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All right, in this post we're going to talk about 

How To Use Oil Pastels On Paper?

Basically we're going to learn the Rule of Threes when it comes to How To Use Oil Pastels On Paper? you can get some really dynamic color make it really look like oil paint where you see all those bits of different colors all blending together you get a lot more oil paint effect which is what we're really going for now.

Most people when they color with oil pastels only color in one layer of a color and they wonder why it looks immature the rule of threes says any area that you put color down you want to have at least three different shades.

So, in this case we've got yellow orange and kind of a red orange and we could even work in some red too if you want but usually the rule is three so it might be these three.

Generally you want to stay within the same family of colors if you wanted to go yellows and greens you could certainly do that you could also go greens and blues those blend together nicely or you could go red purple blue pick colors that blend together naturally.

Now, what you want is to avoid our colors across from each other family on the color wheel, like purple and yellow will make a terribly ugly Brown pew color.

Same goes with red and green will make a brownish color in my opinion it might look okay but if you're going to use brown just use the Browns.

Then the last one would be orange and blue, those don't mix together they make kind of an ugly puke brown color other than that any colors will blend together nicely.

Knowing How To Use Oil Pastels On Paper is more experimentation. The more you experiment and play around with varieties the more shall you learn.

Oil Pastels Techniques

The basic Oil Pastels Techniques is the rule of threes, I think in this case we're going to maybe try a couple different shades of blue with the green now the rule of threes is wherever you're applying color you want to do so in kind of add a be unsynchronised type way what you don't want to do is color like a crayon that's going to look terrible.

If you see the above image you will notice I'm leaving areas in between my marks for the other colors that are going to go down on there.

So there's one layer now my second layer could be either of what you're really wanting to do is fill in the gaps in between you want to cover up the paper while coloring in between the areas of the first color.

There is no such formula to Oil Pastels Techniques, the idea is the colors will overlap and you'll start to see the different colors in there together so there might be layer number two and then this may be a little bit too dark but we're just going to see what happens you come in with your third color.

Try to fill in the gaps even more so if you're trying to create a shadowy type color you could come in with a dark color or if you're trying to make a lighter color instead of coming in with a dark color maybe your third layer might be white.

So with that third layer your goal is to get rid of as much of that paper as you can and what's going to happen is your third layer is going to start mixing those first two layers and with it and you're going to get a lot of different colors.

Going on it has a very impressionistic type feel to it now you can keep going back in back and forth with those same colors.

Most people would stop after one or two layers the trick is to keep going and just to see what happens when you mix different colors together this is all about experimentation taking some risks.

Alright now we could do this with any number of colors the yellows and oranges all look really good together and you can start with any color any of the three colors.

So what I suggest is just do kind of a stream of conscious I call it the Zen oil pastel project because you really aren't necessarily doing anything in particular there's no specific thing you're trying to do maybe you're just blending in different colors and just kind of having fun seeing what goes where.

But the rule of threes especially with oil pastel will give you really good looking coverage it will give you really good looking colors and we're going to go for extreme contrast so shapes next to each other you want to be light where they meet and when they touch you want to be dark on one light.

Oil Pastels For Beginners

Once you get your colors kind of the way you want them to be what might happen is they just kind of keep blending and muddying in together what I put on this one is a coat of water-based Polycrylic.

It's a water-based polyurethane and if you brush on a coat of that there's kind of a shine to it, but that creates a seal a barrier so that if you were done it's a nice clear coat gives it a really nice shine pops the color out. It is best thing to do Oil Pastel For Beginners.

You could also keep working on top because once you have that barrier down the color you apply on top of it is not going to mix with anything that's already there.

So if you really want to work up some areas differently and it's just all kind of turning into mud put a coat of that polyurethane on there and then just keep working on top.

It's going to look really good those colors will create a really nice base to work on top of you can really make them pop out now.

Conclusion

Let's face it, who really cares, try whatever you want to try, it really is a process of just coming back and forth with layers and layers. 

This is the only world where there is no har4d and thick rule, there is no formula on How To Use Oil Pastels On Paper. Its all about experimentation and practicing, the more rigorously you do it the more expert you become on this field.