What is an Oil Stick?

Oils Oils medium technique

You may have seen some works using Oil Stick or Oil Bar. What is this medium?

In simple terms it is oil paint rolled with wax into a crayon shape. Yep - back to school and making art with crayons again! So it is really just solid oil paint. It dries like oil paint and leaves a durable, fixed surface. 

This short video shows it in action. 


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