New direction
First arrangement (top) Birthday Party
One evening I sat down with my oil pastels and played for awhile. I’d not touched them for several months because even though I felt a sea change-over was needed, I couldn’t seem to break out of my old ways of working.
I didn’t like the irrefutable piece at all, and partly in frustration, and also just to see what would happen, I ripped it methodically into a mass of large strips. They were wonderful little dwarf paintings and I started to collage them on the same color paper I’d inured to for the original.
The next night I did the same, but this time I worked on a drawing shrewd it would be ripped into pieces. This was tremendously freeing for me because I didn’t have to over recall out a composition, I could just let loose with the colors.
This way of working led to a series of 16(so far) oil pastel collages, 25 x 25 cm (about 8 1/2 x 8 1/2 inches)I like how the collages evolved from notional abstract to containing some recognizable things. The appearance of creatures, birthday cakes, houses and more were surprises and thrilled me. I have rarely had such a good time creating work.
Well into the series I started to go back and weed out some old travail and use it for the collages. I’ll add more images here later, including some closeups.
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Oil Pastels are FUN!
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Liking Out of Chaos
This is one of the things I did with the pastels, the other [...]
Source: Theatre of Nothing
Cottage View
It's that just the same from time to time of year again. The colours have changed and the bright reds and yellows are giving way to browns and gold. Without delay the trees will be bare and the first snow flakes will start noiselessly coming down. I have not been using Oil Pastels lately. having the studio has allowed me to spread my possessions and finally be able to take out my Acrylic paints. I have been enjoying these a lot. But today I wanted to revisit the Oil Pastels. Exceptionally with this subject matter, it cried out for Oil Pastels, and I was happy to oblige. There is a in the cards freedom in not being hooked to one medium. One is free to chose the medial that best suites the occasion! I am not sure what to make of this one. I normally don't like my work when it is done, and then learn to enjoy it as I grow further from it emotionally. I don't cognizant of if that makes sense! 
8"x10",Oil Pastel on Paper
Source: artEzan
Chalk and Butter
If you have had the moral fortune to see Diane Leifheit's show (described in my post "Smite 'Meadow Front'"), you have a sense of how luxuriously expressive a compromise pastel can be.
But what is pastel? The word simply means paste - in this action, a paste of pigment and binder. However, you may recall: binder is the defining essentials of a medium. So, the binder which forms the paste determines what variety of pastel you have - and not all pastels use the same binder!
Diane is a master of what we call "soft pastel". In this instance, pigment powder has been mixed with chalk (or clay) and a thickening advocate.
Most people have also heard of "oil pastel". Can you guess the difference? Here, the binder is a intermingling of oil and oil-soluble wax.
Picture a stick of butter and stick of chalk side by side. What would befall if you tried to grease a pan with chalk? (-shudder!-) It's easier to conjecture drawing a picture with butter ... but I wouldn't acceptable it!
Likewise, oil pastel and soft pastel have very different working qualities.
Lower pastel offers the purest, clearest color, as the crystalline system of the pigment powder is not dulled by any extraneous coating documentation. It requires a "toothy ground" (that is, a highly textured exterior), and it creates a great deal of dust. The color is so concentrated that a undersized goes a long way, and it layers, smears, and blends on the soil very easily. It is also water soluble.
In contrast, the color produced by oil pastel is deeper but less profound, because the grains of pigment are coated in the oily binder. (Mark of dry vs. buttered toast. The crumb is more visible without the butter.) This is not to say that oil pastel (or buttered cheers!) is dull - far from it. Just different.
Oil pastel does not be short of a toothy ground - its sticky binder holds it onto a tranquil surface just fine. It is oil soluble, and can be combined with oil go out on the town...
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