Rolfes Oil Pastels, Set of 16 Assorted Colours

Oil pastels offer the richness of oil colour combined with the convenience of drawing sticks. Their creamy consistency allows colours to glide smoothly across paper or canvas while producing bold, highly saturated marks.

These pastels are suitable for blending, layering and creating a variety of techniques including sgraffito, glazing and impasto textures. Oil pastels are widely used in art education, studio practice and mixed-media work.

Key features & specifications:

• Creamy, buttery texture for smooth application
• Highly pigmented colours for strong coverage
• Fade-resistant colour performance
• Each pastel is paper-wrapped for clean handling
• Suitable for paper, board, canvas and mixed media
• Blend colours easily for shades and gradients
• Dilute with turps or mineral spirits for liquid-like application in order to blend and shade colours
• Create sgraffito effects, or glazes by applying oil mediums or turpentine with a brush, or textural effects using a palette knife
• This pastel can be used for illustration, stencilling, scratching, impasto, and dotting techniques.
• Suitable for illustration, art classes and studio work