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<\/a>These Sennelier pastels are very soft in comparison with the others, of both kinds,\u00a0 which I tried last time.\u00a0 I reckon I was over excited and used far too much pastel initially and blended (with my finger) too enthusiastically.\u00a0 This produced a messy paper with little dots and smudges from my mucky fingers and any detail\u00a0 I achieved – not much – was lost.\u00a0 It’s all too clumsy.<\/p>\nI now have vague memories of a session or two using oil pastels with my tutor many moons ago.\u00a0 He was very keen on showing marks, not blending them, so maybe there is a way forward there.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" There is a small hiatus with “In the sunshine” called ‘waiting for the paint to dry’, so I’m experimenting with my new oil pastels.\u00a0\u00a0 Tim had done a red pepper as his introduction to the medium so I thought my very red elephant would be a good venture. These Sennelier pastels are very soft in … Continue reading “The wave in oil pastels”<\/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\/1247"}],"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=1247"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/blog.williamsonfineart.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1247\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1252,"href":"https:\/\/blog.williamsonfineart.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1247\/revisions\/1252"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.williamsonfineart.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1247"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.williamsonfineart.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1247"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.williamsonfineart.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1247"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}<\/a>So I tried again, using “Stormy weather” as my source.\u00a0 this is altogether a better attempt.\u00a0 I found if I broke my (new!) pastels and used the side, I achieved a lighter mark (in terms of pastel mass) but more even coverage.\u00a0 I was then able to blend, using the white pastel with quite subtle effects since my underlying colours blended with each other and with the white.\u00a0 The rocks responded well to this method.\u00a0 I also found that an old store card\u00a0 helped to scrap off oil pastel when the surface was getting over loaded.\u00a0 It also enabled me to straighten lines like the top of the wave by pushing the pastel towards the wave itself.<\/p>\n