Crayons are colored sticks made of wax or other materials used for writing or drawing. They come in a variety of colors and prices and are easy for children and artists to use due to their blunt tips and low mess. Oil pastels are similar but contain pigment mixed with oil and wax, giving a harder edge than soft pastels but more difficulty blending colors. When using crayons or oil pastels for fine art, artists should apply the medium deliberately with layers, consider paper texture, and use techniques like scratching for details.
Crayons are colored sticks made of wax or other materials used for writing or drawing. They come in a variety of colors and prices and are easy for children and artists to use due to their blunt tips and low mess. Oil pastels are similar but contain pigment mixed with oil and wax, giving a harder edge than soft pastels but more difficulty blending colors. When using crayons or oil pastels for fine art, artists should apply the medium deliberately with layers, consider paper texture, and use techniques like scratching for details.
Crayons are colored sticks made of wax or other materials used for writing or drawing. They come in a variety of colors and prices and are easy for children and artists to use due to their blunt tips and low mess. Oil pastels are similar but contain pigment mixed with oil and wax, giving a harder edge than soft pastels but more difficulty blending colors. When using crayons or oil pastels for fine art, artists should apply the medium deliberately with layers, consider paper texture, and use techniques like scratching for details.
Crayons are colored sticks made of wax or other materials used for writing or drawing. They come in a variety of colors and prices and are easy for children and artists to use due to their blunt tips and low mess. Oil pastels are similar but contain pigment mixed with oil and wax, giving a harder edge than soft pastels but more difficulty blending colors. When using crayons or oil pastels for fine art, artists should apply the medium deliberately with layers, consider paper texture, and use techniques like scratching for details.
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A crayon (or wax pastel) is a stick of
colored wax, charcoal, chalk or other material used for writing or
drawing. A crayon made of pigment with a dry binder is a pastel; when made of oiled chalk it is called an oil pastel. A grease pencil or Chinese marker (UK chinagraph pencil) is made of colored hardened grease. There are also watercolor crayons, sometimes called water-soluble crayons. Crayons are available at a range of prices and are easy to work with. They are less messy than most paints and markers, blunt (removing the risk of sharp points present when using a pencil or pen), typically nontoxic, and are available in a wide variety of colors. These characteristics make them particularly good instruments for teaching small children to draw in addition to being used widely by student and professional artists.
If you want to try your hand at creating fine art with crayons, here are a few pointers: 1. Use Crayola. These are the best and have the best color saturation. 2. Use a paper that will grip the color evenly. I like Stonehenge or illustration board. 3. Have a good hand-held sharpener handy, and try to keep a point on the crayon. This makes it go on more evenly. 4. Apply the crayon in a professional manner, just like you would any other fine art tool. Use control and be deliberate. Don’t turn 5 years old again! 5. Build your colors gradually, and layer them. Apply a light undertone, and build darker colors slowly on top. 6. Crayons can actually be more difficult to layer with due to the high wax content. Don’t confuse them with colored pencils! If you want the “look” of colored pencil, just use that instead. 7. Some colors are more transparent than others. Some colors are very opaque. Test your colors on a separate piece of paper to see how they work together. 8. Too many layers of crayon can make the colors resist each other, making it harder to add more color. Use as few colors as possible to get your end result. 9. Scratch out small lines and details (such as hair, the veins in leaves and flowers, etc.) with a craft knife. Crayon is excellent for scratching due to the wax. 10. Do not get frustrated! You will need practice to get the look you want. It’s worth it! Oil pastel (also called wax oil crayon) is a painting and drawing medium with characteristics similar to pastels and wax crayons. Unlike "soft" or "Japanese" pastel sticks, which are made with a gum or methyl cellulose binder, oil pastels consist of pigment mixed with a non-drying oil and wax binder. The surface of an oil pastel painting is therefore less powdery, but more difficult to protect with a fixative. Oil pastels provide a harder edge than "soft" or "French" pastels but are more difficult to blend.
8 Tips on Oil Pastel Drawing
1 Choose a subject to draw and how large you want it to be. You should start with an easy subject like a dog, a house, or a lake, if you're a beginner. If you're up for a challenge, you might want to choose something harder, like a person or landscape. 2 Once you have chosen a subject, get out some paper to draw on. Depending on the size you want your drawing to be, choose a paper size that will fit your subject without leaving too much or too little space. >After you finished that, try thinking what hue or texture you want the paper to be. This is optional, but good artists can use different paper hues and textures to create different effects for their drawings. >Also, note the thickness of the paper. A fairly thick kind of paper is recommended, because you would need to press down a lot when drawing with oil pastels so thinner papers may rip under the force. There are many kinds of paper, so try choosing a kind that works best for your goals.
3 Take two sheets of the paper you have chosen: one for testing on, the other for the actual composition. On the testing sheet, draw something smallish. Don't draw too many details, this is only for testing. It will help you get used to the feel of the paper and the pastels before you start your actual artwork. 4 Lightly sketch an outline of the subject on the main paper with a pencil so that you can erase the lines if you made a mistake. Don't worry about the details yet. The details aren't so important at the moment, however, later they will make the drawing more beautiful! So try adding little details later! 5 Add colors to your drawing with your oil pastels. Plan out your color schemes and which areas you would want to blend colors. Start out by coloring the drawing roughly, and adding more details as you go along. 6 Add more layers of colors to blend them together. Also, try blending them with your finger or an artist's tool to move the oil pastels around the drawing. Using your finger is the recommended method. 7 Have fun. Drawing with oil pastels may be hard, but you can have fun too! Don't think that if you failed you will never be able to make art. Remember that this was still your first attempt and that everyone needs practice to do something well. 8 Finished.
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