How to use Oil Pastels for Beginners | Find Your Art Medium Ep. 8

In the 8th video of Find your art medium we answer many beginner's questions about oil pastels and the basics of how to use them!

0:00 In this video
I quickly tell you what you can expect from this video.

0:49 What are Oil Pastels?
First off I talk about what oil pastel and how to spot if something is oil pastel or soft pastel.

1:58 Supplies: Oil Pastel Sticks
We also look into what art supplies you need to get started. I talk especially about the different brands and their prices, the color variety of each brand and I'll give you my recommendations for oil pastels for beginners.

4:06 Supplies: Painting Surface
Then we talk about the painting surface and you will find out if oil pastels can be used on canvas, wood, glass or paper. (Spoiler alert: It's all of the above!)

5:08 Techniques: Blending
We continue with the most common techniques when working with oil pastels and I show you three different ways they can be blended on paper.

5:50 Techniques: Impasto
6:03 Techniques: Layer & Scratch

6:34 Advantages of Oil Pastels
While we discuss advantages and disadvantages of oil pastel as an art medium you can see me paint a church in the woods in the background and I give you tutorial like tips with written notes.
The list of advantages also anwers questions like:
Are they good for landscape painting? Are they difficult to clean? How exact do I have to be when working with them? Can oil pastels dry out?

9:41 Disadvantages of Oil Pastels
We look at the things that are not so great about this art medium and all the while try to answer the question 'Would you like Oil Pastels?'
I also give you tips on how to counter these disadvantages.

13:08 Final Review: Oil Pastels
Let's have a summary of Oil Pastels as an art medium. We answer the questions 'are oil pastels fun to work with?' 'how expensive are they?' 'how much know-how do you need for oil pastels?' and 'is it a hassle to work with them?'

I hope this guide is helpful to you and gives you some valuable information.

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