1. Oil Pastels
Let's get started...yeah!

2. A bit about Oil Pastels
Oil Pastel is a painting medium much similar to crayons.
Different from soft pastel sticks which are made with a gum or methyl cellulose binder, oil pastels are made of pigment mixed with a non-drying oil and wax binder.
The non drying wax binder makes the surface of oil pastel painting less powdery, but more difficult to protect with a fixative.

3. History
The very first oil pastels were made in by Sakura and named Cray-Pas because they were a cross between the clean dustless ease of crayons and the brilliant saturated colors of traditional soft pastels.
Talens of Holland also created some Panda oil pastels in 1930, but the medium really took off when Picasso and painter Henri Goetz spoke to Henri Sennelier about creating something with traditional artist pigments.

4. Tips and techniques for using oil pastels
Like colored pencils, the hardness of each stick contributes to a different purpose. Many artists combine different brands of oil pastels to achieve different effects.
Firm brands like Cray-Pas Specialist or Erengi are better for early layers, fine details and control. Softer products like Holbein or Sennelier can be used when the surface tooth is fully saturated over heavy layers of the firm oil pastels.

5. Oil Pastel 101
Oil pastels can be used wet or dry on any support: paper, board, canvas, glass, metal, wood. . . even rock. Some surfaces work better with a coat of gesso, for preservation or more tooth, but you can be confident in using an oil pastel over any kind of found objects in a collage or mixed media piece.
They should not be applied heavily under a traditional oil painting without a good thinning of turpentine, as oil pastels have mineral oils in the binder that never completely dry. Treat them as “extra fat” in relation to oils in mixed media—the oil pastels layers should be the outermost.
Some brands of oil pastels do harden somewhat, but not to the level that an oil or acrylic painting will, which means the surface can’t be dusted without smearing the paint.

6. Techniques
Feathering oil pastels, blending oil pastels with water, sgrafitto on oil pastels, dry pastels blended with fingers, oil pastel candle technique and dry pastel blended with water
Sgraffito is a painting technique where the artist scratches into the top layer of the paint to reveal areas of the surface underneath.

7. Examples Spring Has Sprung Painting by Art Nomad Sandra Hansen
Title: Majestic Kapok
Medium: oil pastel on bristol
Size: 2 1/2 x 3 1/2"

8. Bird Portrait : Elvis II
By: Leanne Wildermuth
Siberian Tiger ~ # 1
By: Mary Dove

9. Grace
Oil Pastel
24 x 18 inches
by:Zane Mills
Self portrait
oil pastel on board
30x45cm, 2005
Artist’s collection
Portrait
9x12
by:Susan Carlin

10. Watch And Learn
Watch the following youtube.com videos and answer the questions on the handout.
Turn in for a grade.

11. Our Project is..... Landscape!
Have 5 different landscape images to choose from -worth 10 points due by Wednesday
Watch video list and answer questions by Wednesday
Practice small pepper- 1 day
Start 11x14 drawing of landscape (Thursday)