Oil Sticks vs Oil Pastels 

This was extremely useful to watch and listen. I've been thinking about using oil sticks for a piece I'm working on, and this video has greatly helped! thank you :)

This was one of the most informative videos I’ve seen on pigment sticks. Thank you for such a lovely video. (I love hearing your birds in the background) and such a lovely sketch :) *subscribed*

amazing i love your studio!

Thank you for the demo at the end. Enjoyed seeing the blended vs. the textured areas.

Hi Selinia, I find that the oil pastels do set I've got paintings I've done a while ago and not sealed and I can run my hand over it, there is no residue on my hand, of course it is always best to seal it to protect it from the environment, which I normally do it a week after I've finished the painting, I use about 3-4 coats of krylon spray varnish and it brings them up beautifully or you can use the senelier brand but thats out of my budget range. The other thing I wanted to say is you can blend them, some are harder than others like pentel or even stabilo are very hard. I like to use mungyo, monte marte, micador, they all can come in different hardness and can be blended easily I generally use a cotton bud. The draw back I guess is not all of them can be bought as singles, but I do get wonderful results that are quite luminous with my paintings. I don't have any sennelier but I know they are the creme de la creme, they also have oil pastels and they are likened to using lipstick, however, they're way out of my price range. You can also use the usual oil paint mediums with oil pastels as well as other mediums like baby oil and walnut oil etc. I too don't like Picasso, and believe he wasn't very nice. I think that oil and dry pastels have a lot of wrong information about them consequently there isn't as many people out there doing videos about them, there are a few but not many, look up blackbean, he's a character! The lady who is Monet Cafe uses them a bit but she uses mostly dry pastel she's very good at sharing information and runs online courses, like wise does Nolan from the paint basket. And once again thank you for sharing, I enjoy your videos. Cheers!

My oil sticks only take 1-2 days to dry. Just like the skin on the sticks. I use shiva exclusively. Eventually you learn to keep your hands clean and I even can do details with them. Great review.

I think you might have the non-artist grade of oil pastels from mungyo. Their artist gallery version is so much better. My favs are-1. Sennelier 2. Carandache 3.Mungyo(artists’ grade). Loving your videos ❤

Thank you for sharing your knowledge, great info, great video!

Thank you for this very informative video.

I think I would cry every time I had to peel them because of the cost😂 The new Paul Rubens Haiya oil pastels are super soft, very much like the Sennelier oil pastels IMO

Sennelier oil pastels are very blendable...and its immediate, spontaneous, and no mixing, mediums, or palette, or solvents like oil paintings, although you can go back in and touch things up with a brush and oils.

You can also use canvas pads if you want a book format. I use my oil pastels a lot. The Little Brain paint sticks are a cheap way to test out if you want to try a similar media to oil sticks.

Thanks for sharing this information as I was thinking of using oil sticks. Likes your abstract landscapes very much.

I don’t feel it’s fair to compare these two products because they are both sticks. I used Sennilier oil pastels for several paintings now and they are absolutely beautiful to use. Very easy to blend and mix. The oil sticks from my research should be treated like you are painting with oil paint. My oil sticks have just arrived in the mail today so I’ll have an opinion on them soon enough. Please try Sennilier oil pastels! 😊

Awesome video! Thank you. Great information

Thank you! Very helpful 😊

Thanks for the video! It is really informative. So sad to see that you're obviously missing out on the fun oil pastels can be because of the brand you have. There are good and creamy but also affordable brands like Paul Rubens, esp. the new Haiya sets, they're really creamy. I'm in love with them. But also the mungyo gallery artist's soft oil pastels. Perhaps give them a try?

Thank you so much for a lovely and informative video!!! Also... you have such a beautiful voice (so calming)! So I have a request... can you please share why someone would use oil sticks to enhance their work (and not just keep using oil paint)? What would be the advantage?

I love your sketch.

thanks for sharing!

You show how oil sticks have a graphic, bendable use. There appears to be a liberating direct aspect to them without bothering with palette and brush.

Can I make water color sticks as well, like we did for the oil. I like the way mine turned out, I did find a recipe using half and half oil to wax... I had t tried that. Yours I made two different batches of oil paint white and a black then made the stick, I poured into chap stick tubes. Like them a lot. The white is a bit firmer with the same mix. Thanks for the help!

Hi ! What kind of paper do you use? Thank you.

Mungyo has gallery line which are more of an artist quality soft oil pastels

Thank you so much for this video. Perhaps you could help me by answering this: Can they be use together? I only use oil pastels, but I saw a particular color in an oil stick that I really, really want! But is not like I want to start using oil sticks! I just want that one color, so.... can I buy it and use it with my oil pastels?!

1st: Oil pastels are all about the brand, the brand you use means everything. the paper is very important as well. 2nd: I thought oil sticks were water soluble?

Excusing me madame, but your are comparing bad oil pastel brands with oil sticks Sennelier! You should comparing Sennelier oil pastel vs Sennelier oil sticks! I do understand the difference between each of them, but Sennelier oil pastel will stay oily and buttery as your Sennelier oil sticks rich we are using mostly on big support for abstract art mostly meanwhile oil pastel can be use on A4 support for doing small portraits as fine arts! All others oil pastels brands are not having good quality as being buttery and creamy except Mungyo soft oil pastel from Korea and others from Chinese selection such as Haiya from Paul Ruben and Hashi! From Quebec in Canada 🇨🇦 😊❤

hi. i liked some aspects of your video. however, you have given out some false information, which disappointed me somewhat. for example, there is no way oil sticks take 6 months to dry! duh. a few other bits of advice are also incorrect but i can't be bothered mentioning them. good sketch, but. i love joan eardley's art. michele