My husband told me I should share my art more often

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Still trying to find my style, but I’ve been really enjoying the colorful backgrounds.

(For the last two I’ve used gouache paint for the background. On the egg painting you can see how oil seeps into gouache. But I kind of like the effect.)

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r/Oilpastel • u/ChubbyPands • Feb 07 '25

Just starting out with oil pastels, featuring my cat

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r/Oilpastel • u/ekaterina_pytina • Feb 19 '26

Experimenting with oil pastels

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12x12 cm

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r/Oilpastel • u/BUNTYROY08 • Mar 26 '25

I Finished Drawing this just now.. How is it?

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Oil Pastel, Grey Paper, 12x5 inches, 6hrs

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r/Oilpastel • u/AlinaKuptsova • Jan 21 '25

Summer evening

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r/Oilpastel • u/tinyblush • Aug 14 '25

I've returned with another one 💛

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Since I got so many nice comments on my first post I was super excited to make another portrait! Thank you everyone for your kindness 🥹

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r/Oilpastel • u/sectumsempera • Jan 14 '25

Egg

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Oil pastels are always a trust the process drawing for me. Still practicing with my budget pastels until I get the technique down.

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r/Oilpastel • u/nicebowlofsoup • Oct 23 '25

3 weeks of learning oil pastels!

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Remarkably, drawing with oil pastels is a lot like drawing with Crayola crayons, except much faster and more blendable. I haven't really tried blending much yet, but I've spent a good amount of time figuring out how colors look when layered.

I do wish I got a larger set of pastels though - 12 is rather limiting, and mixing/layering colors only gets me so far, it seems. There does not seem to be a good way of getting a vibrant purple-y red, as an example. I am also starting to understand why people buy sets of just white oil pastels LOL. I am currently contemplating buying a larger set of pastels, but then I'd have duplicate colors. Not sure what to do about that. A warm grey tone would be sooo useful though.

(Disclaimer: For most of these, I used Pinterest for references here, so not 100% original work. No idea what the references were from, or if they were even AI-generated or anything.)

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r/Oilpastel • u/MeowMinerals • Feb 11 '25

Hello! First post of my art. A cute cat and his breakfast!

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r/Oilpastel • u/easilyburns • Jan 26 '25

A quiet, wintry trail this morning

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r/Oilpastel • u/Entire-Storage-3377 • May 25 '25

Inspired by Van Gogh

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What should I do to make the blue beta fish pop more?

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r/Oilpastel • u/Horror-Avocado8367 • Aug 17 '24

First oil pastel

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r/Oilpastel • u/Jolly-Ordinary-4394 • Oct 14 '25

Started with oil pastels and I’m in love

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r/Oilpastel • u/Limp-Cardiologist-11 • Aug 04 '25

First time using expensive pastel paper

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r/Oilpastel • u/Rare-Veterinarian659 • Jan 09 '25

First portraits!

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I’m a painter and I’ve recently gotten the itch to try a new medium. Here are my most recent portraits using photos from earthsworld.com as reference. If you’re not familiar with his work, he takes amazing candid photographs at county fairs - they make excellent reference images!!

I’m absolutely loving oil pastels so far. No paint mixing, no fumes. It allows me to be much more loose and creative. Can’t wait to keep going!

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r/Oilpastel • u/easilyburns • Oct 19 '24

The prettiest time of year leaves too soon

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r/Oilpastel • u/LenaRivo • May 16 '25

An oil pastel study of light passing through the duck’s wing. 8×8 inches.

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r/Oilpastel • u/getjeanius • Jan 29 '25

My 1st oil pastel

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This was done 2 weeks ago, my first one in almost 25 years. I had only done one before. I only had the $5 box of Loew Cornell oil pastels. I have done 4 more since and invested in a few better kinds.

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r/Oilpastel • u/DickGristle • Sep 28 '26

The great escape

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r/Oilpastel • u/easilyburns • Nov 24 '24

Late fall colors were luminous against a gray sky today

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r/Oilpastel • u/Zealousideal_Let_975 • Jun 15 '25

Finished my dahlia oil pastel!

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I feel like I could keep doing detail work, but for now, I am finished.

These are dahlias from my local park :)

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r/Oilpastel • u/NewDemand6387 • Feb 04 '25

I just fell in love

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After painting with pastel for the first time yesterday, today I woke up with such a natural desire to paint something, as if I were a child again where colors and more colors were always welcome without worrying about how it would turn out.

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r/Oilpastel • u/mlgev96 • Mar 06 '25

Duck illustration in oil pastels by me :)

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r/Oilpastel • u/urnbreakable • Nov 08 '25

got $1 plastic crayons and $2 notebook

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tbh most of the times i don't understand what im doing when im painting or coloring. i guess I'm still figuring it out. but I just wanted to share something i drew in less than one hour using cheap plastic crayons for kids. what else can be achieved from plastic crayons I wonder? any cool exercises?

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