I think this piece looks fantastic and not boring at all! 😍 Thank you so much for sharing ❤

You should combine the Derwent Drawing with the Oil Pastels. Both are rich and creamy. I enjoy oil pastels very much on Pastelmat and I use waxed based colored pencils for fine details. I don't use my fingers much...use tortillions and I do use paint thinner and a brush when I want a smooth passage like for a sky.

This turned out great! I love the textured look you went with

You can blend them with blending stumps or cotton swabs. You don't need solvents. I can't use solvents either so I blend them with blending stumps.

In case you want to blend them to make a paint effect and you don't want to use solvents, a little bit of linseed oil works like a charm too. Of course you would need a primed surface so the oil doesn't seep but it really makes it look like thin oil paint.

It is really a pleasure to see your videos, how you approach your work and how you share it . A hug from Chile . Thanks!

I would definitely paint that house a color! Great painting

Wow! Alexis! I love it so much! I had heard of these Sennelier oil pastels but had never seen how they worked. They're very pigmented, and soft...🤔 I think, I can try it, in a future.

It turned out to be so pretty. The smoothness of the oil pastels was really fun to watch. I got rid of all my chalk pastels, but I did keep my oil ones. I'll try them again eventually...

If you're finding that using a smelly medium with the oil pastels walnut oil works really well. Leave it for at least 7 days then use a spray varnish or fixative like kyrlon or sennelier have one as well, and it help your painting to look even more luscious and it's protected against the elements like heat and light. One good reason to use a varnish is that most will protect the painting from uv light, and most are archival, so that's great for longevity, and it's also good to put them behind glass but if it's varnished it's not absolutely necessary but I like to do that it really makes them look special. I've worked for many years with oil pastels and dry pastels, and unfortunately the oil pastels are still not taken seriously as a painting medium and are often referred to as crayons, they are actually paint with extra wax. You can do quite exciting artwork with the oil pastel and the vibrancy of them is quite beautiful. The youtube channel Black bean does quirky portraits he's worth a look at, there are a few like Monet Cafe but she's not exclusively oil pastel. You can use them on pretty much anything, paper, canvas or board, I liked your little practise painting, have fun exploring with oil pastels they are great to work with they're oil paint in a stick shape. Cheers!

The end result looks lovely! Kudos to you for managing to not muddy the colours, that's always a problem I have with oil pastels haha

Like it! I have oil pastels & as a beginner I thought they were soft, your lipstick description is perfect! I also have Polychromos so will try the 2 together. Thanks for your help!

Those look amazingly soft and smooth. Kind of like the prismacolor of oil pastels. Beautiful painting as well!

Never tried these oil pastels they look so nice. I like how your landscape turned out, some areas a bit smoother and some showing the white of the paper. It creates really nice effect.

The first thing I said when using these is “It’s just like drawing with lipstick!” 😂 Aren’t they just the softest pastels ever. The landscape set is a really nice palette of colours. Your artwork is lovely! I like that you left a bit of texture, it works well for this picture. Yes, they’ll blend out with solvents, but also any oil will work (like linseed etc). Other useful tools include makeup sponges, either the little wedges or the funny shaped beauty blenders; they are great for blending pastels!

I am on a journey of trying brands with oil pastels. I have become obsessed with them since I rescued my old non brand set from when I was a kid, to try and follow a tutorial. They didn't work at all like the ones in the video so I started investigating and I bought some pentels. I was amazed at the quality difference and then I discovered that there were even better brands. I bought Van Goghs that are good for the prize for base layers, at least in my country, I've seen them be way too expensive for the quality in the US. Then I bought the mungyos which I loved the creaminess and opaqueness they have, but hated the colors because they all look to be made with white pigment. So ended up coming to sennelier and neocolors. I bought a couple of singles from each brand and I fell in love with both for different characteristics so I am saving to get a set of each.

That was a great idea to use color pencils for the castle in the middle. Your painting with the white paper peeping through looks gorgeous, I always want to cover the entire surface covered with some colors, but definitely I've learned something here from your approach. You didn't mention spraying the final piece with fixative. Even totally human friendly hairspray works great to completely eliminate tackyness. Sennelier oil pastels are brutally expensive, so i prefer using them on 24 x 32 cm max. I recently painted a 30 x 40 cm and half of my raw umber stick - which i used for background - was consumed. 😂

beautiful ❤🎉

i want to have a set of Sennelier pastels, but a no buy year comes in bites in th butt if I even go to look for some lol its a great looking landscape 🥰

Does it feel buttery? Or dry like chalky?