After a few weeks away it was great to get home to the oil pastels!1
I painted this one on canson mi-teintes paper, with sennelier oil pastels, and was reminded that when used on paper, even the greasiest oil pastels do set somewhat! Between days, the pastels set up enough it wasn’t blendable with my finger, though it was certainly still smudgable and easy to scratch. This meant I did really need to think in passes or layers, knowing that what was underneath would be unlikely to move much.
That aspect of this I definitely liked! But honestly, I used the more heavily textured side of the Mi-Teintes paper and I am not a huge fan of its visible texture. I’ll have to try the smoother side next time.
- They don’t travel so good, especially if they’re getting tossed around like on a plane. ↩︎
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