oil pastels Archives - Peony and Parakeet https://www.peonyandparakeet.com/tag/oil-pastels/ Fly to Your Inner World and Color the Emotion Thu, 22 May 2025 15:31:29 +0000 en hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.1.3 https://www.peonyandparakeet.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/07/cropped-site_icon3-32x32.jpg oil pastels Archives - Peony and Parakeet https://www.peonyandparakeet.com/tag/oil-pastels/ 32 32 Using Up Old Crayons https://www.peonyandparakeet.com/using-up-old-crayons/ Thu, 22 May 2025 15:12:33 +0000 https://www.peonyandparakeet.com/?p=29445 This week, we use up those old crayons: oil pastels, soft pastels, Faber & Castell Gelatos, Derwent Artbars … whatever you happen to have! This piece is made of Faber & Castell Gelatos and oil pastels. I used oil pastels a little more than gelatos. The paper is thick mixed-media paper. You can see in-progress […]

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]]> Art Supplies and Emotions https://www.peonyandparakeet.com/art-supplies-and-emotions/ https://www.peonyandparakeet.com/art-supplies-and-emotions/#comments Thu, 09 Mar 2023 10:17:30 +0000 https://www.peonyandparakeet.com/?p=25124 This week, we ponder what kind of feelings and emotions our art supplies raise in us. Do you remember these small paintings from a few weeks ago? I now got the fourth one finished, and I couldn’t resist taking a photo of them together. These are only 6 by 6 inches, and the small size […]

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]]> Oil Pastels and Spicing Up Your Art https://www.peonyandparakeet.com/oil-pastels/ https://www.peonyandparakeet.com/oil-pastels/#comments Fri, 24 Aug 2018 11:20:10 +0000 http://www.peonyandparakeet.com/?p=13766 This week, I show you how to use oil pastels with other art supplies. I also talk about spicing up your art, especially by choosing subjects that are so personal that they make you tremble a bit! Early Memories of Oil Pastels Making art can be compared to cooking. Sometimes the food tastes good because […]

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