Cat Drawing with Oil Pastels

Pastels are overall one of the most favorite items in the Koh-i-noor Hardtmuth assortment. No wonder! You can draw incredible things with them.

Let's create an oil pastel drawing with us. Adéla Marie Jirků wrote down several inspirational pieces of advice for you on how to work with oil pastels correctly and create original works of art with them!

Gioconda Oil Pastels

Compared to hard pastels, oil pastels allow you to draw on gloss-coated paper or other materials such as cardboard, wood with a smooth surface, etc., which many artists will surely appreciate.

Did you know that…?

• A drawing with oil pastels on colorful construction paper looks very impressive due to the high opacity of pigments and rich colors.
  

• They are ideal for modeling volume with light and shadow. The light areas should be drawn in shades lighter than the paper, and dark areas in shades darker than the paper. Thanks to that, the shaded object will stand out nicely.
  

• These pastels are very easy to blend with your finger or a blender, which makes the individual lines merge into a continuous, harmonious surface. Smearing different colors together creates a natural transition between shades. Thus, blending one color with another allows optically setting the picture in motion.

Oil pastels work well with pencils, markers, and colored pencils. However, it's important to remember to use them as a topcoat, as markers and colored pencils will not adhere sufficiently due to their oily nature. When combining oil pastels with watercolor or aniline colors, remember that the fat in pastels repels water. Following these simple rules, you definitely don't have to be afraid of the combination with other art media.

Now you can finally get down to work! Find an invaluable source of inspiration for your work not only with oil pastels on the website or Instagram of the author of this picture, Adéla Marie Jirků.