Lets hear it for oil pastels!!!!

“They are not as popular as dry pastels, so we don’t tend to stock them”. I walked out of the art shop angry and disappointed.

OIL PASTELS are beautiful, you can do anything with them. You can blend them, put one colour over another, fix them and draw over any mistake, where other media like watercolours are totally unforgiving. You can scrape these pastels off, scratch into them to get a printing effect. If you put a pencil mark over them, you get an effect like an etching. You can thin them with solvent such as “Zest it “or turps. With oil bars you can ‘go large’ and get really deep 

colour

yes they are messy, but messy is good here, they are expensive at £2.25 (may be cheaper in sets) Your drawing may have to be fixed and placed behind glass, but oh that sparkling colour!