How to use oil pastels
JaKe
Could anyone recommend how to use these creatures? Any tips? Books?
Web sites? Would be helpful.
Thanks,
JaKe
M.
by Bill Creevy
1991
ISBN 0-8230-3902-1
Note: If you use oil pastels on paper be sure to gesso, or size
the paper with acrylic medium before you begin, otherwise you
will get grease stains and eventually it will eat away at your
paper. Daniel Smith has the perfect art board for oil pastels,
check them out on the web.
Marilyn
James W. Foster
to blend them with turps for a smoother look. I don't think it's posible to
'fix' them like chalk pastels (anyone know any different?) so you'd best
cover the drawings with a layer of tissue paper or something when they're
being stored to try and protect them from smudging.
-james
www.users.globalnet.co.uk/~jfostr/artzone.htm
M. <bra...@direct.net> wrote in message news:37D931...@direct.net...
Marge Inal
>
>I don't have much experience with pastels but I've been told it's possible
>to blend them with turps for a smoother look.
Or a finger...
> I don't think it's posible to
>'fix' them like chalk pastels (anyone know any different?)
You can use an aerosol of varnish to seal them just as
you would an oil painting. Oil pastels are essentially
the same only with a wax (beeswax?) base. As with oils,
one should let the finished work 'age' for several
months before varnishing.
>so you'd best
>cover the drawings with a layer of tissue paper or something when they're
>being stored to try and protect them from smudging.
You probably meant to say 'wax paper.' Tissue paper
would stick to the fresh pastels, I'd think, and
result in pulling away some of the pastel when taken
off. Glassine is another 'paper' that many artists
use between prints, etc to avoid sticking.
James W. Foster
Marge Inal <do...@emailme.com> wrote
> Or a finger...
>
Good point! I always prefered using my finger, I didn't know one was
allowed to admit to such things in public... (bad life drawing tutor
experience)
<snip>
> You probably meant to say 'wax paper.' Tissue paper
> would stick to the fresh pastels, I'd think, and
> result in pulling away some of the pastel when taken
> off. Glassine is another 'paper' that many artists
> use between prints, etc to avoid sticking.
>
Yeah, that was what I was thinking of, thanks. Got tissue paper on the
brain at the moment for some reason.
Bye for now,
-james
Marge Inal
>
>> Or a finger...
>>
>
>Good point! I always prefered using my finger, I didn't know one was
>allowed to admit to such things in public... (bad life drawing tutor
>experience)
There's also a paper 'stump' that most artists who do
a lot of drawing use for 'smearing' and blending.
It's most useful for charcoal and graphite drawing
but also can blend Prisma colors and pastels, both
chalk pastels and oil pastels. Stumps come in various
sizes from pencil-size to round as your thumb.
~Artist~
Marge Inal wrote:
>
> In article <37da...@news.jakinternet.co.uk>, jwfo...@UKARTISTS.com says...
> >
> >I don't have much experience with pastels but I've been told it's possible
> >to blend them with turps for a smoother look.
>
> Or a finger...
>
> > I don't think it's posible to
> >'fix' them like chalk pastels (anyone know any different?)
>
> You can use an aerosol of varnish to seal them just as
> you would an oil painting. Oil pastels are essentially
> the same only with a wax (beeswax?) base. As with oils,
> one should let the finished work 'age' for several
> months before varnishing.
>
> >so you'd best
> >cover the drawings with a layer of tissue paper or something when they're
> >being stored to try and protect them from smudging.
>
> You probably meant to say 'wax paper.' Tissue paper
> would stick to the fresh pastels, I'd think, and
> result in pulling away some of the pastel when taken
> off. Glassine is another 'paper' that many artists
> use between prints, etc to avoid sticking.
Damar