Hello Lindsay, I'm not in the market for a new product yet, still on the hunt for artist quality watercolor, that I can afford. But as always I always learn something from your videos. I really appreciated the information regarding the differences between the oil sticks and the oil pastels, I never would have known this except for your teachings. This was nice. Thank you. Take care and God bless you and yours. Sincerely Becky B from Arkansas
Thank you for reviving my interest in my oil pastels. They are 40 years old and still good. I will watch this again also. My favorite bird is the Cardinal. ❤😊
I’d love tutorials on using these. Ever since taking a half-day oils class on vacation a while ago, been interested in oils, but they seem so overwhelming (the space needed as they take ages to dry, the huge amounts of solvents and how to pour off the clean stuff while making space for the smelly jar of sediment that eventually will require special disposal….ugh). I settled for oil pastels thinking maybe they’d deliver the experience I was hoping for, and in lots of ways they do -but hate how they never dry, I hate the waxiness and limitations. I was thinking about Golden’s slow-drying acrylics as an oil-like experience, but I’m still investigating that. Knowing more about oil sticks (and maybe more about the Golden open acrylics!!) would be so helpful! Seeing you work with and explain the pros and cons of a new media is incredibly helpful for figuring out what to buy. Unless a huge sale tempts my “want monster,” I will watch your videos to gather data about what might be a good choice for me, and then buy a small amount of a new media before going all in.
Thanks for the feedback! I'm always looking for new ideas. I think you might like water mixable oils. They are legit oils but clean up with water. No solvents needed. I like lukas Berlin but many brands have a watersoluble line. I did not like winsor & newton's version tho. It will stay wet fir days like regular oil paint. I also like golden open, they are my favorite acrylic paint. They give you about an hour of working time before they start tack up and you have to let it dry. Oil Sticks are oil paint in a stick form and you will need solvents to clean up or thin the paint but Jerry artarama just launched a watersoluble oil stick that I will be reviewing soon so that's a solvent free option.
Lindsay, this was a great presentation. I recently gave a beautiful full set of oil paint sticks to my niece, as I just did not know how to utilize them to their potential! Ugh! But I did take advantage of Amazon’s deal,thanks to you, on the Caran d’ache oil pastels. When they came I tested them and they are so intriguing, beautiful color… can hardly wait for your new classes, on any kind of stick medium!! By the way, I am taking your colored pencil class, if I want to communicate to you about anything in the class what is the best way? I’ve had the class for a while and I don’t know if too much time has passed to ask questions about it. I also took your Caran d’ache Neocolor ll class, that was fun and very informative. Looking forward to more fun!!!
@@thefrugalcrafter I totally forgot that water-mixable oils even existed! Those are another exciting possibility! And now there's a water soluble oil stick? It's like the art supply companies KNOW all of us have little "want monsters" in our pockets, and they're inventing new things just to tempt us, lol. Thank you so much for all your content. I never thought of myself as an artist -- as a kid it was clear I had no innate talent, so I just forgot about the whole idea. Then one day, TH-cam suggested one of your videos and you were so encouraging that I went and got half a dozen watercolor pencils and started to play. You're really talented, which normally would be intimidating to me, but you're such a good teacher that you somehow give people permission to stop worrying and just _try_. It's opened up a whole new world of joy to me. (I love your paid classes too!!)
Yes, please--more tutorials using oil pastels, oil sticks, and even oil paints! That's something we never touched in my art classes in high school, so I've never really used them. I purchased a set of the Paul Rubens oil pastels and a Sennelier oil stick, and someone gave me some older oil paints they didn't want anymore.
Very interesting. I just bought the full set of Caran D’ache Oil Pastels after seeing your alert about Amazon Prime Day. This is a whole new world! I appreciate this content.
That was fun! I'm curious about your homemade oil sticks and how they turned out. Pure curiosity, Lindsay, I probably won't make any, but I loved your description of making them!!! If I got into using oil sticks, I know that I would wonder how they were made. I love your curiosity and your many diy experiments!!! Thanks for sharing your many experimental creative adventures!! ❤
My first set was Haiya . They smelled weird. I bought them on Temu. I now have Sennelier. I like them better. They are smooth and soft. I find them on a whole higher level!
Interesting, I just picked up the pigment sticks from R&F, they are pretty awesome, though still trying to figure out how to work with them. They have a luscious consistency, it's like a lipstick that one can paint with. You can also blend colours on or off the canvas or surface. So much fun to play with. Multi media, here I come!
I always love how you put things together that I would never think to put together. I like the idea of using oil pastels and oil bars together especially since the oil pastels are so much cheaper, to use in combination would be much for affordable. But since oil pastels don't dry, would it not cause problems if it's on the bottom layer when the top layers start drying? or vice versa if they are on the top layer and the bottom layers are drying without the top layer doing so? Cracking or uneven drying of the mediums that do dry or anything of that nature?
Do you mean if you layer oil pastels and oil paint/sticks or do you mean making oil sticks with oil pastels? It depends on the amount of oil pastels and how well you have mixed it in with the oil rick/paint/drying oil. You wouldn't want to do a thick layer of oil pastel and then go over it with a thick later of paint but if you sketched thinly and dissolved it with solvent and added paint you would be fine.
i would love more oil stick tutorials. One quick question, Oil pastels you can use in a sketchbook straight on paper, but then you need to put something like Dorland's wax over to keep it from smearing. Oil sticks would not need the wax, because they won't smear once dry, But I would need to put gesso on the paper before I use the oil sticks in a sketchbook. Is that all correct?
Yes, correct. Use gesso so it won't seep through the page. Just like you would if you were using oil paint. If you're using them on top of acrylic that you've painted, then it would be okay without the gesso. 😊
Sorry if this posts twice, but I don’t see my reply/question. @thefrugalcrafter what is the name of a water based sealer that could be used in a sketchbook on oil pastels? I don’t like using spray fixatives.
@rahimirahimi8560 - Look up Lindsay's video "Will it Varnish", it's about a year ago. She varnished an oil pastel that she did on a wood panel that she sealed first. I just watched it yesterday and it has a lot of good info and tips that I think will help answer your questions (at least some of them). Best of luck to you!
I would love to see more tutorials on both of these - I’ve been wondering what the difference was between them and whether they were interchangeable, and you’ve answered that question. Thank you! … and now I am wondering whether ordinary crayons are like the acrylic paint equivalent. Watercolour paint has water soluble crayons and pencils, oil paint has oil sticks and pastels, is there an equivalent stick/pastel/crayon/pencil for acrylic paint??? …maybe it is just acrylic markers???
@@thefrugalcrafter tempera? I’m not even sure what tempera sticks are 🤣🤣🤣 … I have vague ideas involving eggs combined with pigments in my head for tempera paint but I don’t think I have ever actually come across real tempera paint … not to mention that I really have zero idea about how they relate to acrylics. Actually, that is something that I have always found a bit confusing - tempera seems to be referred to as the same thing as ultra cheap kids acrylics (or “poster paint”), but I don’t see how that can really be the case if tempera is paint that uses an egg-based binder. Maybe it is just another example of my science-based leanings and need to understand things…
Hi, Lindsay. Thanks for delving into the differences between the two and how to use them! Can you tell me if the art or swatches you made with the Paul Ruben oil sticks (the big ones) dried? Most of the comments on Amazon say that they are not oil pastels and are oil sticks. I thought you said something (or questioned) along the same lines when you made your video on them. I will test them myself but would like to know others’ experiences as well.
I ❤ my oil sticks and yes are pricey but worth it. They do last a really long time. I have 2 sets of Richardson and a smaller set of R and F. I did buy a few years ago the Sennelier trial set. I want to get a big set of assorted Sennelier! Thanks ❤
@@thefrugalcrafter I tried to find a video I saw the demo of them but couldn't. I think this is Holbein Aqua Oils but cannot be sure. The ones I saw were oils which were flowing wet-in-wet very much like watercolours did.
Hugely helpful video! Thank you ❤ I feel like this is letting me wrap my brain around oil sticks....... but oil pastels still seem like voodoo to me 😂 I generally avoid oils because I identify as a Hot Mess Express and the long (or never) dry/cure time stresses me out. But I love learning about these!
Hullo Lindsay, thanks for sharing this excellent video with us! I am curious about how your creative experiment of making your own oil paint sticks! I have used these years ago, I was attracted to the ease of use and my first attempt was good, but I started having breathing problems and I was told to eliminate the toxic fumes from my home. I was told that I was “allergic” to oil paints. This was incorrect, I am still sensitive to petroleum based fumes. You get these from turpentine and even OMS! Odorless Mineral Spirits are NOT completely fume free! The development of OMS is a reduction of fumes, it is impossible to eliminate the fumes from petroleum products! I have even had troubles with the outgassing of new carpets! Finding out the “ingredients” in products we buy is so important to those people who are or have allergies or sensitivities! I have enjoyed limited success with water soluble oil paints. I just have to eliminate the petroleum products from my oil paint creations! It can be done but beware of claims of odorless spirits, they simply don’t exist. Most people don’t smell the toxins, but they are there! I wonder if they have the water soluble oil paints in the sticks? I have not ever seen any, have you? Thank you for sharing your time and expertise with us. You are truly inspirational and so generous with your knowledge, you are truly amazing!
Yes, jerrys artatams just launched watersoluble oil paint sticks, and so has Phoenix who private lables a lot of products for other companies. I think phoenix is making the soho ones for jerrys. They have open stock and I plan to review them.
@@thefrugalcrafter Hullo Lindsay, I have seen a few of the regular oil sticks sets, and one the Richeson Shiva Oilstik student sets are also for sale but I can see no difference! Even the prices are similar! I hope you can bring some intelligent insight to these oil stick paints. Thanks for keeping your eyes open to new and interesting products!
Hi Lindsay, Is it possible to use oil sticks in some mixed media works, i got some wn oil bars but i do not have any medias for oil ( I only have canvas paper (?) for acryls). What is the basic minimum that is needed? gesso and linseed oil? is it possible to use acrylics on top of oil?
I'm really interested in trying oil sticks.... I see you can get a sennelier oil stick called transparent medium. If you used this with regular oil pastels would they behave a little more like oil sticks/would they dry...? 🤔 Im not really interested in working with spirits etc
@@thefrugalcrafter They’re wonderful used over texture plates or if you outline designs with masking tape, scribble a patch on the tape and use a toothbrush to spread to the fabric. Usually cannot see anything till you remove the tape, but the color is there, beautifully sheer and in the shape you want. Can also do that with stencils.
I have read about walnut oil as a brush cleaner - are you using the ne M Graham makes? How do you give the fume situation, using those two products with the oil sticks?
Any oil pastel or oil stick tutorials! Love them.
Coming soon!
Clicked as fast as I could 😅 I would love watching a compilation of old art materials, I like the nostalgic feeling ❤
That is a great idea for a video! I'll try to make it happen.
Not a lot of oil stick/bar videos/tutorials around, so i would definitely love to see more videos on this fun medium!❤
More to come!
Hello Lindsay, I'm not in the market for a new product yet, still on the hunt for artist quality watercolor, that I can afford. But as always I always learn something from your videos. I really appreciated the information regarding the differences between the oil sticks and the oil pastels, I never would have known this except for your teachings. This was nice. Thank you. Take care and God bless you and yours. Sincerely Becky B from Arkansas
Thanks Becky, I'm glad you found it helpful!
Thank you for reviving my interest in my oil pastels. They are 40 years old and still good. I will watch this again also. My favorite bird is the Cardinal. ❤😊
That’s amazing that they’ve lasted so long!
I’d love tutorials on using these. Ever since taking a half-day oils class on vacation a while ago, been interested in oils, but they seem so overwhelming (the space needed as they take ages to dry, the huge amounts of solvents and how to pour off the clean stuff while making space for the smelly jar of sediment that eventually will require special disposal….ugh).
I settled for oil pastels thinking maybe they’d deliver the experience I was hoping for, and in lots of ways they do -but hate how they never dry, I hate the waxiness and limitations. I was thinking about Golden’s slow-drying acrylics as an oil-like experience, but I’m still investigating that.
Knowing more about oil sticks (and maybe more about the Golden open acrylics!!) would be so helpful!
Seeing you work with and explain the pros and cons of a new media is incredibly helpful for figuring out what to buy. Unless a huge sale tempts my “want monster,” I will watch your videos to gather data about what might be a good choice for me, and then buy a small amount of a new media before going all in.
Thanks for the feedback! I'm always looking for new ideas. I think you might like water mixable oils. They are legit oils but clean up with water. No solvents needed. I like lukas Berlin but many brands have a watersoluble line. I did not like winsor & newton's version tho. It will stay wet fir days like regular oil paint. I also like golden open, they are my favorite acrylic paint. They give you about an hour of working time before they start tack up and you have to let it dry.
Oil Sticks are oil paint in a stick form and you will need solvents to clean up or thin the paint but Jerry artarama just launched a watersoluble oil stick that I will be reviewing soon so that's a solvent free option.
Lindsay, this was a great presentation. I recently gave a beautiful full set of oil paint sticks to my niece, as I just did not know how to utilize them to their potential! Ugh!
But I did take advantage of Amazon’s deal,thanks to you, on the Caran d’ache oil pastels. When they came I tested them and they are so intriguing, beautiful color… can hardly wait for your new classes, on any kind of stick medium!!
By the way, I am taking your colored pencil class, if I want to communicate to you about anything in the class what is the best way? I’ve had the class for a while and I don’t know if too much time has passed to ask questions about it.
I also took your Caran d’ache Neocolor ll class, that was fun and very informative.
Looking forward to more fun!!!
@@thefrugalcrafter I totally forgot that water-mixable oils even existed! Those are another exciting possibility! And now there's a water soluble oil stick? It's like the art supply companies KNOW all of us have little "want monsters" in our pockets, and they're inventing new things just to tempt us, lol.
Thank you so much for all your content. I never thought of myself as an artist -- as a kid it was clear I had no innate talent, so I just forgot about the whole idea. Then one day, TH-cam suggested one of your videos and you were so encouraging that I went and got half a dozen watercolor pencils and started to play.
You're really talented, which normally would be intimidating to me, but you're such a good teacher that you somehow give people permission to stop worrying and just _try_. It's opened up a whole new world of joy to me. (I love your paid classes too!!)
Yay, oil sticks!! More, more, more
You got it!
Thank you for this explanation! Yes, I would love to see more tutorials using oil sticks.
You got it!
Yes, please--more tutorials using oil pastels, oil sticks, and even oil paints! That's something we never touched in my art classes in high school, so I've never really used them. I purchased a set of the Paul Rubens oil pastels and a Sennelier oil stick, and someone gave me some older oil paints they didn't want anymore.
I love oil sticks and will definitely do more tutorials!
Great video Lindsay, I would love to the process of how you made your own oil sticks. :)
Coming soon!
Very interesting. I just bought the full set of Caran D’ache Oil Pastels after seeing your alert about Amazon Prime Day. This is a whole new world! I appreciate this content.
I’m so glad you snagged a deal!
I love oil sticks! 💕 thanks Lindsay! I’d love to see more videos sketching and painting with them.
You're welcome! I'm working on it!
Love this and would love to see more videos on using oil sticks.
You're welcome! I'm planning to do more in the future!
Thank you for explaining the difference. I was wanting to check them out. Saw them at Blick’s.
You are welcome! They are great to experiment with.
Lovely video, as ever. I'd love to see more oil based products being explored, especially together. Thanks so much for all that you do.🙂
Thank you! Will do!
I would love to see more videos on oil sticks and oil pastels! Thank you.
You got it!
I would love some more tutorials. Before I invest!! Thank you💕💕
I’ll have to try to get some more tutorials filmed soon!
This looks like so much fun!
That was fun! I'm curious about your homemade oil sticks and how they turned out. Pure curiosity, Lindsay, I probably won't make any, but I loved your description of making them!!! If I got into using oil sticks, I know that I would wonder how they were made. I love your curiosity and your many diy experiments!!! Thanks for sharing your many experimental creative adventures!! ❤
Thanks, I love experimenting!
Oil stick tutorial would be fun. Thanks Lindsay 🎉 on my wish list. Ill bet they would be great for pet portraits?
You’re going to love oil sticks for pet portraits!
My first set was Haiya . They smelled weird. I bought them on Temu. I now have Sennelier. I like them better. They are smooth and soft. I find them on a whole higher level!
That’s so interesting to hear about your experience with the different brands! I have both and neither had a smell.
Interesting, I just picked up the pigment sticks from R&F, they are pretty awesome, though still trying to figure out how to work with them.
They have a luscious consistency, it's like a lipstick that one can paint with. You can also blend colours on or off the canvas or surface. So much fun to play with. Multi media, here I come!
Sounds like you're having a blast with them!
love the r and f oil sticks
I'll have to try them someday!
Lovely video. Thanks for sharing ❤
You’re very welcome!
Oil sticks tips tyvm for doing this video very helpful your amazing Lindsay
You're so welcome!
Oily goodness❤
They’re so much fun to use!
I always love how you put things together that I would never think to put together. I like the idea of using oil pastels and oil bars together especially since the oil pastels are so much cheaper, to use in combination would be much for affordable. But since oil pastels don't dry, would it not cause problems if it's on the bottom layer when the top layers start drying? or vice versa if they are on the top layer and the bottom layers are drying without the top layer doing so? Cracking or uneven drying of the mediums that do dry or anything of that nature?
Do you mean if you layer oil pastels and oil paint/sticks or do you mean making oil sticks with oil pastels? It depends on the amount of oil pastels and how well you have mixed it in with the oil rick/paint/drying oil. You wouldn't want to do a thick layer of oil pastel and then go over it with a thick later of paint but if you sketched thinly and dissolved it with solvent and added paint you would be fine.
@@thefrugalcrafter I meant layer oil pastels and oil bars/sticks (or paint) over each other in the same painting.
i would love more oil stick tutorials. One quick question, Oil pastels you can use in a sketchbook straight on paper, but then you need to put something like Dorland's wax over to keep it from smearing. Oil sticks would not need the wax, because they won't smear once dry, But I would need to put gesso on the paper before I use the oil sticks in a sketchbook. Is that all correct?
Yes, correct. Use gesso so it won't seep through the page. Just like you would if you were using oil paint. If you're using them on top of acrylic that you've painted, then it would be okay without the gesso. 😊
Not Dorlands, that would dissolve the oil pastels. You can use oil pastel fixative or a waterbased sealer.
Sorry if this posts twice, but I don’t see my reply/question. @thefrugalcrafter what is the name of a water based sealer that could be used in a sketchbook on oil pastels? I don’t like using spray fixatives.
@rahimirahimi8560 - Look up Lindsay's video "Will it Varnish", it's about a year ago. She varnished an oil pastel that she did on a wood panel that she sealed first. I just watched it yesterday and it has a lot of good info and tips that I think will help answer your questions (at least some of them). Best of luck to you!
I would love to see more tutorials on both of these - I’ve been wondering what the difference was between them and whether they were interchangeable, and you’ve answered that question. Thank you! … and now I am wondering whether ordinary crayons are like the acrylic paint equivalent. Watercolour paint has water soluble crayons and pencils, oil paint has oil sticks and pastels, is there an equivalent stick/pastel/crayon/pencil for acrylic paint??? …maybe it is just acrylic markers???
That's a great question! Acrylic markers would probably be your best bet or tempra sticks.
@@thefrugalcrafter tempera? I’m not even sure what tempera sticks are 🤣🤣🤣 … I have vague ideas involving eggs combined with pigments in my head for tempera paint but I don’t think I have ever actually come across real tempera paint … not to mention that I really have zero idea about how they relate to acrylics. Actually, that is something that I have always found a bit confusing - tempera seems to be referred to as the same thing as ultra cheap kids acrylics (or “poster paint”), but I don’t see how that can really be the case if tempera is paint that uses an egg-based binder. Maybe it is just another example of my science-based leanings and need to understand things…
Hi, Lindsay. Thanks for delving into the differences between the two and how to use them! Can you tell me if the art or swatches you made with the Paul Ruben oil sticks (the big ones) dried? Most of the comments on Amazon say that they are not oil pastels and are oil sticks. I thought you said something (or questioned) along the same lines when you made your video on them. I will test them myself but would like to know others’ experiences as well.
No, they are 100% oil pastels. I wish they were oil sticks tho!
I ❤ my oil sticks and yes are pricey but worth it. They do last a really long time. I have 2 sets of Richardson and a smaller set of R and F. I did buy a few years ago the Sennelier trial set. I want to get a big set of assorted Sennelier! Thanks ❤
How to the Shiva/ Jack Richardson compare to sennelier? They seem to be the best value.
@@thefrugalcrafter Sennelier are softer than Richardson but the Shiva last longer due to being a bit harder.
Looking at this I am wondering if you had a chance to try new Holbein water-based oil paints that flow like watercolours?
I'm not familiar with those, but that sounds interesting!
@@thefrugalcrafter I tried to find a video I saw the demo of them but couldn't. I think this is Holbein Aqua Oils but cannot be sure. The ones I saw were oils which were flowing wet-in-wet very much like watercolours did.
Hugely helpful video! Thank you ❤
I feel like this is letting me wrap my brain around oil sticks....... but oil pastels still seem like voodoo to me 😂
I generally avoid oils because I identify as a Hot Mess Express and the long (or never) dry/cure time stresses me out. But I love learning about these!
You are welcome! I’m glad it’s helping to make sense of the oil sticks!
Hullo Lindsay, thanks for sharing this excellent video with us! I am curious about how your creative experiment of making your own oil paint sticks! I have used these years ago, I was attracted to the ease of use and my first attempt was good, but I started having breathing problems and I was told to eliminate the toxic fumes from my home. I was told that I was “allergic” to oil paints. This was incorrect, I am still sensitive to petroleum based fumes. You get these from turpentine and even OMS! Odorless Mineral Spirits are NOT completely fume free! The development of OMS is a reduction of fumes, it is impossible to eliminate the fumes from petroleum products! I have even had troubles with the outgassing of new carpets! Finding out the “ingredients” in products we buy is so important to those people who are or have allergies or sensitivities! I have enjoyed limited success with water soluble oil paints. I just have to eliminate the petroleum products from my oil paint creations! It can be done but beware of claims of odorless spirits, they simply don’t exist. Most people don’t smell the toxins, but they are there! I wonder if they have the water soluble oil paints in the sticks? I have not ever seen any, have you? Thank you for sharing your time and expertise with us. You are truly inspirational and so generous with your knowledge, you are truly amazing!
Yes, jerrys artatams just launched watersoluble oil paint sticks, and so has Phoenix who private lables a lot of products for other companies. I think phoenix is making the soho ones for jerrys. They have open stock and I plan to review them.
@@thefrugalcrafter Hullo Lindsay, I have seen a few of the regular oil sticks sets, and one the Richeson Shiva Oilstik student sets are also for sale but I can see no difference! Even the prices are similar! I hope you can bring some intelligent insight to these oil stick paints. Thanks for keeping your eyes open to new and interesting products!
Hi just saw Jerry arterama has water mixable oil sticks, can you do a review of them please? I truly value your opinion. Thank you
Will do
Hi Lindsay, Is it possible to use oil sticks in some mixed media works, i got some wn oil bars but i do not have any medias for oil ( I only have canvas paper (?) for acryls). What is the basic minimum that is needed? gesso and linseed oil? is it possible to use acrylics on top of oil?
You need a gesso primed paper or canvas. You can use oil sticks over acrylic as a last layer
Oil stick tutorials please! ❤
I have some ideas for those!
Do you have a video on how to make your own oil sticks?
Not yet, coming soon!
I'm really interested in trying oil sticks.... I see you can get a sennelier oil stick called transparent medium. If you used this with regular oil pastels would they behave a little more like oil sticks/would they dry...? 🤔 Im not really interested in working with spirits etc
Good question, I'll have to try my oilbar blender and see if that works.
I’ve used the Sennelier Oil Sticks on fabric for many years. Never tried them on paper.
That’s really interesting to hear!
@@thefrugalcrafter They’re wonderful used over texture plates or if you outline designs with masking tape, scribble a patch on the tape and use a toothbrush to spread to the fabric. Usually cannot see anything till you remove the tape, but the color is there, beautifully sheer and in the shape you want. Can also do that with stencils.
Oil paint in a stick! 😮❤
I use Gamsol and walnut oil.
I have read about walnut oil as a brush cleaner - are you using the ne M Graham makes?
How do you give the fume situation, using those two products with the oil sticks?
Are these less toxic than using oil paint in tubes?
No, they are still oil paint. The paint isn't the toxic part, it's the solvents.
I keep hoping that some of the discount art supplies companies will get into oil sticks as it would be less intimidating to try out.
I know, right?!
Under-painting & sketching
Love your cute bird. But no, no, no, not another medium. No. A year from now I'll be out here looking for oil stick videos, ha-ha.
You might just need to add it to your list! 😂
Oil paint in a stick! 😮❤