{"id":1238,"date":"2020-03-21T14:49:41","date_gmt":"2020-03-21T14:49:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.williamsonfineart.co.uk\/?p=1238"},"modified":"2020-03-21T14:49:41","modified_gmt":"2020-03-21T14:49:41","slug":"oil-pastel-exploration","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.williamsonfineart.co.uk\/?p=1238","title":{"rendered":"Oil Pastel Exploration"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>Well!\u00a0 They’re here.\u00a0 The SAA never take long to deliver.\u00a0 I only ordered these yesterday.<\/p>\n

It’s official.\u00a0 The more waxy pastels are the real thing, not the ones I used in the Lorikeet.\u00a0 What those were, I don’t know except that they were sold to me as oil pastels. They weren’t dusty but they did throw a sediment which slid floorwards.<\/p>\n

To pastures new ….<\/p>\n

The book, ” A Beginner’s guide to Painting with Oil Pastels”\u00a0 is highly informative and very easy to follow.\u00a0 I don’t know how far I’m going with\u00a0 this medium. The list of possible additional materials and tools numbers 23! \u00a0 Nor do I know if\u00a0 they will dent my love affair with soft pastels – somewhat unlikely, I should think.<\/p>\n

A quick glance through the book told me what I know from other art materials.\u00a0 There are varying degrees of quality in the pastels themselves.\u00a0 Tim Fisher, the author, uses Sennelier (hurrah, that’s what I bought) which are more malleable.\u00a0 The good news is that the pastels work on most surfaces –\u00a0 including plywood, canvas and aluminium panels\u00a0 – but Tim prefers Framers mount board.<\/p>\n

However, before I launch into this new medium, I must answer the call from “In the sunshine”\u00a0 and re-visit the south of France.<\/p>\n

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Well!\u00a0 They’re here.\u00a0 The SAA never take long to deliver.\u00a0 I only ordered these yesterday. It’s official.\u00a0 The more waxy pastels are the real thing, not the ones I used in the Lorikeet.\u00a0 What those were, I don’t know except that they were sold to me as oil pastels. They weren’t dusty but they did … Continue reading “Oil Pastel Exploration”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.williamsonfineart.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1238"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.williamsonfineart.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.williamsonfineart.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.williamsonfineart.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.williamsonfineart.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1238"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/blog.williamsonfineart.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1238\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1241,"href":"https:\/\/blog.williamsonfineart.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1238\/revisions\/1241"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.williamsonfineart.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1238"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.williamsonfineart.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1238"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.williamsonfineart.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1238"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}