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Unfortunately I think such a perfect medium does no exist at this point in time. But the closest thing would be Neocolor 1. They are also highly pigmented, opaque, layer extremely well and on the right paper you can blend them quite well with one another. With the Neocolor 1 crayons you can create pictures that do look a lot like something done in oil pastel, but since they are wax crayons they will unfortunately not give you that special texture. The other thing you could do is to try different oil pastel brands. While none of them fully dry like other media, some remain a lot smudgier than others. Sennelier is an extremely soft brand. Have you tried something else? Like maybe Neopastel or Mungyo Gallery Soft Artist Oil Pastels? Those are also really nice quality, but nowhere near as smudgy and soft as Sennelier. I have been using these two brands a lot, and I even managed to use them in my sketchbook without creating a huge mess. Maybe you want to give those a try.

@@justacatwhocantype Thank you for the good suggestions. Since leaving that comment I too thought along the same lines, and things are much better now. Mungyo I'm not too keen on, since it has most of the disadvantages of Sennelier (soft and smudgy) and few of the advantages (Sennelier are masters of depth and nuance of colour). I could say the same about Lyra: nice but not very imaginative (it's only my opinion, of course). I now have Pentel Artists' (very nice) and Crayola (odd, but I like them quite a lot), plus I bought some wax paper sheets to 'hang' over done pieces, so the never-drying issue seems to be solved, at least for now. Will investigate Neocolor 1. I checked, but mine are all Neocolor 2.

​@@gnostie I empathise with your difficulties and am glad you found a solution. [I hate getting it all over the place, especially under my nails, so I wear gloves, but then I'm happy with that option. Perhaps partly because I only use my oil pastels when it's cold enough to wear the gloves without getting sweaty hands (about 8 months a year where I live! 😉).] To give you another option: if you add most oil paint solvents to oil pastels, then they will dry. It'll take about as long as it does for oil paint, but it does give you more options. White mineral oil (the ingredient in baby oil that blends oil pastel) doesn't dry, but odourless mineral spirits are apparently really good. Linseed oil also brightens the colours. And there are options like Zest-It (I've only seen it sold for use with coloured pencil, but was put onto it by an oil painter). If you want to go down this route, I would suggest that you chat to someone at your local art shop about which one best suits your needs though! Happy painting!

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The Neocolor 1 can be worked with solvents, yes. I have done this using Zest-It (it's a blending fluid for color pencil) and the result turned out really nice, looking a bit like an oil painting. Definitely worth giving this a try.

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