pencil, watercolor and gouache, but did not work with coal, sanguine, even the usual dry pastel did not draw. In those days it was not easy with art materials.
A few years ago I bought a set of oil pastels. Surprisingly, I tried to draw with these crayons even before I started working with dry pastel. It was interesting to get unusual pictures, because they were bright and easy to draw, like colored pencils, only several times easier.
For example, here is a peacock that I drew for one of my classes with the kids, and then he kept lying in the drawer. Recently I pulled out the pastels and decided to finish the drawing. You can work with oil pastels simply by drawing, as with pencils, as well as using the method of rubbing. I usually do this with my fingers, but you can take a piece of paper and blend some area in the picture. Here you can see the large feathers, neck and back of the bird.
Gray paper, color oil pastel, dimensions 35x35 cm
Yes. The colors are very bright with oil pastels, and they're easy to draw with. One tricky thing I like to do with them is make a drawing on paper, then do a wash, or even spot colors, with watercolors over the drawing. The areas of the paper covered by the oil pastels won't take the watercolor paint, but the areas left untouched will. It creates some cool color contrasts and odd, unpredictable texture effects, sometimes---especially if you blot dry the watercolor areas with paper towels... Fun stuff to experiment with!
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Wow! Thank you for your advice. I will definitely try this technique next time : )
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Beautiful work, I love what the oil pastel looks like in the peacock, I don't use a lot of oil pastel because of lack of experience and because I think you can't create amazing things with them, I almost always see dry pastel and that's why I think They are better.
Thank you for your publication, it helped me to clear up some doubts regarding oil pastel. ;)
Oil and dry pastel are still different things. I think if you like something, you should definitely try it.
Beautiful and colorful. I dumped my own crayon because of the paints it leaves on one's hand and also it stains on work easily.
Thank you! I think you are an incredibly creative person, @maxwellmarcusart, and will survive all the troubles. : )
I hope so. Have you ever wondered where this guy @maxijgcomm is?
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Sorry, I do non know about this fellow, friend
I think you do. Probably you have forgotten. That was my previous account. I lost access to it.
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so beautiful and lovely paiting ! and colors are very nice , ❤️
Oh, thank you, beautiful Persian Princess Adele. : )
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