Your moon had such wonderful depth to it. It just looked so physically palpable to me. Love your work and style! I also just loved seeing you delve into using oil pastels as an art medium. I personally really enjoy using oil pastels and colored pencils together. The scraping tip was invaluable. I was shocked when I first started using oil pastels to see how well oms worked with oil pastels. I so enjoy it and it feels so rewarding to have the oil pastels fill in all of the nooks, crannies, and crevices so quickly with the oms. The payoff is nearly instant. Then when I go back in for detail with colored pencil, it’s just wonderful. It takes so much less time and effort to get what I believe to be even better work than just using colored pencils alone. For example, it might take two or three layers of using an oil pastel on an area in a picture in order to get full coverage whereas, with just using colored pencils, it might take 11 layers in order to get the full effect that oil pastels would give. On top of that, colored pencils have such a small point that covering an entire surface with them might take hours and hours and hours whereas, with oil pastels as you pointed out, full and complete coverage might take only minutes. It might just be me, but I’m really into a bigger payoff for less effort and less time. But some people really enjoy the long process of only using colored pencils. So I’m not one to say my way is best. It just is for me. Here are three things I wanted to address that maybe weren’t covered in the video: I found that using any regular fixative that I would use for colored pencil paintings works just as well for the oil pastel paintings. Of course, I was working on smaller test areas when I did it and had not let the oil pastels cure for a few months as is normally recommended. But it still doesn’t smudge at all after applying the fixative from what I’ve seen even after several months have passed by. In addition, from what I have come to understand, there are different hardnesses (for lack of a better word...”words are hard”...smile) to oil pastels, like soft pastels. Thus, applying them has to be done in order: The harder pastels should be applied on the bottom layers whereas the softer pastels should be applied on the top layers. What you have on this video are soft pastels and some of the most expensive kinds. The cheaper harder oil pastels can be applied on the bottom and then the softer more expensive oil pastels (like are used in this video) can be applied on the top. That way, you will be able to get better coverage on the bottom layers covering the paper or canvas completely since the harder oil pastels aren’t quite so translucent. But the softer oil pastels on top allow some of those layers of color below to show through. So the translucency gives it more depth, like with your moon. Also, you can get the splattered look for stars easily by cutting off a tiny hunk of an oil pastel stick and placing it in a smallish container and adding some oms to it then stirring it until the mixture has a paint-like consistency. You can dip a normal painting brush or toothbrush in the mixture and use it, then, to splatter the white over the sky like you would any other paint on a surface in order to get the star effect. You can do the splatter effect like that with any other color as well. If you want some of those splattered stars to be more white or to have halos around them, you can always go back over the stars with a normal oil pastel stick or colored pencils. Anyway, you probably already know these things, but your viewers may not. So I thought I might help to fill in possible gaps there. Thanks again for sharing all of your wonderful tips and tricks and beautiful works of art with us. Have a blessed day!

This is great! I do love oil pastels and the Sennelier are fantastic. I have found that using Arches watercolor paper and a watercolor underpainting sped up the process for me but I am painfully slow and distracted easily. Lol. Thanks for sharing.

Excellent video. Helpful for learning blending. Thank you!

I love how detailed you are in your instructions! Very helpful for us newbies. 😊

@lachri I use less soft oil pastels cheaper oil pastels) first, then for highlights I use Sennelier. For details, I use oil based colour perncils since they are chemically similar since both have oils and wax.

Wonderful tutorial! Thank you!

Thank you for sharing this with us! I love oil pastels and hope you share more tutorials 😊

Thank you. I have oil pastels, but Sennelier is gonna have to wait. But you gave me inspiration.

I used Paul Reuben and Michael's brand (Gallery) to create a large (18" x 24") poster for my daughter's dance production. Using oil pastels for figure work was a challenge! But I love the color intensity when you layer them.

This looks like a lot of fun! I'm trying really hard not to buy more art materials, but...:)🤣

Sennelier Oil Pastels are my favorite. They were the first brand of professional grade pastels I got, same with their line of watercolor paint. I’ve never used that paper but I have found that I like working on sanded paper or adding pastel ground to paper and working that way. I’ve never tried blending with oms though so I may have to try that.

I’ve been hoping to find just this kind of info on using oil pastels. Can’t wait to try it. Thank you!!

This is perfect Lisa, thank you!! I recently bought a set of 50 Paul Ruben's oil pastels I saw on sale and haven't given them a go yet, so this video will really help!!

Ugh I missed the Live but I’m gonna watch it through and give it a shot later tonight! It came out beautifully! Thanks Lisa for all you give!

I use Mungyo oil pastels for most of my bottom layers. I save my softer Sennelier pastels for the last layers, fat over lean. I love your videos, just joined MeWe to follow you there.

Oil pastels I'm using now: proArt and Pentel, both from yard sales. Ive bought 4 singles of Sennelier, all in fancy metallic colors. Just wonderful. Im puttng the lower grade ones on base layers.

Excellent explanations and techniques 😊

I use crayons and OMS to establish an under painting. It saves oil pastels as well as provides a smooth baseline

Thanks for the video. I'm going to try this painting. I've used oil pastels a few times but only the student grade. I always wanted to try senellier but they're so expensive. I recently bought a new brand Soho extra soft and wow! There is definitely a learning curve. I think they're even softer than senellier

The first time in a while, I used Sennelier and Mungo, the latter is a bit more firm but softer than student grade, but a nice moderate. Used the mungo for the base layers. I should play with oil pastels more.

What type of fixative or varnish do you use? It's a question, thank you for your video and your answer.

I have this same box of Sennelier.

Darn! How did i miss this video!!! Im looking for a way to speed up my colour pencil work, so im experimenting with different mediums. Have you done any portraits with these?

I love oil pastels, I use Rolphes pastels. I struggle with soft pastels.

Being messy is the best part of oil Pastels 😊

Indigo is beautiful

Do you think after the fixative cures you could add detail with colored pencil?

I love my oil pastels but havnt made the leap into professional level on the oil pastels yet. Struggling a little still with the Faber Castell oil pastels and the Pentel. They are pretty cheap though. I should totally try to use them more with oms.

If you leave the paper -pastel clear spots it looks more like stars in the sky

You used the term OMS, what does it stand for? is it the same or similar to baby-oil?

I'm going to try this tomorrow 😊

The fixative looks suspiciously like acrylic sealer. Looks great though. I love oil pastel, especially for plein air.

Wonderful demonstration! You made me want to try it myself 😊 Do you think a 180/gsm bristol paper would work with oil pastels?

Will you ever apply the oil pastels over any other medium ? Thanks you !!!

Can you use more oil pastels over the fixative?

So do you ever demo NOT using OMS? I stopped using oil paint because I developed an allergy to it.

Please tell me: what is OMS?

Who is the mysterious guest walking around 😊

Organic mineral spirits?

You definitely do NOT sound weird saying "Sennilier"!

What the heck is lms?? You are not explaining your product

What is OMS I think I heard that right

O M S ? Is what?

Too much red, clouds are not that bright at night