These beautiful Oil Pastels (Pastels à l'Huile), manufactured in Paris, orignially created for Pablo Picasso, offers freedom of creation for everyone.

The Oil Stick is a composition of oil paint. A proportion of the oil is substituted with a neutral mineral wax, resulting in the stick appearance. These colours are of perfect quality: pure pigments are ground into vegetable oils (siccatives), selected for their low degree of yellowing with time.

The choice and high concentration of pigments enables excellent light resistance to be achieved.

Apply colours directly or mix colours on support, blend with a rag or even your finger. Dilute colours with mineral spirits or turpentine, and blend them with a brush. If needed first seal paper with gesso. Mixed media application over watercolour, oil or acrylic paint. Colours may be sculpted witha pre-heated palette knife. After heating, adhere and inlay pigments, sand, sawdust, wood, paper, glass or metal into moist colour.

Grand pastel sticks are paper wrapped, Each measures 5" L × ¾" D (128 mm × 18 mm).

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