Description: Oil pastels history, tips, techniques, lessons exploring every aspect of this clean, colorful fine art medium. Includes product reviews, mediums, surfaces, tools.
Come explore Oil Pastels with me! Explore Oil Pastels with Robert Sloan shares my discoveries in an often-neglected fine art medium. Oil Pastels are clean, safe, economical and cost effective for the professional artist, serious hobbyist and any beginner who wants to kit up for real art on a kid’s allowance.
My name is Robert Sloan. I’m a full time writer who used to be a full time street artist in New Orleans. I’ve also taught art to beginners who swore they couldn’t master the stick figure but grew to sell their art within six months to a year.
I joined the Oil Pastel Society late in 2008 when I discovered this fine art medium has some amazing professionals. Their works awed me with passion, skill, realism and light-drenched Impressionism. My skills began to grow by leaps and bounds, even in mediums I thought I’d mastered.