The real way of blending colors using oil pastel is not smudging using your fingers or tissues. You must put some force when you're using oil pastels, starting from darkest to lightest, and then mix them in circular motion. The result will be more colorful and vibrant. :)
Yep, got my daughter some $4 ones...after trying those, I'm surprised the $3 ones in the video blended at all. Couldn't layer colours, had to push as hard or harder than crayons to get any colour at all, and so very unpigmented and transparent - like those cheap crayons (not the crayola) that kids get in restaurants.
I got some for £4 (roughly $5) and they were hard to blend, it started coming off, like when I tried to blend it started to one off the paper and I could drag my nail across it and I old bring the actual stuff off no matter how many layers...
Weird_Girl ^_^ May I recommend cray pas? I have a small pack of them and they work well (I think? I don’t know much about pastels, but they’re pretty easy to blend and they’re vibrant.). They’re cheap too
I really appreciate this simple intro to pastels! A lot of times people over complicate things and I just wanted to see the basics! Thank you! Your drawings look great! I especially like the whale with the balloon!animals holding balloons 💗😄💗 I look forward to watching more of your videos!
I’m really amazed on the results of the artwork when utilizing oil pastels. I have observed that oil pastels have a creamy quality when applied to a surface, somehow looking like a combination of crayons and lipsticks. The result, specifically the blending of the colors is pleasant to the eyes. Oil pastel art is usually more on the creative blending, smudging, and rubbing of colors based on one’s taste. Moreover, the pastel paper which is made for oil pastels really helps in grabbing or fully attaining the peak color performance of the oil pastels.
Those oil pastels that you said were like $3 at Michaels actually did a really good job!! Both of those were gorgeous pieces of art and I look forward to watching more videos!
Here's another video to watch: th-cam.com/video/OYEUqZJzNdc/w-d-xo.html Action Adventure Sketch featuring Tarzan! Also see on TH-cam: "Triumphant Barbarian!" by H R Gerrard.
My girlfriend got me a 122 piece art kit for my birthday and it came with pastels ive never done them before but im pretty excited to start learning and using them. Thanks for this video!
April Marie hi!! True..i did a pastel artwork last monday. In the box,its said that you should use turpentine or mineral spirits to blend them. I dont have any of them so i used baby oil instead. It did worked. Not that much blendability i was expecting but it worked and i loved it!! Now my baby oil has 2 purposes now-for my body & my pastel artworks!!!
Baby oil does dry....on dry surfaces. It also does dry with oil paints, as I am just finding out. Not many oil pastel users know to use paint thinners to blend with brushes.
omg thank you so much!!! i have been wanting to draw with oil pastels for awhile, keep getting inspired to do so but it seemed like i was doing something wrong or was missing something. but this helps and made me feel loads better. simply oil pastels aren't the greatest but they'll help to practice.
You're really adept at teaching. Thanks! These oil pastels are so much more fun for me, for my grandkids than finger paints and tempura paints that spill. :) AWESOME!
Goodness, my art teacher required us to have oil pastels but taught us nothing about them. So I’ve been using them very wrong it seems. Thank you for this video!
Thanks. I'm a new (old?) artist. I bought a few art supplies...I haven't tried the oil pastels yet. They seem scary. I don't think my soft pastels are very good, they arent very blendable. Or maybe I'm not using enough pigment.
Can you mix oil pastels and watercolor? Cause the whale drawing looks so pretty but I think it would be even more amazing if you used watercolor to create a background looking like the sea
you cant really mix oil pastel and watercolor as they separate on the paper but you could definitely make a background with watercolor and it would be great because the background wont bleed into the main drawing
I am an oil pastel artist. I use my fingers. I also melt my colors together on my wood stove. I'm using oil pastels on canvas. I use all white in the canvas to start like gesso. Unfortunately I can't share an image here.
I recently bought a pack few years ago from a random art brand. Cause I wanted to try at art college and I never ended up using them. I have a new use for them now that I’m tempted to test out, I feel guilty not using them. Thanks for this video helped a lot! 😊
Very nice, I have both oil and dry, can you combine them in a painting. Also, I cannot tolerate fumes from turpentine so switched to acrylic paints. Now I am going to try using dry pastels over the acrylic underpainting to make some things pop.
If you dont mind burning through your white pastels you can use the white to blend, thats what ive always done. Work like a dream and less exhausting than blending with your finger
You can use ehort haired flat bristle brushes dipped in solvent. You can use Blending Stumps. You can use your fingers. Want to see it in action? Here's another video to watch: th-cam.com/video/OYEUqZJzNdc/w-d-xo.html Action Adventure Sketch featuring Tarzan!
Hmm. I could never blend them that way. I used the reader end of a regular school writing pencil. Then someone told me I needed to use oil to blend and that was just to much for me.
I've heard that fixative don't work much for pastels or maybe oil pastels?? Is this true... I'm new to oil pastels and i want to seal and preserve my art for potentially a customer when I'm becoming a artist
THANK YOU! i acctually needed to learn even slightly what i needed to do with oil pastels and you were the first one i saw who actually explained what needed to be done. were not even 3 min in to my first video im seeing of you and i have immediatly subscribed. again THANK YOU!
Could I assume that watercolor paper would work? This looks like a less messy finger painting for kids idea. Mine tend to spill a lot, but miss the table cloth lol.
Are you using plain paper? I use the color on the drawing paper and I can't use my hands to paint it like a dry pastel, it's not like you do it, why is that? Is it due to the type of paper?
I tried to make gradation and blend it with tissue, but it end up looks transparant. And when i used it with a lot pressure it will be end up cannot be blended at all....(maybe because i use the cheap one)
Don't use the cheapest materials you can get! Get the best materials you can afford! This will improve your artworks dramatically! Here's another video to watch: th-cam.com/video/OYEUqZJzNdc/w-d-xo.html Action Adventure Sketch featuring Tarzan!
I was taught in art class not to blend oil pastels? Was I told wrong? Apparently you can blend dry pastels but you're supposed to layer or something with oil pastels, idk it's been a while. Does anyone know for sure cuz now I'm just confused?
ecem ali use fixative spray when you have completed your piece. Other tip use a dry cloth or folded paper towel when working on your piece over the areas you are not working on at the moment so it does not smudge.
I literally just found a 25-pack of Cray Pas “artist quality” (I have no experience with the brand, so I’m a little skeptical of the quality) oil pastels in my parent’s basement (my mother used to be an artist), so I want to see how to use them. Edit: so I searched online, and this exact pack is about $20, so not great, but not awful, either.
Thanks. Simple and clear video on how to use oil pastels. Got a $50 dollar set for $12...so have to learn. #artsupplyjunkie #buyingsuppliesistherealhobby #becreative
No. You only need to use a fixer spray for dry pastels. The dry pastel powder will fall of the paper if you don’t use a fixer spray, but the oil pastels stay on the paper very well 😊
The real way of blending colors using oil pastel is not smudging using your fingers or tissues. You must put some force when you're using oil pastels, starting from darkest to lightest, and then mix them in circular motion. The result will be more colorful and vibrant. :)
Can use a q tip too ... apparently 🙃
thanks. I tried your tip and it got me a good result
@@carolinebarrett4736 yes I got results with that too
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@@carolinebarrett4736 if you have one using a blending stump is the best option
I love oil pastels I use to hate them. But after winning some I decided to give them another try and I fell in love
Nope XD the first oil pastels I ever bought: $2 lol they did not blend at all, not even a little bit. I was convinced they were crayons in disguise
Weird_Girl ^_^ haha, kinda related but my teacher called my oil pastels crayons when they say OIL PASTEL on them
Yep, got my daughter some $4 ones...after trying those, I'm surprised the $3 ones in the video blended at all. Couldn't layer colours, had to push as hard or harder than crayons to get any colour at all, and so very unpigmented and transparent - like those cheap crayons (not the crayola) that kids get in restaurants.
I got some for £4 (roughly $5) and they were hard to blend, it started coming off, like when I tried to blend it started to one off the paper and I could drag my nail across it and I old bring the actual stuff off no matter how many layers...
Weird_Girl ^_^ May I recommend cray pas? I have a small pack of them and they work well (I think? I don’t know much about pastels, but they’re pretty easy to blend and they’re vibrant.). They’re cheap too
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I really appreciate this simple intro to pastels! A lot of times people over complicate things and I just wanted to see the basics! Thank you! Your drawings look great! I especially like the whale with the balloon!animals holding balloons 💗😄💗 I look forward to watching more of your videos!
I’m really amazed on the results of the artwork when utilizing oil pastels. I have observed that oil pastels have a creamy quality when applied to a surface, somehow looking like a combination of crayons and lipsticks. The result, specifically the blending of the colors is pleasant to the eyes. Oil pastel art is usually more on the creative blending, smudging, and rubbing of colors based on one’s taste. Moreover, the pastel paper which is made for oil pastels really helps in grabbing or fully attaining the peak color performance of the oil pastels.
Those oil pastels that you said were like $3 at Michaels actually did a really good job!! Both of those were gorgeous pieces of art and I look forward to watching more videos!
Here's another video to watch: th-cam.com/video/OYEUqZJzNdc/w-d-xo.html
Action Adventure Sketch featuring Tarzan!
Also see on TH-cam: "Triumphant Barbarian!" by H R Gerrard.
Love this because you're not snooty about art. Interesting to hear you talk about boredom in this context. A quick mind needs a quick hand!
My girlfriend got me a 122 piece art kit for my birthday and it came with pastels ive never done them before but im pretty excited to start learning and using them. Thanks for this video!
Just thought I'd add that baby oil and of course odorless mineral spirits with a brush, is used to blend oil pastels!
April Marie hi!! True..i did a pastel artwork last monday. In the box,its said that you should use turpentine or mineral spirits to blend them. I dont have any of them so i used baby oil instead. It did worked. Not that much blendability i was expecting but it worked and i loved it!! Now my baby oil has 2 purposes now-for my body & my pastel artworks!!!
Baby oil doesn't dry I thought. How are your pastels holding up?
@@omnesilere oil pastels never completely dry either. It's why they require a fixitive to not smudge.
Baby oil does dry....on dry surfaces. It also does dry with oil paints, as I am just finding out. Not many oil pastel users know to use paint thinners to blend with brushes.
@@RheaRobin does hairspray work as a fixative?
I love your technique, but what I liked the most are your explanations, really useful!
omg thank you so much!!! i have been wanting to draw with oil pastels for awhile, keep getting inspired to do so but it seemed like i was doing something wrong or was missing something. but this helps and made me feel loads better. simply oil pastels aren't the greatest but they'll help to practice.
I am all about what I feel and how I personally do things (as opposed to external standards) and I gotta say this mode of instruction rocks for me.
You're really adept at teaching. Thanks! These oil pastels are so much more fun for me, for my grandkids than finger paints and tempura paints that spill. :) AWESOME!
how have you not blown up yet!!!!!!
Oil Pastel - Every hands enemy.
You can use tissue...
You can use the color white...
True. Special in summer. They look really good but hard to manage. (At least for me.)
You really shouldn't use you fingers to blend oil pastels
Wish I could get a closer look at your background painting. It's really beautiful I love the colours...
Thanks for sharing.
My grandma got me this art set with a lot of oil pastels and I couldn’t teach myself how to use them...So I went to TH-cam!
Wow..how sweet
Lol- I learn sooo much from TH-cam- would b lost without it really 😆
omg so I've been looking through videos trying to find a good tutorial on oil pastels then I find this which is very simple and easy to understand
This video was so helpful, I literally just got some and had no idea how to use them and now I do!
Your channel is awesome
Exactly he is so clear with telling us about techniques and helps me learn SOOOOOOO much!
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Goodness, my art teacher required us to have oil pastels but taught us nothing about them. So I’ve been using them very wrong it seems. Thank you for this video!
Would you be able to use them on a canvas?
Thanks. I'm a new (old?) artist. I bought a few art supplies...I haven't tried the oil pastels yet. They seem scary. I don't think my soft pastels are very good, they arent very blendable. Or maybe I'm not using enough pigment.
Sennelier are the only oil pastels I would use.
Trying a new medium is like. Dungeon. You explore, they are scary but an adventure
I read your name as seungri 🤦🏾♀️
Can you mix oil pastels and watercolor? Cause the whale drawing looks so pretty but I think it would be even more amazing if you used watercolor to create a background looking like the sea
you cant really mix oil pastel and watercolor as they separate on the paper but you could definitely make a background with watercolor and it would be great because the background wont bleed into the main drawing
I am an oil pastel artist. I use my fingers. I also melt my colors together on my wood stove. I'm using oil pastels on canvas. I use all white in the canvas to start like gesso. Unfortunately I can't share an image here.
Fun! Thanks for the tips. The pastels looked great on the Mi-Tientes paper!
I recently bought a pack few years ago from a random art brand. Cause I wanted to try at art college and I never ended up using them. I have a new use for them now that I’m tempted to test out, I feel guilty not using them. Thanks for this video helped a lot! 😊
Who knew Matt mcgorry is an artist
Very nice, I have both oil and dry, can you combine them in a painting. Also, I cannot tolerate fumes from turpentine so switched to acrylic paints. Now I am going to try using dry pastels over the acrylic underpainting to make some things pop.
If you dont mind burning through your white pastels you can use the white to blend, thats what ive always done. Work like a dream and less exhausting than blending with your finger
Now u r my teacher
Woww nice
I like it so much...i will applying in my drawings too. Thanks for teaching. A new subscriber here. I also doing this kind of art..
Just out of curiosity, can you blend the colors in with something like a piece of napkin or something along the lines of that?
the moon killed my dreams and my stars yes
@@mags_1977 thank you!!!
You can use ehort haired flat bristle brushes dipped in solvent. You can use Blending Stumps. You can use your fingers.
Want to see it in action?
Here's another video to watch: th-cam.com/video/OYEUqZJzNdc/w-d-xo.html
Action Adventure Sketch featuring Tarzan!
Hmm. I could never blend them that way. I used the reader end of a regular school writing pencil. Then someone told me I needed to use oil to blend and that was just to much for me.
Can I ask, how much pressure do you need to apply to blending techniques?
i tried it but not as beautiful as yours and you are so great...
Thanks for this great to watch. also ? is the paitning in the background one of yours? if so what medium did you use for it? Thanks Helen
Cool very helpful, wanna start using oil pastels to experiment out side of pencils.
You deserve million subscribers dude.
The oil pastels don't blend for me for some reason when I use my finger or anything at all.
You deserve so much more subscribers!!Your channel is awesome💕💕
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Thanks im just now going to try oil pastels...easy peasy👍
I usually use with acrylic paints and then use oil pastels on top for smaller details. Can one apply varnish over oil pastels?
Very simple mate, you got me motivated.
I've heard that fixative don't work much for pastels or maybe oil pastels?? Is this true... I'm new to oil pastels and i want to seal and preserve my art for potentially a customer when I'm becoming a artist
Thank you so much man.
I can color with pastels much more easily.
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THANK YOU! i acctually needed to learn even slightly what i needed to do with oil pastels and you were the first one i saw who actually explained what needed to be done. were not even 3 min in to my first video im seeing of you and i have immediatly subscribed. again THANK YOU!
Sir apne yeah colours oil pastels use kiya hae ya phir dry oil pastels used kiya hae sir please answer that question
I've been using Oil pastel wrong
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Could I assume that watercolor paper would work?
This looks like a less messy finger painting for kids idea. Mine tend to spill a lot, but miss the table cloth lol.
Thanks bro I've had oil pastels for awhile but didn't know how to use them lol
Do the oil pastels eventually rot the paper, or canvas, like oil paints woul a canvas without gesso.
Didn't they used to be called craypods? Was that a brand name or something? Did they change the name?
whats type of paper is best for this technique?
Wow I learn a lot on your vidio of tutorial Big thanks
Are you using plain paper? I use the color on the drawing paper and I can't use my hands to paint it like a dry pastel, it's not like you do it, why is that? Is it due to the type of paper?
Love from India 😊💟
love love love this vid, thank u so much
Beautiful and looks like fun!!
Super! Very helpful video for beginners.
Love oil pastels thx 😊
needed some guidance preciate you brother
huh. thank goodness i decided to look up tips on using pastels instead of just winging it. XD VERY useful stuff lol
I tried to make gradation and blend it with tissue, but it end up looks transparant. And when i used it with a lot pressure it will be end up cannot be blended at all....(maybe because i use the cheap one)
Don't use the cheapest materials you can get! Get the best materials you can afford! This will improve your artworks dramatically!
Here's another video to watch: th-cam.com/video/OYEUqZJzNdc/w-d-xo.html
Action Adventure Sketch featuring Tarzan!
Could u make a new vid about how to colour some coconut fruits
hah, i got my starter set of oil paints from michaels and the brand was artists loft
Hi. Can you use water to blend with these oil pastels?
Water and oil don’t mix
Is there any special paper for oil pastels?
Tq.... For your advise will try at home..
1$ pastels blend well for me here in the Philippines
Thanks very much your video very useful for all.
I was taught in art class not to blend oil pastels? Was I told wrong? Apparently you can blend dry pastels but you're supposed to layer or something with oil pastels, idk it's been a while. Does anyone know for sure cuz now I'm just confused?
Here's another video to watch: th-cam.com/video/OYEUqZJzNdc/w-d-xo.html
Action Adventure Sketch featuring Tarzan!
what are best quality oil pastals a s cost
I like the coloring process.. ^^
Do you have to spray oil pastel with a fixative like you do the dry pastel?
Sincerely Sapphire yes spray with a fixative spray once you complete your piece. Otherwise it can smudge on you.
Not required
Very cool method, thanks.
Thanks for the video.
this is sick, great video
Very useful. Thanks
I could never get on with oil pastels because they are greasy. Going to try again after this tutorial.
Here's another video to watch: th-cam.com/video/OYEUqZJzNdc/w-d-xo.html
Action Adventure Sketch featuring Tarzan!
I had been saying "pestails" wrong all this time
i used to say pay-stils earlier lmao
The white thing used to blend are called tortillons
Cool drawings
And what difference in if us soft pastal
hello, how do you set your oil pastels drawings? thanks
ecem ali use fixative spray when you have completed your piece. Other tip use a dry cloth or folded paper towel when working on your piece over the areas you are not working on at the moment so it does not smudge.
Haaah, oh my god how smooth is his skin and so rich and glowing i was astounded and i literally gasped loudly
I'm attempting to paint my laptop and I thought I'd use oil pastels and then seal with a varnish. Anyone have any experience sealing pastels?
That flower was cringey tbh, but that whale was beautiful haha. Keep up the videos man, very helpful!
But he is not teaching art, just showing us the technique of using oil pastels.
the flower was fineee
Thanks alot it's so so useful 😊👍
But are we sure that Lexi is not on Acid?
I literally just found a 25-pack of Cray Pas “artist quality” (I have no experience with the brand, so I’m a little skeptical of the quality) oil pastels in my parent’s basement (my mother used to be an artist), so I want to see how to use them.
Edit: so I searched online, and this exact pack is about $20, so not great, but not awful, either.
Thanks. Simple and clear video on how to use oil pastels. Got a $50 dollar set for $12...so have to learn. #artsupplyjunkie #buyingsuppliesistherealhobby #becreative
How I mix my pastel color . My pastel colors don't mix like yours
Here's another video to watch: th-cam.com/video/OYEUqZJzNdc/w-d-xo.html
Action Adventure Sketch featuring Tarzan!
I love your channel name.
Thanks for the tutorial
Do I require a fixer spay for oil pastel paintings?
No. You only need to use a fixer spray for dry pastels. The dry pastel powder will fall of the paper if you don’t use a fixer spray, but the oil pastels stay on the paper very well 😊
@@elainaelephant7269 thanks
I got that same exact brand
My black screws up it alllllllll I mean I start with an abstract shape and use black and annoys me it mixes in