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Oil pastels
Oil pastels are often under-rated by people who confuse them with wax crayons. A good quality oil pastel is a combination of artists’ pigment and a wax medium giving a drawing material with more in common with oil paint than a soft pastel. You can work layer upon layer, blend or scrape through and even work into the pastel with white spirit. Oil pastel never properly dries but oil pastel varnish will help to stabilise it.
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SENNELIER OIL PASTELS
Sennelier Oil Pastels
La crème de la crème of oil pastels allegedly used by Picasso, definitely used by me. Made in France with pure pigments Sennelier oil pastels are smooth, soft and creamy – a truly sensuous drawing experience. They are not uniform in softness, each pigment having its own characteristics and some become sticky if left in the sun.
 
VAN GOGH OIL PASTELS
Van Gogh Oil Pastels
Soft easy to use oil pastels in 90 colours including metallics, fluorescents and pearlescents. We stock these in starter sets of 12, 24 or 48 pastels in useful tray shaped cardboard boxes. We also have the whole range in individual sticks.
 
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