Sennelier Oil Pastel Iridescent Transparent Blue

Creamy, lightfast, and vibrant, Sennelier Oil Pastels use the same high quality pigments and high pigment loads as their other lines, combined with a pure, synthetic binding medium and mineral wax.  As the binding medium does not oxidise, it will not jeopardise the artwork’s film stability or surface. The neutral pH mineral wax provides a remarkably creamy texture that will never harden or yellow, thus providing excellent adhesion to any support, without ever fearing cracking.

The world's finest oil pastels were their first, originally created in 1949 by Henri Sennelier for Pablo Picasso. Picasso, a frequent patron of Henri’s art supply shop across from the Louvre, was looking for a vibrant colored pastel he could use to paint on anything, giving examples of wood, metals, paper, canvas, etc. Picasso enjoyed the immediacy of children’s crayons and soft pastels, but wanted to be able to use their freer, gestural qualities on all surfaces, and wanted them to be professional quality and lightfast. Sennelier’s first oil pastels have since been the hallmark and long-time standard of the medium.

They may be thinned with spike lavender oil, turpentine, or mineral spirits to make washes or soften drawing strokes.

Features

• Pigment Index: Iridescent PB15:3
• Opacity: Transparent
• Sticks approximately 6.6 x 1.0cm (2 9/16" x 3/8")
• Acid free, Safe
• No priming required, soft creamy application
• Made in France