What you need
- Sakura Cray-Pas Expressionist oil pastels set of 50
- Van Gogh oil colour paper
- Bruynzeel Design Specialties oil pencil in Sanguine
- Sketching paper
- Cotton buds
- Paper towels
Tips
- Before starting, make sure you have a good surface to work on. For instance, a piece of cardboard, newspapers, an old towel or a table cloth would be great to protect your table from the pastel. Oil pastels tend to crumble a little while you’re working with them, so by protecting your surface, these crumbles won’t end up where you don’t want them.
- If you want to create sharp lines, use small, straight pieces of cardboard as a ruler.
- Blending colours is easiest using your fingers, but you can also use a cotton bud or the special blending pastel called the extender. This colourless oil pastel helps seamlessly blend colours with one another and allows you to extend any colour (hence the name).
- Make sure to keep a wet paper towel or wet wipe and a clean piece of paper towel handy. You never know when you’ll run out of clean fingers to use!
