help oil pastel

[omarpac]

i need some help on using oil pastel
specifiacally on getting color tones
i ve never used them before
so my question is how can i get different color tones of a single color?
plz help

[Jucas]

For any type of pastels, you cannot really mix, so you basically need as many pastels as possible. When drawing think about the color of your light source, just as you would in painting, then look for a pastel that has the same local color as your source but with the color of the light source added to it.

-J

[omarpac]

thanks a lot for that tip...
but wat do i blend with my finger a blending stump
and how can i get small details with them?

[jermainevl]

As far as I know, oil pastels are hard to mix. Dry pastels are better suited for mixing because you can just rub with your fingers on the surface. For details you can use pastel-pencils.

I don't really know that much about oil pastels, sorry, this is all I can tell you.

[dbclemons]

It's possible to smear them a bit with a stump or finger, but they're manufactured to be rather dry; however, you can add a bit of turpentine to push them around more. Someone once suggested using petroleum jelly to blend them, but I've never tried it. They have a rather high wax content, so mixing colors is next to impossible. You might want to mess around with the larger oil bar/sticks which have less wax in them.

-David

[omarpac]

thanks a lot for the input i will try somethin with them and try to post it

[GunTrouver]

I'm also not experienced with using oil pastels, but I saw a tutorial (don`t have the link-_-) where they mixed them with the use of turpentine. Than it looks like oilcolours. Little details you can add with pencils or something like that.