First attempt at making oil pastels with earth pigments

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@ShadowoftheDude 8 ай бұрын

Sorry if you know this, but: Oil pastels are made with a non-drying oil, not with the drying oils used to make oil paint. Your 'pastels' are actually oil sticks, they will either dry hard, or will develop a thin film that needs to be repeatedly scraped off in order to use. To make true oil pastels, you'll need a different oil -- originally coconut oil was used, but nowadays they're made with mineral oil. You could technically use a variety of vegetable oils, but you have to watch they don't go rancid or cause damage to the paper. The only other ones I'd try, personally, would be castor oil or jojoba oil.

@KJodiGear 8 ай бұрын

yes, thank you, exactly! I figured that out awhile after I made them (and they developed a skin, like oil sticks). I also made several that had too much wax in them, so they were more like crayons. I still need to try this again, to make a better oil stick, and also thought I’d try using mineral oil for the oil pastel? I believe that it is non drying.

@Aluenvey 5 ай бұрын

Interesting, so that wasnt just an odd feature of Activated Charcoal. Notably I used the same emulsion on other pigments using Olive Oil and didnt get the film.

@tjs9876 2 жыл бұрын

Thank you for documenting your experiments. They look quite yummy

@jennw6809 9 ай бұрын

This is great! Lovely to see the different results and that you even got a nice sort of a crayon, even if by accident

@Finkeldinken 2 жыл бұрын

Love watching your process!

@KJodiGear 2 жыл бұрын

Thank you!

@LiLiPoofz Жыл бұрын

That was awesome!

@KJodiGear Жыл бұрын

Thank you - glad you liked it!

@samanthanicholson9015 7 ай бұрын

Our recipe says to use beeswax, it isnt brittle it comes out nicely. That color looks so nice!

@CarlWinter-oy8uf Ай бұрын

Have you made bright YELLOW from earth pigments ? Love to se the result ?

@KJodiGear Ай бұрын

I have some yellow ochres (foraged and purchased) that are fairly bright, but not bright like a synthetic yellow pigment is. So far the brightest is one from john marshall (a natural dye website) but it doesn't say where it came from. There are quite a few to choose from on the kremer pigment website, but hard to tell which is the yellowest from the photos.