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Types of Pastels for Creating Pastel Art
How to Blend Oil Pastels
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Many artists find store-bought oil pastels to be too expensive, but luckily there are ways to make them at… More
Learn how to blend oil pastels in this free pastel art video.… More
Oil pastels can be expensive, so you'll want to protect your collection from damage. This can easily be do… More
Most oil pastels are a combination of wax, oil and pigment, and the harder oil pastels are usually placed … More
Using oil pastels requires a paint thinning medium to blend out the color smoothly. Use oil pastels with t… More
Painting with oil pastels involves applying the color to the canvas and using paint thinner to blend the c… More
Drawing with oil pastels can be the main medium or can be used as texture to give brush strokes more atten… More
When working with oil pastels, experiment by blending different colors together, using your fingers to ble… More
One of the most recent mediums in art, invented in Japan in post World War I, is oil pastels. Oil pastels … More
Oil pastels can be used to enhance monotypes and add definition to critical areas. See how pastels can be … More
Sealing oil pastels is done with a varnish that is applied six weeks after the work is completed. Seal oil… More
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Summary: Learn how to blend oil pastels in this free pastel art video.
Melody Mann has been involved in almost all forms of art medium since she was about 2 years old. She has been painting in mixed media for as long as she can remember. Her artwork has...read more
"I'm Melody on behalf of Expert Village. I told you I'd make you a flower and I did. Here's your flower. I'm just going to show you really quickly a trick for blending. We go over here. Just kind of put some purple in for you just so you can have some color to see. It's pretty hard probably looking thru your computer screen. Now we're just going to throw a little bit of the pink that I used. See the way that's already starting to blend. It mutes, it softens. That's the straight pink by itself. I'm just doing it in blobs so you can see what happens. There's a little bit lighter purple. We'll throw a little bit of yellow in there. See where these little spaces are, we can even pull some of the yellow thru there if we want to. Whatever color you want as a highlight you can just put over on top and then you can either blend it with a Q-tip or a naven or you can use your finger, which I choose not to do today, and you can draw all the other colors up into and down into the next color. I just wanted you to see that you can soften the entire thing just by using a naven. Or if you wanted it to be lighter, you can actually pull in some white and use that as your blender and lightener. In the next segment, we're going to show how to do a trick or 2 using these pastels."
eHow Article: How to Blend Oil Pastels
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robertsloan2 said
on 1/7/2009 Excellent short video on blending techniques. I am enjoying this series and hope you'll continue doing videos on oil pastels. The medium is more versatile than anything else I've used, yet gets far too little notice. It's economical, even the artist grade oil pastels don't cost more than comparable soft pastels or colored pencils. It's clean, dustless and durable if well cared for. Thanks for doing these good videos on oil pastels.
Robert A. Sloan
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