HOW TO SEAL OIL PASTELS/STUDIO VLOG n. 47 

When I saw this title on my feed I thought it said “How to STEAL oil pastels” and I was like “this is a thing?” 😂

I have been using hairspray to seal the oil pastel paintings. But one day I guess I had a bright moment, so I tried using my heat gun over a oil pastel sketch. And boy it was great 🤯 The oil pastels melted, and now I can close my sketch book without any smoshiness anywhere 😃😃 This made it SO MUCH EASIER!

I was wondering how to seal oil pastels so I'm grateful for your experimentations - also great entertainment! I absolutely love your flower painting with the blue background - stunning!

I have used hairspray on my oil pastels and it has worked very well. Usually about 3 to 4 layers and the colours come up beautifully.

The best tip of the episode….Twirling to dry fixative. You must crack Grady up every day. Thanks for your time and sharing your talents.

Can’t begin to describe what your work and videos have done to me. Thank you, from the bottom of my heart. You’re truly awesome

I really like the painting hanging behind you against the red doors of the trees around the pond with the blue jetty

Oh I love both of the large floral paintings equally well. The cobalt blue background is wonderful. They really look stunning on your green wall. Your home is beginning to look like a gallery... but so warm and cozy. Love your videos.

Sandi Hester Fridays.!! The BEST

I can’t tell you how happy I am that you made this video! I have wanted to experiment with oil pastels, but have held off due to the lack of them curing. Now I can play! Thank you, thank you, thank you!!!

I absolutely love unpeeling and breaking my oil pastels. It helps me get past my apprehension to really use the material.

Bob Burridge loves to paint on paper, he always takes a piece of the paints tape or something stronger and sticks the paper to the table so he can work without it moving all around 😊figured maybe you knew but wanted to share, I have learned so much from you both, have bit been able to create/practice but I look forward to it. In the meantime I have enjoyed coming to live and learn with you for quite a while.

Hooray it's Sandi time 🥳.so look forward to watching you're videos and you're enthusiasm really helps .really appreciate the time and consideration you put into you're content

Hello Sandi from Paducah Ky. Not too far down the road. Lol. You are a treasure! I'm so thankful for your videos. I just discovered your channel a few months ago. Couldn't have come at a better time as I'm trying to get back into my art. I love your work!! Wow! And your attitude is infectious!!

That pop of blue flower painting is absolutely gorgeous! Another incredible relaxing and happy video as always Sandi

Thanks for this one, Sandi. I love my Sennelier oil pastels but have never been brave enough to experiment with fixatives to protect them. BTW as you have been developing your skills and techniques your work has become even more beautiful. I love your channel.

Sandi you’re a breath of fresh air 😊

I don’t paint with oils but I’m willing to watch and learn from our internet sensation artist Sandi !

Sandi, thank you for this video. I did learn a lot and needed your enthusiasm. I Have varnish but have yet to use it. I really enjoyed the conversation and your uplifting humor. The flower paintings were/are beautiful! Xxx

Thank you for all the testing and information and for making everything look fun and play. I am so inspired by your work and take on art making. Greetings from the Netherlands

you are such a fun, beautiful talented woman !! i love your videos & art. u always give me a good laugh thank you Sandi 💞💞

That was the best!!!!! 🙌🏼🙌🏼🙌🏼 Thank you, Sandy! I feel so much more confident about using oil pastels now. 🥰

Girl, you too funny. Love the twirling and I like knowing I'm not the only one being creative at such things. Girl's gotta do what a girl's gotta do. I favor the blue background, but on your wall, the darker color definitely stands out more. The flowers are lovely. Thank you for the experiments. Helps out a lot.

Love the paintings on the wall above the swatches…AND the florals 💕…fave? Blue background.

Hi Sandi! Thanks so much for sharing your test results and fly-dry technique! Last night, I started searching for “varnishing oil pastels” so was jazzed to discover this topic in your video today. I so appreciate your generous, playful and lovely spirit. The landscape painting behind you at the end of video is exquisite!!!! ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️

Oh thank you so much Sandi! I am also so glad about the hairspray. Sometimes it is very hard to find some of the wonderful art supplies you are using in South Africa. So I am definitely getting hairspray! And I love both of the flower paintings, so filled with happiness! Thank you so much for this helpfull video. You are a star!! Blessings to you!

Thank you so much Sandi for all of your tips. Very helpful. I LOVE your new floral paintings!

I'm loving your massed florals. Just a glimpse of one makes me feel happy.

Perfect!!! Love your choice of colors and how your paintings are displayed in your home!!

Love the floral painting! Makes me want to go home and play with my art! And as a post script-/love your yellow chairs.

Love learning about the oil pastels. thank you this video was so good and make me laugh . I look forward to seeing your videos on Fridays. So excited I was able to get accepted into the Spring workshop today. I have been painting in acrylics for 2 years this month. My dad is my biggest art supporter he helped me set up my studio at home with my lighting A hand made easel and drawing desk. I emailed him that I have been accepted into the Penn studio school of art!!

The flower paintings are so gorgeous! That whole collection together on the walls are just so beautiful and I really think the green walls are just the perfect backdrop of color for all your work!!

That's a hilarious one, Sandi. Jogging, yoga and drawing preservation combined. :-)

I learned so much from this one video. Thank you!

Another great Friday with Sandi. I'm going to pull out my inexpensive oil pastels and test them out. They've been sitting in a drawers for a few years now. I agree with you about breaking the sticks, they don't feel precious then. I love the hand made journals you showed. Your flower paintings are beautiful and they look great on your green wall. Thank you for sharing your experiments.

So helpful! Thank you! Your videos always make me smile and bring joy 💟😊❤🤗 I love both of the floral paintings, but I especially love the one with the blue background. Love from Scotland xxx

You are the best at these!! 🤩

LOL you holding your breath and running away from where you just sprayed- I've been there many times HAHA!!!!!! I think I can hold my breath longer since I have been doing this 🤪. You were cracking me up with the spinning on the porch. I spray just inside my garage and run away and my neighbors must think I am totally nuts!

Turned out wonderful!

I honestly have no plans to seal oil pastel in my own life, but I happily hung out with you while working in my sketchbook just because I love your personality and your gorgeous studio. 🥰🤩👍🖌

Goodness, this lady is so adorable!

Not me coughing in real life when the spray followed her! 😂😂😂 side note: i love her quirky artistic methods

Love the flower paintings! Thanks for all the great tips! Your fun!

I would never remove the labels or break them. I baby my Caran D'ache neocolor 1 & 2. But I love watching your videos. Thanks for sharing.

I’ve just reached the part where you show the painting you don’t like. And of course, I LOVE it! Might you be posting it for sale? Reached the end of the video and edited to say I love both flower paintings but the 1st one the most. I can feel both the purple and the red flower blowing with the breeze.

Love the flower paintings!💖

Love all your videos , this one is up there with being so informative, great spinning action on the porch too and I loved the naked neopastels- I do the same, little pieces are so much better too work with 🙂 keep being your truly wonderful self Sandy , you make my week 🙃❤️

I just love this video. Watched it several times and it always gets me in a good mood no matter how ill I feel. My favorite of the big florals is the one with a dark green background. They are both beautiful but that’s my favorite.

Your great total bonkers but a heart of an artist really enjoyed watching this

Thanks for a great video. Full of useful info and the kind of experimenting that maybe isn’t so affordable for everyone, but also good to see how easy it is to spray the fixative/hairspray. I cannot do this myself, but a family member could. We can make an educated guess now at what will work for us. Love your large paintings they look great. Love the abundance of everything!

I waited eagerly for this video after last week's, and I wasn't disappointed. Thanks, Sandi! Inspired to create!!

Love your experiment. Takes me back a few years before I was forced to be tethered to an oxygen tank. After all the sprays half killed me and needed to seal these babies. I had a phase of Atelier paints(acrylics). They have mediums and fixative up the wazoo. We're fortunate we'd gotten an art supply hear in the hi Desert..Yucca Valley, Ca. They started closing out 2 other locations and when my local Jack's followed suit I filled out some of my acrylics, pastels, and pan pastels. You name it from watercolor faves to well.. to the point I got the mediums that I'd wanted a 60% off. After all the sprays the non-propellant ones are the best. ATELIER UNIVERSAL VARNISH / MEDIUM! It's I believe originally out of Australia (no idea if the States carry it or what the deal is after COVID restrictions) It is the best out of many.. wipe it on in thin coats with a taklon glaze brush.. soft bristle.(let it dry thoroughly and repeat about 3-4xs. Wash out with soap and water immediately or if on site put it in a wet baggie, washed out with paint water and wrap in saran in the bag it goes till you get back to the studio. Not linked to this product,. but sharing my best and safest for your lungs. This works on everything I use so far have not tried it with ws Holbein oils cuz I had to take time off to recover from pneumonia and blood clots in my lungs. So no breathing anything caustic as oils. Sorry this is so long but we that experiment in our art with multimedia.. gotta share the results. Thank you for your shows. Also. Do you have any shows on how to make a watercolor journal out of good paper like arches. There has to be a good easy way. There are times laying in bed that I want to take it beyond my mixed media or Canson or others. But a bad day is in my way of making it back to my studio, and I have to create art to rise above the pain. When I got a great idea I want to turnout beautiful with paper that isn't fighting me. Onna

I'm really loving these flower paintings.

Thank you so much for this video Sandi. It was very helpful and I have now ordered both the fixative and varnish.

Thanks for all the tips! I love both of your flower paintings. I cannot choose. They are both so beautiful. 🙂

I bought some deli paper at Costco which works great for popping between pages to prevent smearing or unwanted transfers. I like that it’s precut and I can use sheets over and over before they finally get so ragged they have to be replaced. Also, Sandi, I love how you pronounce “oil” which is how I say it, too (I grew up in Louisiana). After nearly 30 years of marriage, my husband still teases me about it! 😂 Thanks for sharing your skills and know-how! Lotsa love from Oregon! - Tara Kate

Hi, good video, I use a mask fp2 and put the pictures in a big box so you can close it and avoid run and damage de ozono layer.😉

I'm new to oil pastels and found this video through the search bar. You seem so happy and energetic that I couldn't not get my things and do a painting. I showed the part of you running and spinning while spraying the fixative to my boyfriend, too and it was so funny. You're awesome!

I love the beautiful flower paintings!! Your hair is goals!! ❤❤❤ I hope you are doing well. Can’t wait to see you soon!

Fabulous as always ❤️

Oh my gawd! You make me smile.

This was such an enjoyable video! It was a real birthday treat to see this over the weekend. There’s something so accessible about pastels that I really love. My young students have really enjoyed experimenting with pastel landscapes this year. 😊

I LOVE the painting with the blue background, but I also love those beautiful irises! Win win! You are such a cute little character, Sandi. I was giggling at you doing your twirling. I was thinking what neighbors would think if you lived in the city and they could see all of your antics but didn’t know what you were doing. It made me laugh.😂 Very helpful info in this video! Also, I love your long luscious curly hair. I wish mine were like that, but alas it is straight and not very thick.

Hi Sandi,thanks so much for this video.I love your two big floral works in your Hallway,they are really beautiful.Such a coincidence,This week I received an order of the liquitex satin varnish,I have tried it on a large abstract collage that I did using painted tissue as well as Caran dashe wax crayons,it worked a treat,and as I’d hoped it made the sharp edged look really crisp and bright the colours out too,so great success.I have the same fixative as you,haven’t used it yet as I hold back from using pastels as they don’t dryjust me being lazy I guess,but they can be soooo messy,I will definitely go with your idea of waxed paper in my books👍🏻.I love that you have moved your workstation to under the window,I have been hoping you would do that for ages,hope it’s working for you.Hugs x

Hey sandi! You made me laugh with your spray 😂. Your flowers are both great, maybe I prefer the second ones for the softness, but the first ones are so powerful with the blue.

Thanks for all that info. Those flower pictures are gorgeous !

Another great video! The tips are really useful. ❤

Thank you for this helpful video. Your paintings are lovely, and so are you.

Shaking acrylic mediums causes bubbles to form. It’s best to stir them slowly and thoroughly before using. There’s no need to keep brushing the same area over and over again once the surface is covered.

Thank you so much Sandi for the information on fixatives. I tend to gravitate towards one brand of Strathmore sketchbooks. They are coil bound watercolor paper with a layer of vellum or regular paper sandwiched in between each page. I then don't have to worry about any huge smooshing problem, and they seem to have worked well. I think the ones I have are 11X14 and 8x6 ish and are also hardbound. Thanks again!

I love those flower paintings!! I think if they were in my home I wouldn’t necessarily put them next to each other personally, because I see one as more warm toned and the other as more cool toned. Definitely would love the pair but would put them in different rooms depending on where they fit best!

Just discovered your channel happily. New to oil pastels so looking for any help and this was one of my first questions. Looking forward to watching more of your videos, you are delightful!

I love your hair! And of course, your art! 🥰

I love this floral!

Your new studio arrangement! Airy! I wonder if your chi is flowing in a new way? Tantalizing glimpses of your decor! Anyway, now I have a renewed interest in my oil pastels. I’ve already got that varnish (it’s ‘bout to run out) and sprays. I’m fixin’ to unwrap all those oil pastels (the white crayon is ‘bout to run out). I’ve got a great evening ahead.

Thank you for the advice. I just bought some water soluable oil pastels online and I will now know how to fix them when I start using them. I love your videos.

oh awesome video. I needed this as I am just starting with oil pastels and had this exact question (Sennelier Oil Pastel fixative on its way). I loved the spin and dry method; you looked like you were having a lot of fun!

It's always a joy on my Saturday morning to watch and listen to you. I use baking paper to go on top of my glitter gel pen drawings. I stick the baking paper on the back of the previous pages, and then the glitter doesn't rub off. So I'll try the fixative for a permanent option. Thanks hon.

Great video, your very natural to watch and I love your accent❤

Love all your methods and tips. You are funny! ✨I Enjoy listening and i often start chuckling along with you. ✨Thanks! 👏

Wooo love the big floral

Thank you for your tip on sealing your work. When I am sealing my pastels work, I use clear can spray that they use to color bicycles. It’s acrylic spray. I hold my breath too and run 😊 and fan the surface like you did between layers. But I usually leave it outside for about 15 minutes

21:04 Thank you so much! No more smudging or scratches … 💖🌻💖

Exactly what I needed to learn. Thank you!

Thank you! I've been avoiding my oil pastels because of the smooshing. I will dig them out and give them another go 👍

I love that we share the same 'hold breath, then run' technique :)

loved both of the floral paintings but i am a blue girl so the blue one really makes me so happy! great tips on fixing pastels too

U are one of the cutest artists ma'am! Fun silly and great teacher!

I really love these video, i always surch for the best way to fix my oilpastel studys in my sketchbook thank you so much and by the way i looove youre hair and you are such a cute soul, i‘m sooo happy that i have found youre chanal last week 💖😇

Thank youuuu! This really helps. 🌸

Beautiful paintings of the flowers Sandi I love them both but prefer the second one without the blue but the blue works beautifully too the tree scene landscape in your last sketchbook at the end and the tea pots too I just loved thanks for sharing Sandi your hair loks beautiful like a fairy 😘

Love both

Love your hair

Thank you I feel I’m talking with a friend…it’s soooo great!!

I have a small set of oil pastels that are too pretty to let go, & I am not keen on the non-drying nature of them. This video was very helpful & now I have a new motivation to use my oil pastels, thank you !

Dear Sandi, I love your art! Thank you so much for sharing your techniques. In Argentina to seal oil pastels we use vinilic glue (Elmer's or national label) or Elmer's clear glue (but prefer the vinilic one) with a smooth brush 1 layer. Love all your videos. You inspire me! Suscribed.

Looking forward to your next vlog…..sharing with artist friends,they adore you

I have been experimenting with oil pastels (doing a Kandinsky study) because I don't really like them. I decided to do the study to see if it is the medium or me - the conclusion is that I just need to use them more because they are such an expressive medium. Thanks for the video because I have been wondering how to preserve the paintings if I like the result. Love your channel! 💜

Thanks for the great tips, I loved your circular drying techniques on the porch (something I would do too) ha,ha...and holding your breath to do more spraying (I do that too)...you crack me up!! BTW, I love the BIG painting of trees behind you, I wonder if there is a close up of it somewhere, it looks so intriguing from a distance! Thanks Sandi!

Loved those flowers ... all are beautiful, but I love the blue background the most! Sennelier is my favorite fixative -- I've tried others but nothing's as good!