OIL PASTELS

Technique
Oil pastels are actually a pretty old type of art material. They have a wide variety of uses, and can be used in a wide variety of ways. On the following slides well look at a few different oil pastel tecniques.

Stencil Technique

The pastel is used for the backdrops , it is covered with an ink wash, watercolour or diluted acrylic. The pastel repels the shade and shows through.

Blending
Technique based on the blending of colours using the finger, stump or mineral spirits/turpentine/turpenoid.

Impasto
Thick and dense lines that bring out the texture and the intensity of the colour of the pastel. The paper is quickly

saturated.

Hatching and Cross-Hatching

It underlines the relief and enables to obtain special effects of hues, colours and textures.

Parallel Brush Strokes

Parallel brush strokes with the tip of the pastel.

Fragmented Colors
Slight brush strokes overlaps (of various colours).

Scratching
This technique enables to reduce the excess of paint on a surface, to uncover previous colour layers or the paper background. An engraving point or a painting knife may be used, or a scratchboard, or an acrylic background covered with pastel pasting.