Oil Pastel Tutorial 1 Layering

Fall 2004, Oil Pastel on Sketch Paper

Oil pastels float in limbo somewhere between drawing and painting. I think the way I use them leans closer to painting, even if you "draw" with them, so I stuck this tutorial under that heading. There's no right or wrong way to use oil pastels, but the methods I've come up with on my own are fast, forgiving, and I like the results. I'll do another tutorial sometime about painting water, and how to make textures, etc.