Dear Adam! I'll be waiting to see how You like them: Your sense of landscape and space is so much freer than mine! One thing: they are absolutely useles in hot weather (melt between Your fingers) and best on darker surfaces
There is another solution now, but a bit costly: some of the best makers of oils carry a line of real oil colours shaped like pastels, and higher temperatures would make those flow more freely; most of the time You can buy those as single colours and combine a palette - they mix really well. They dry like oils, slow, but any kind of oil surface put out in the sun for a few hours a day would be largely protected against yellowing - or so they tell me (like taking the yellow tinge out of linseed oil by exposure, I guess). One drawback: You would need larger surfaces to work on because of the softness, and they have to be primed a bit (simple alkyd would do). Good luck!!
getting cold
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certainly got a chilly feeling here!
i have found some oil pastels in a cupboard so I am going to try them out!
adam
Dear Adam! I'll be waiting to see how You like them: Your sense of landscape and space is so much freer than mine! One thing: they are absolutely useles in hot weather (melt between Your fingers) and best on darker surfaces
have lots and lots and lots of fun!!!
alicja
oh oh, not good in hot weather... !!
most of our good summer days are between 25 and 30 deg C, I wonder how that will do?
adam
There is another solution now, but a bit costly: some of the best makers of oils carry a line of real oil colours shaped like pastels, and higher temperatures would make those flow more freely; most of the time You can buy those as single colours and combine a palette - they mix really well. They dry like oils, slow, but any kind of oil surface put out in the sun for a few hours a day would be largely protected against yellowing - or so they tell me (like taking the yellow tinge out of linseed oil by exposure, I guess). One drawback: You would need larger surfaces to work on because of the softness, and they have to be primed a bit (simple alkyd would do). Good luck!!
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