Oil pastels are a type of art material that look like colorful crayons. They use oil to help the colors blend easily, making them great for drawing and painting.
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Once the paint is dry, you can use
oil pastels on top of paint to add thick, heavy outlines or to add accents on parts of your painting.
We
used oil pastels in this activity but you could use colored pencils or colored markers.
If you and your kids already have a set
of oil pastels, I'm sure you've realized they can be messy.
How to blend
with oil pastels is really easy, after understanding these two simple steps.
We used different colors of construction paper, scissors, glue, and
oil pastels for coloring the egg.
As a parent I am (sometimes) money conscious, and one thing you'll find out
about oil pastels... they disappear quickly.
We use the
white oil pastel to color over the light blue, making her sweater lighter.
If you'd like to download this free
oil pastel activity, click the image below and right click to save.
All you need for this art project is a marker, paper, orange and
black oil pastel.
There are 50
gorgeous oil pastel pieces in different sizes and judging from pop ups in the past are sure to move super fast so be quick with your buying fingers.
We love using
oil pastels because the colors are extremely bright and transfer to the paper with almost a buttery quality.
I would recommend using colored pencils or
even oil pastels to color your drawing.
If you haven't yet picked up a set
of oil pastels be sure to read this post first.
We're also
using oil pastels to color, but feel free to use anything (markers, colored pencils, whatever you have).
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Learn how to use and exploit the various types of
oil pastels in this introductory tutorial by artist Gavin Mayhew.
Sheets can be enlarges to A3 to enable use of different media such as painting or
oil pastel etc..
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Art Supplies marker paper
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