One of the oldest materials used for creativity, is pastel. It wrote his magnificent works of Renoir, Leonardo da Vinci, Degas, and other artists. Pastels can be used as a standalone tool image, and as auxiliary material in other techniques, including modeling of polymer clay and decoupage. Pastel stands out with bright vibrant colours and velvety texture.
Made of pastel coloring pigment and a binder, which may be a wax, gum Arabic, or a mineral oil. In stores you can buy pastels in the form of pencils rimless or crayons. There are three types of pastels: watercolor, oil and dry. Take a closer look at oil pastels and how it is used in drawing.
Oil pastels are very similar to crayons, with sufficient softness. In addition, the colors are very saturated. Chalk pastels are made in the form of small cubes with square or circular cross section. They differ from wax by the presence of more pigments, high elasticity and resilience. You should pay attention to the fact that oil pastel repels dirt and after applying it to the surface of the sheet requires no additional fixing in the form of varnish.
Drawing in oil pastels are suitable for any surface. The advantages of this tool include the ability to blur. For this the artist needs to have a special thinner for oil colors and a smudge-stick of pressed paper. It is dipped in the solvent and dilute to obtain the desired color. Drawing solvent should be carried out in a room that is well ventilated.
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The Texture of oil pastels allows you to create effects that aren't possible in other techniques of drawing. For decorative paintings very often used oil pastels, application technique which allows you to pass rich and deep tone of the depicted object. Artistic drawings made by this method, it is preferable to keep within the framework and under glass, and must be a gap between the glass and the picture. It is necessary to save the image, as drawings in pastel, is very susceptible to minor damage, shedding, and can be easily erased.
Oil pastels requires a rough basis, because poorly kept on the surface. For this technique you need a special paper, for example, sand, loose fleecy cardboard, suede, canvas, parchment or paper “torchon”. The advantages of this material include the ability to shoot and cut several layers.
Oil pastels are a huge number of shades, of which there are more than a thousand. This diversity allows us to implement any creative ideas in different genres. Technique, pastels have come a long way from the simple three-color pattern to a full-fledged painting, which became especially popular during the Baroque period, but now prefer to use the Impressionists.
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