Stick It!
Oil Paint. In Stick Form.
What’s an Oil Stick?
Oil sticks are oil paint in solid
form. The same basic pigments and drying oils that are used
in the formulation of tube paint are combined with wax and rolled into
a crayon.
This crayon develops a skin as the oil
oxidizes, sealing the creamy semi-moist paint inside (this is very similar
to how oil paint dries on your canvas; even though the surface can be
dry to the touch the paint underneath may take much longer to dry).
Each time you use your oil sticks this film needs to be rubbed or peeled
off. After that, you are literally drawing with paint.
The film is flexible enough to use on
almost any substrate. Remember, however, that due to the wax content
in oil sticks they should never be used for underpainting for traditional tube oil paint unless you are adding wax to it also.
Using them over traditional oil paint is just fine.
Three Lines of Oil Stick
Wet Paint carries three lines of oil
stick: Winsor & Newton Oilbars, Sennelier artists’
oil sticks and R&F pigment sticks. While
both Winsor & Newton and Sennelier produce wonderful artists’
supplies, R&F is regarded as the premier brand for it’s extensive
range of highly pigmented, pure color sticks. In handling and application,
R&F pigment sticks are the most like oil paint loaded on a brush.
The R&F palette is comprised of 88 lightfast and permanent pigments.
You can purchase R&F Pigment Sticks right here at Wet Paint's Online Store by clicking here!
Oil Sticks, Oil Pastels, What’s the
Diff?
Oil pastels are very
similar to oil sticks but with one critical difference: the oil used
in formulating oil pastels is generally a non-drying oil.
Little to no “skin” will
develop over the pastel for this reason. Also, it is not advised to
use oil pastel in conjunction with oil paint due to the differences
in oil types. Oil paint additives, particularly solvents, are recommended
for manipulating oil pastel and can be used to great effect. When you
have finished a work in oil pastel it is best to place your drawing
under glass as the slightly tacky surface is likely to retain dust and
other detritus and the non-drying oil makes it inappropriate for varnishing.
Several Lines of Oil Pastel
Wet Paint carries the Sennelier, Holbein and Caran D’Ache professional lines of oil pastel
in sets and open stock, not to mention the Craypas Expressionist and many other student grade oil pastel sets. Sennelier, regarded as
the inventor of the oil pastel at the request of Picasso,
produces the most oily, luscious pastel of the bunch. The Sennelier
palette consists of 120 colors which are available in a standard (like
a lipstick) size and the grand size which is eight times larger.
