Hey guys! So I really love art, and I think that I will be starting to post a lot more art projects and stuff like that. So to kick that off, this is a little beginner's post on oil pastels. Now I don't know about y'all, but I love pastels. They are so easy to use and if you mess up, just smudge it and you can make your mistake look pretty cool. Plus they're colorful!!!
So for pastels I usually get mine from the thrift store or from yard sales. Oil pastels are the one thing that I use a lot of, and I actually really like just getting used sets because they're cheaper. So these two sets of oil pastels are ones that I've gotten from the thrift store, and they're both pretty good. If you don't feel comfortable getting pastels from the thrift store, then I recommend both of these sets of oil pastels.
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| I don't know if y'all can see this, but these are Guitar Oil Pastels. If I could recommend one type of oil pastels, above all, to recommend to you guys, this would be it. They come in very vibrant colors although I guess that you can't see that very well in the picture. The only thing is that there is not as many colors in the set as the other oil pastel sets I have. But if you don't mind that, then these oil pastels are for you! I don't think that you can buy these at a craft store, like Michael's, because they are from Japan, but people are selling them all over Ebay. |
Okay, now I also really love this set of oil pastels. They smudge very easily, but they do not have paper wrapping around them, so they will get your hands all nice and colorful. Also, these oil pastels break very easily, which is why all of my oil pastels are split in half. And yet I even have the Prismacolor hard pastels... I actually think that they break more easily than the rest of my pastels. But if you don't really care about that, but you do like an oil pastel that can smudge easily, like me, then this set of oil pastels is for you! You can by these oil pastels here:
Now for paper... I really like this paper fort oil pastels, but it is actually just a regular drawing pad.
It is the Cà Grain Dessin Papier by Canson. It is a French product, so you'll have to buy it online. You can buy it here:
Now these are some new products for pastels that I have not yet been able to try out. But they are from my Aunt who is an art major, so they must be really good oil pastels. They are the Pro Art Jumbo Oil Pastels and the Strathmore Pastel paper. You can buy them both off of amazon.com
Now lastly I have a hairspray. When you use oil pastels, you need something to spray on your work of art to make sure that it doesn't smudge. You can buy this really expensive setting spray, but hairspray works just as well, and it's a lot cheaper! I just got the Suave Professionals Touchable Finish Hairspray.
I hope that this helps, and that y'all have fun with your oil pastels! Please send me a picture of what you make! Bye!
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