If you are a starving artist like most of us, I found van gogh okay for student grade. They sell van gogh at dick blick. Just an added thought. I started my daughter years ago with those and some regular school pencils with an eraser on the end for blending. I gave her some canson paper and let her go. Canson is reasonably priced too. She loved it and had alot of exploration with them.
I know the list they give seems large and unfamiliar but as you explore you will find new ways to use them. Glad you want to try, they are a wonderful medium. They are my main medium. I started when I was around 7 years old and never stoped1. Di, welcome to the Oil Pastel forum. Mungyo are a student quality OP.
Some people have managed to do OK with student brands, but I would personally recommend buying a small number of Senneliers to start. As soon as I could afford it, I bought more Senneliers and some Holbeins.
Hope that helps. Hi Di, and welcome to the OP Forum! About Mungyos and other student brands: I hesitated to make my earlier post, because there really is such an incredible difference between the student grades, such as Mungyos also called Gallerys and the artist brands. But if money is a significant issue, try a student brand, and then start plotting and planning for ways to afford the good ones.
Mungyo tends to be pretty hard, but has a pretty good color selection for a student brand. Some softer student brands than Mungyo are Van Goghs they tend to be on the waxy side, but they offer tints lighter values and tones darker values of their basic colors, which is helpful , Holbeins they also offer tints, and may offer tones , and Cray-Pas Expressionist one of the softer student brands.
I offer this info because even with the less satisfactory student brands one can begin to get a feel for OPs, and do some OP painting. I cross posted here with Jane, who offers a good strategy — a very small Sennelier set would be preferable to a student set if you can afford it — watch for sales! AnnieA: Thank you for your quick reply. I am going to pick up a few of the artist brand in open stock and give them a whirl. I am really looking forward to trying them out.
I am a soft pastellist ready, and willing to give another medium a go. Wish me luck. Managing your WetCanvas! This topic has replies, 1 voice, and was last updated 5 months, 3 weeks ago by rosanticis.
Viewing 15 posts - 1 through 15 of total. August 14, at pm LJW Default. August 15, at am Shades are the opposite; a color mixed with black to create a darker tone. With heavy pressure, colors will mix and bleed without much more needed to finalize the effect.
With light pressured oil pastel use, colors are created by the effect of layering colors on top of one another. If sharp highlights or shadows are desired, you can add these details last on top of your colors.
Oil pastels can be applied with a variety of strokes to create different textures and styles. Once the techniques and skills for using oil pastels are explored and learned, the classroom applications can be blended with other learning. This can take the form of expression, visualization, and study, to name a few.
The high contrast and realistic value that can be created with the blending techniques, lends itself to many form studies and scientific drawing ideas. The varied stroke techniques allow for the simulated texture drawing of surfaces and materials, especially with animals that have fur and feathers. There are many resources out there with lesson ideas for visual arts alone and many that also deal with cross-content applications. Other resources can come from blogs and art making supply companies such as Sax: School Specialty and Blick Art Materials.
These two companies in particular, have worked to create a plethora of visual art lessons for educators. Their lesson plans list the materials needed to execute the lesson as well as sequenced directions.
Sax has recently worked to complete a set of lesson plans that incorporate the National Core Art Standards and ideas for integrating art across the curriculum. A quick search through their resource revealed several ideas for using oil pastels. This lesson explores art and science by having students recreate art from master painters, then experimenting with different mediums on shrink film.
Blick has a great introductory lesson plan for oil pastels that explores art and literacy through the work of Jean Arp. Through your own exploration and practice of oil pastels, you can begin to design learning for your students that best fits their needs.
What's your Creative Teacher Type? Take the Free Quiz to find out! Oil Pastels Susan Riley T What are Oil Pastels? Why Use Oil Pastels? Tips for Using Oil Pastels. Tricks and Techniques for Using Oil Pastels. Classroom Applications. Tricks and Techniques for Using Oil Pastels The oil in oil pastels allows for a uniquely creamy drawing medium.
Put a few drops of baby oil onto your work canvas. Try to avoid pouring in too much, and only drop oil on the areas you want to blend.
Another option would be to use a Q-tip instead. Put a small amount of baby oil on the Q-tip, and go over any lines that need blending. The stippling method is one of the simplest blending techniques out there. With this technique, you use small dots to create patterns and images.
There are paintbrushes made specifically with the stippling method in mind. They are usually fluffy and have blunt bristles. The end of the brush is completely flat so you can make dots, but I prefer to use the stick itself.
The strokes should be choppy and uneven. People also usually use quick strokes to create additional color depth. These methods seem to be extremely time-consuming to work with your oil pastels.
I have seen large pieces of work done using these methods and they look outstanding, because they have a very unique textured effect, so it could be worth your time if you can conjure that much enthusiasm to do an entire painting just by applying little dots.
Heavy pressure blending is one of the most common blending techniques. The cross-hatch method is used to blend overlapping lines that are pointing in different directions. First, choose which two colors you want to blend. Determine whether you want to make the lines parallel to, perpendicular to, or crossing one another in the shape of an X.
Also, choose which color goes in which direction. You should do this until you have a rich block of color on your paper or canvas. You can either continue filling in the block with more cross-hatch strokes. Another option would be to combine this with other blending techniques, such as oil blending. Choose a technique that will result in your desired effect.
Did you enjoy that tutorial? I hope you learned something new and picked up some tips and tricks you can use for your next art project! As you can probably tell by now, there are so many different techniques and tools you can use to blend oil pastels. I am an experienced painter and editor of Drawing Fan. Here I share my advice and experience in painting and drawing. About Wayne Crossland. I had no idea how different it can look and feel to paint on different surfaces.
It sounds like a no brainer thing when I say it now but when you are new to painting, you have to really learn through trial and error. I am trying to perfect my blending right now and this was the most useful post I have found on the subject, thank you! I have heard from many artists who were turned off by oil pastels because they were using a cheaper brand, but then later discovered they actually loved oil pastels when using a better quality.
You can mix the two together as you work, and it also helps to make comparisons between artist-quality and student-quality. This discourages artists new to oil pastels and they often move on to something else, without ever really discovering how great the medium is. What Makes Oil Pastels Great for Beginners Moving on — what makes oil pastels great for beginners as well as experienced oil pastelists , is how quick and easy it is to get started creating artwork.
There is no need for setting up various mediums and solutions, or brushes or much of anything else. All you need is a sheet of paper and you are ready to get started. Yes, you can use solutions, brushes and other artists tools for working with oil pastels. If you are interested in what type of paper is best for oil pastels check out my article Best Paper for Oil Pastels. One thing you want to have with you when first starting any new oil pastels piece, is paper towels. Yes this is usually the case with most artistic mediums, but the chances for getting messy just seems to increase when oil pastels are used.
If not paper towels, at least keep an old rag or old article of clothing available. Not only is this good for wiping off yourself, but very often when working with oil pastels, you want to clean off the sticks of oil pastels too.
This is especially important when layering and blending with other colors. Yes, you could blend that dab of the other color in, but it would dull the vibrance of your color overall.
Oil Pastels are a Unique Medium Oil Pastels are truly a unique medium, and it can take some practice to learn to work with them. You might make an intention to make your first few oil pastel pieces as learning experiences.
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