How to Blend Oil Pastels

Oil pastels are a fantastic medium that will set your creativity spark alight, sending you on a journey of colors and originality as you discover the best ways to perfect your art skills and make incredible pieces. These creativity sticks will inspire all imaginations and inventive fingers to trial and error with an assortment of fascinating shades and hues and continue to make beautiful masterpieces.

Oil pastels pair perfectly with canvas, paper, card, or board. Each surface is a unique opportunity to put your oil pastel techniques to good use or even pick up new ones.

Let’s proceed with Blending

Blending is a very technical method in oil pastel drawing. Combine, mix, fuse, meld, unite, blend your oil pastels to create amazing effects that will make your piece pop with bursts of color. There are several ways to use blending. It is a great way to experiment with new and different techniques.

When learning how to blend oil pastels, you can go ahead and get stuck right in by whisking up your recipe of colors directly on your surface (on any palette). When blending on your surface, simply cut off pieces of your desired oil pastel shades you wish to mix together and place them onto your palette. Using a paint knife, mix the colors together to produce thick paint. Once your mixture is ready, time to apply it to your canvas, paper, or preferred chosen surface.

Now carry out the blending process straight on your surface. Use your oil pastels to apply your color followed by the color you wish to mix on top. Fuse the shades together using a brush or fingers, paint knife. Watch the magic happen, your colors morphing into a beautiful, brand-new shade. Keep in mind that applying thin layers may work in your favor more than diving straight in with thick layers of oil pastels.

Here is a simple oil pastel tutorial. You can learn a lot of things from this tutorial.

Few more blending methods

• Heavy Pressure Blending is a great way to delve right in with lots of medium and see where it takes you and your inventiveness. Add a plentiful amount of oil pastel onto your surface.
• Oil blending is a fun technique carried out by simply dabbing baby oil on a cotton ball and use to blend onto the surface over the previously applied oil pastel. You can shmear and smooth out your colors and control which direction you want the blending to go.

Summing Up

Oil pastels colors are one such inexpensive art supply that has so many different applications for painting. They are bright, colorful, soft, easy to hold. The oil pastel blending is a fun technique. When you draw more with this medium you get more fun-loving ideas.

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