Drawing With Oil Pastels

Video Transcript

"Welcome everybody, I'm Lars Eric Robinson with Lars-Er-Arts, All Around Art-Tainment is my slogan, and today we're going to talk about, how to draw with oil pastels. There's a variety of different kinds of oil pastels out there, I chose these cray-pas they call them by Sakura. Anyway what you can do is, even use a tone paper a thicker Cansan tone paper, what I have here. And I did a copy of my piece that I have that was done in charcoal, but I fixed this and you can go on top of that with the oil pastels. Even if you're using oils it's made out of the same thing, so if you we're doing glazes with oils on here and you would use your oil pastels as a last minute texture to give brush strokes a little bit more help, has a very good stroke and you could use it with your oil paintings, but, multimedia is wonderful also, you can take- it's easy, it's like I'm drawing but with oil. So if you can imagine this all done with oils, you can actually take and blend this with some turpentine or mineral spirits that you use. So let me demonstrate, so you see, the line goes down like that, having fun with the hair, you can create nice lines with it and still keep it textured. Now if you really want to pop out some highlights, it's actually pretty good for that too, which I started right here, as you an see it's really good for that. So once again, an overview, you can use oil pastels on top of your final piece that you're working on, you can use it on any mediums, but you can never go on top of this oils again with a water-base product, this has to be a final step to your piece. For example, if you want to use glazes on that with oils that's great for that. So it gives you the overview of how oil pastels work, and I like it as a medium because I'm a drawer, and I love to draw. Thank you guys so much."