You can take a damp fine brush, swipe it lightly over the pastel, and apply to your image. This is great for fine detail work and layering colours for depth. Of course you can scrape a shaving onto, or write directly onto your craft sheet, mix with water to get stronger colour or mix bespoke colours.
Tips for Working with Oil Pastels 1. Hold the oil pastel crayon close to the tip and press firmly. 2. Cover the entire pap er with color. 3. Layer your colors! 4. Check with the teacher to be sure you have covered your entire paper with at least two layers of color before proceeding to the final step!! 5. Final step!
Dilute some oil pastels Moisten an oil painting paintbrush with white spirit or turpentine. Brush on the pastel: its pigments will blend and the color can be moved around just like paint.
Basics: use oil pastels to simply draw and blend with your fingers. Use a spatula or palette knife to blend while adding texture to your artwork. First you can try to use tiny pieces of oil pastels Or cover the part where your going to use the oil pastel with tissue to not get color on your fingers.
Wear a mask. Use paper made for pastels. Keep your coffee and snacks away from your work area. Have your board as vertical as possible to let the dust fall off. If you build a lot of layers, spray lightly with workable fixative. Remember that pastels are considered painting, not drawing, and work ingly.
I prefer to use colored construction paper as a base for work with oil pastels. Each class gets a different color (I have 7 groups of 3rd graders for ex.) and the rule is that none of the paper color can show through the final artwork. This results in thick, rich color blends. Hope this helps...
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You cannot put oil paints of any kind over oil pastels, but you can put oil pastels over oil paints. The reason is that oil pastels are generally made with a non-drying mineral oil. There will never be a dry surface for the oil paints to adhere to, since oil pastels never dry.
The only fixative for oil pastels I have experimented with is Sennelier D'Artigny Pastel Fixative. It makes oil pastel paintings completely dry to the touch and provides protection against dust and smudging.