Our pick of the best wax-based oil pastels for different needs.
Inscribe can be found as a budget set of oil pastels in many art shops and they claim high pigmentation and good lightfastness. This places them in the same category as the Faber Castell and Van Gogh oil pastels and they're a particularly popular option in the UK.Oil pastels differ from soft pastels in the binder used to make the sticks. They are a combination of powdered pigment, waxes and oils in varying combinations for each manufacturer.
There are water-based oil pastels, but they are a slight contradiction in terms and are not as satisfying to use as pure oil-based pastels. Due to their softness, oil pastels blunt easily but can be sharpened with a knife. The Holbein oil pastels behave like soft pastels by being square and able to produce thinner lines using their edges. Blending oil pastels and using sgraffito techniques gives them great flexibility.
Combining oil pastels with paint underpainting is often very successful as the sharpness of painted line can be combined with the intense colour and cover of the oil pastel. Fixing oil pastels is difficult and they remain sticky for a number of years until a proportion of their oils have evaporated. There are fixatives on the market but beware of the sheen that they can add to a work, which can be plastic-looking and not always very attractive.
If you like blending, then the more expensive pastels will inevitably serve you better. Medium softness pastels sometimes skid over each other as they are not always the same hardness. This can sometimes be overcome by reversing the order that you put down the two pigments – always ensuring the harder one is under the softer. Enjoy your first month for just £1 / $1 / €1
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