{"id":856,"date":"2018-11-15T10:01:27","date_gmt":"2018-11-15T10:01:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.williamsonfineart.co.uk\/?p=856"},"modified":"2018-11-15T10:01:27","modified_gmt":"2018-11-15T10:01:27","slug":"oil-pastel-experiments","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.williamsonfineart.co.uk\/?p=856","title":{"rendered":"Oil Pastel experiments"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>For the next few weeks, I will be trying out some oil pastels I have been given.\u00a0\u00a0 Now I love soft pastels for their immediacy and for the variety of effects I can find.\u00a0 I&#8217;ve seen some engaging paintings done in oil pastel, and wondered if they were a good substitute\u00a0 for those who cannot tolerate the dust created when using soft pastels, or who don&#8217;t like the feel of them.<\/p>\n<p>Well, of course, no medium is a substitute for another.\u00a0 What was I thinking of!\u00a0 Each has its own strengths and challenges.\u00a0 At this early stage of exploration, I could find no correlation between the two, apart from the fact that you have the colour in your hand.\u00a0 I&#8217;m using\u00a0 mid-toned green mount board for my substrate for this first attempt.\u00a0 Such work as I have seen used a firm coloured surface to work on.\u00a0 I had been given two sets of oil pastels, and both are rather ancient, but I found an immediate difference in texture between them.<\/p>\n<p>One set, the larger of the two named &#8220;Holbein&#8221;, were very oily, almost waxy when applied, and the surface was too smooth to accept the pastel evenly.\u00a0 Also I had to scrub hard to increase the brightness, and ended by pushing off the pastel already applied.\u00a0 The smaller un-named set were more granulated and adhered to the surface with less effort.\u00a0 Further work discovered\u00a0 a wide range of oiliness to granulation within each set depending on the colour.\u00a0 Clearly there is a lot to learn about the pastels themselves, never mind how to apply them.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/blog.williamsonfineart.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/On-the-beach1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-858\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.williamsonfineart.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/On-the-beach1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"444\" height=\"297\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blog.williamsonfineart.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/On-the-beach1.jpg 800w, https:\/\/blog.williamsonfineart.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/On-the-beach1-150x100.jpg 150w, https:\/\/blog.williamsonfineart.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/On-the-beach1-300x201.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 444px) 85vw, 444px\" \/><\/a>You can see the uncertain adherence of the pastel.\u00a0 This could be because the surface was too smooth (or the pastels were too oily!)\u00a0 so next week I&#8217;ll be using pre-stained canvas to work on.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For the next few weeks, I will be trying out some oil pastels I have been given.\u00a0\u00a0 Now I love soft pastels for their immediacy and for the variety of effects I can find.\u00a0 I&#8217;ve seen some engaging paintings done in oil pastel, and wondered if they were a good substitute\u00a0 for those who cannot &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.williamsonfineart.co.uk\/?p=856\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Oil Pastel experiments&#8221;<\/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\/856"}],"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=856"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/blog.williamsonfineart.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/856\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":860,"href":"https:\/\/blog.williamsonfineart.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/856\/revisions\/860"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.williamsonfineart.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=856"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.williamsonfineart.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=856"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.williamsonfineart.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=856"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}