Okay people...I just had what might be a BRILLIANT idea...for MOLDING the sticks....USE COIN WRAPPERS that you can get from the bank! You know...for when you want to count up your own change? DIMES...NICKELS...QUARTERS....PENNIES....ALL sizes that would be perfect. Maybe just coat them inside quickly with some hot beeswax so that the "filling" doesn't stick...then you're all set to just peel away !! You're welcome. LOL! THANKS for this video...thanks for giving me that idea.
Tried this recipe this morning;( I didn't have paraffin oil so used baby oil and beeswax) - I salvaged paint from old well squeezed tubes. I have to say these oil bars have the most beautifully creamy texture and are much less dry than sennelier oil bars. Thank you Mervyn for your fab video and knowledge - I will certainly be making more of these from old tubes of paint ... it's a delightfully messy way to spend a morning and a great money saving strategy!! :-)
I use pieces of cardboard to suck up the excess oil prior to making my encaustic wax medium. With this approach, my palette knife does a great job of cleaning up all the paint after the cardboard soaked up the oil. I generally let it bleed overnight. 🤗
In Hong Kong, can only get 5 colours of the oil bars , the brand I dont like. Paid a fortune to have 10 oil sticks delivered from USA, so will try this in future. Thanks!
These are not "oil sticks" they are oil pastels. I have made excellent oil sticks that produce paintings that dry, using dry pigments, stand oil, carnuba wax and and damar varnish, blending ingredients with a palette knife or glass muller on a glass palette, adding enough dry pigment to make a stiff clay that can be kneaded and rolled with your hands (wear gloves). They will last for months stored in a tightly-sealed container. Experiment with the oil/carnuba/damar ratio to achieve the consistency you prefer.
@@kimfox5071 I am in the process of making several videos on how to make various artists' materials, including actual oil sticks, which I will post on youtube.
Thanks Mervyn was wanting to give the oil sticks a go but the price and lack of color choice was preventing me. Mixing the right colour is going to be a real bonus and something to do during this mad lockdown we are facing in VIC. Thanks again.
Hey Merv, I would like to share something with you and everyone else. If you take one crayola crayon, and melt it down together with 1 teaspoon of refined linseed oil (mix well) then pour it into a mold, you get an oil pastel. The oil pastel drawing/painting will eventually harden. I'd say if you added 1 teaspoon of paraffin oil (instead of the refined linseed oil) you would get a standard oil pastel (but I haven't tested it).
Thank you for your good advices for homemade oil pastel bar! I watch you a year ago, but I had lost your video, but just at time I found you finally today in my experienc of doing my own oil pastel paste, instead of bar! Happy to find you again finally!
Of course the scissors magically appear, they’re always on a conference or meeting somewhere, never tell when they go and never tell when they’ve come back. Often accompanied by keys… 😁 Great video, I have to try this out. Thank you 🎩
Hi guys (non-sexist "guys' ... all your wonderful questions, opinions, and creative criticism are great and most welcome ... now a days my little grey cells don't function that well so please accept my apologies if I haven't replied to all of them. 😊
@@MervB1 the result was a beautifull magenta oil stick that soft like lipstick 🤤😍, I made a some lines and a simple drawing with the oil stick that I made, in a few days i'll put the update if it dryes!
@@FrancescoPinnasassari yes, it took only 3 days to dry, i tried also with bleached bees wax and the result was a bit harder aoil bar but still very soft ❤️
Long time since I've used them, fro memory they took about 10 days to touchdrive. Because they have a wax base I don't know that they 3ver fully dry, however, I've used Crystal Clear
@@MervB1Senneliers fixer is for their oilpastels, not their oilbars. The oilbars dry like oilpaint after a while, the oilpastels never dry. So I'm actually very curious if the ones in this recepie dry, should be easy enough to know. The sticks will form a skin in a week or so if they do dry.
@@MervB1 That senellier oil stick you showed us in the video is an oil stick not oil pastel. Is that what you’re calling an oil pastel? Also do these sticks dry once painted?
@@kimfox5071 oil pastels, oil sticks, whatever, do not really dry, they generally take about 10 days to touch dry, that is why most artist put them under glass. H owever Senelia do sell a fixer which is quite good, I've also used Crystal Clear with some success. Technically there is a difference between oil pastels and sticks, its just don't worry about the difference.
@@MervB1 my research tells me that actually there is a difference between sticks and pastels. Sticks have dryer. Pastels are just pigment and oil and wax they dry at the same rate as regular oil paint that doesn't have any dryer in it. Using this recipe with oil paint from a tube they probably will dry if there's a dryer in the paint. Richardson's Shiva paint sticks dry quite fast. The sticks form a skin that you peel or wipe off that exposes the creamy paint. Thin layers dry overnight. I'm attempting to figure out how to make paint sticks that dry using linseed oil and fast dry medium with dry pigment and wax.
I've missed commenting on or acknowledging some of your comments and suggestions ... apologies. Dolly Suntrum, I can't see your comment to acknowledge it, but thanks and the idea of candy molds i a good one.
I think you're making oil sticks not oil pastels, right? Oil sticks use an oil - linseed or walnut - that dries. Oil pastels use an oil that never dries.
There is little difference in the end results, yes one has a skin and the other doesn't, both seldom dry entirely though the commercial pastels generally are touch dry after about 10 days. I use both together. Their are other recipes for 'oil pastels' around ... like to hear how you go, if you try them.
Dear mervyn, thanks bro'! I have a realy important question... Is this paint actualy dry on the canas at the end? Cause i have some oil stick paints that NEVER dry fully!
It is the wax and can vary with temperature. Best idea is frame them behind glass. I have never tried it but you might be able to store them in grease proof paper.
Those are paint sticks but do some more research before attempting to make these. Heating up toxic elements like cadmium or cobalt pigments could really be harmful to anyone in the area if not properly ventilated.
If you find out let us know. Being wax based I'd doubt that it really actually dries, but there are some sealants available. Sennelier make a good one.
frank ... not sure I understand the question. The sticks are wax, and as such never dry. Much the same with the paintings made using them, however, the paintings usually take about 10 days to be touch "dry". Sennelier do sell a fixative for oil pastels that works well .... when exhibiting, it is advisable to mount the picture behind glass. After about 10 days the paintings are fairly robust. Hope that helps. If you are sketching you can stack them, not face to face ... maybe with some kitchen paper, or even plai clean paper separating each sketch. It I s a fairly sturdy medium.
yes im from Southamerica so i dont do well english jaja but no, i want to know what to do after you put all the mix in the aluminum molds when the will be ready to use thats it
I cannot find paraffin oil , the only stuff I can find is the stuff used in lamps at the hardware store , I am going to try linseed oil or coconut oil instead . I will write down my results
I’m gonna try this today. Parrafin from the tea candles is your mineral oil and it is wax ? So I’ll give it a go . I’m thinking it might just become a crayon. I don’t mind though I just want something thick and chunky to paint with
With all due respect, mate, there are too damned many steps involved just to make ONE stick. However, you have quite a following I see, so more power to you. This is just too much work for simple me.
These are wax based, while they dry to touch ( not recomended ) , they will harden after about 10 day but when they are ysed to create with (draw/paint) they remain lush and buttery. There are fixatives available, but artworks should be displayed under glass. If I call them oil pastels I get told to call them oil sticks and call them oil stcks and people want call them oil pastels. Call them what you will. But enjoy them.
I guess that's due to the small amount of linseed/walnut oil from the oil paint forcing the overall mixture to harden after it oxidises. I guess strictly speaking purists will say an "oil pastel" should contain only non-drying oils and an "oil stick" should contain only drying oils, whereas you use a combination! Is there a particular reason you do this, besides the convenience in the making process in using ready-made oil paint? I am interested in making pure oil sticks, so I will be diverging from your particular recipe, but there've still been some great tips here in terms of mould-making and just general inspiration. Very thorough tutorial - the way everyone should do it.
Im gonna try some........Look Yummy.......I Do Not Have 10 bucks per color of giant oil pastels....I did get white and flesh in giant size to go with my still life set ...But if I can make the Giants my self.......Mabe Ill experiment with the mineral/linseed oils too..I have some oil sticks too...FUN and low cost To make My Own Colors.....!!!!!!
Okay people...I just had what might be a BRILLIANT idea...for MOLDING the sticks....USE COIN WRAPPERS that you can get from the bank! You know...for when you want to count up your own change? DIMES...NICKELS...QUARTERS....PENNIES....ALL sizes that would be perfect. Maybe just coat them inside quickly with some hot beeswax so that the "filling" doesn't stick...then you're all set to just peel away !! You're welcome. LOL! THANKS for this video...thanks for giving me that idea.
Tried this recipe this morning;( I didn't have paraffin oil so used baby oil and beeswax) - I salvaged paint from old well squeezed tubes. I have to say these oil bars have the most beautifully creamy texture and are much less dry than sennelier oil bars. Thank you Mervyn for your fab video and knowledge - I will certainly be making more of these from old tubes of paint ... it's a delightfully messy way to spend a morning and a great money saving strategy!! :-)
I use pieces of cardboard to suck up the excess oil prior to making my encaustic wax medium. With this approach, my palette knife does a great job of cleaning up all the paint after the cardboard soaked up the oil. I generally let it bleed overnight. 🤗
one of the best thing on youtube.
I'm from the United Kingdom and just started using oil bars. Thanks for sharing, great advice and a lot cheaper to make.
your welcome ... have fun
In Hong Kong, can only get 5 colours of the oil bars , the brand I dont like. Paid a fortune to have 10 oil sticks delivered from USA, so will try this in future. Thanks!
These are not "oil sticks" they are oil pastels. I have made excellent oil sticks that produce paintings that dry, using dry pigments, stand oil, carnuba wax and and damar varnish, blending ingredients with a palette knife or glass muller on a glass palette, adding enough dry pigment to make a stiff clay that can be kneaded and rolled with your hands (wear gloves). They will last for months stored in a tightly-sealed container. Experiment with the oil/carnuba/damar ratio to achieve the consistency you prefer.
Could you tell us the proportions of the ingredients? Thanks
I make oil paint sticks in different hardnesses by varying the ratio of the ingredients. I am thinking about making a video and posting it.
@@aliciaczechowski3281 Could you give us an idea of ratios for a regular consistency please? I’m desperate to make some.
@@kimfox5071 I am in the process of making several videos on how to make various artists' materials, including actual oil sticks, which I will post on youtube.
Alicia, how is your video coming?
Best name ever, Mervyn Beamish. Much appreciated info.
Thanks Mervyn was wanting to give the oil sticks a go but the price and lack of color choice was preventing me. Mixing the right colour is going to be a real bonus and something to do during this mad lockdown we are facing in VIC. Thanks again.
Good Luck, glad I could help
Hey Merv, I would like to share something with you and everyone else.
If you take one crayola crayon, and melt it down together with 1 teaspoon of refined linseed oil (mix well) then pour it into a mold, you get an oil pastel. The oil pastel drawing/painting will eventually harden.
I'd say if you added 1 teaspoon of paraffin oil (instead of the refined linseed oil) you would get a standard oil pastel (but I haven't tested it).
Thanks
The crayola with the Linseed oil works?
idk... it starts out in life as a crayola crayon.... already basically the lowest quality you can get...
But will it dry like oil stick or will remain as oil pastel and never dry?
Thank you for your good advices for homemade oil pastel bar! I watch you a year ago, but I had lost your video, but just at time I found you finally today in my experienc of doing my own oil pastel paste, instead of bar! Happy to find you again finally!
Thankyou
Of course the scissors magically appear, they’re always on a conference or meeting somewhere, never tell when they go and never tell when they’ve come back. Often accompanied by keys… 😁
Great video, I have to try this out. Thank you 🎩
Thanks Merv top tip here, I plan to give it a go as soon as I collect the ingredients.😊
TFS! The oil sticks are so expensive. I will try this.
Thank you for the instructions
Great video Mervyn! I will have to try this. Thanks!
Thanks for the video but my wife would kill me if I did this. lol
Get a new one! Lol
That's amazing! Thank you, sir!
Used your recipe, made some oil bars from some extremely old oil paint and a year later, they haven't begun to dry out and the colors are amazing.
Very good idea!!!thank you
fascinating, thank you! (and that is a very nice frypan)
Thanks for sharing this i will try it out, but your MUSTY green peas can was the best, think you meant MUSHY lol
Hi guys (non-sexist "guys' ... all your wonderful questions, opinions, and creative criticism are great and most welcome ... now a days my little grey cells don't function that well so please accept my apologies if I haven't replied to all of them. 😊
Really helpful thank you !!!
Thank you ❤️
Greta video Mervyn, do the sticks dry fully onn canvas after a week or so? Ive found oil 'pastels never really dry.
I just tried today, but instead of beeswax i used a candle wax and linseed oil, i hope it works, wish me good luck!!
Let us know how it works out
@@MervB1 the result was a beautifull magenta oil stick that soft like lipstick 🤤😍, I made a some lines and a simple drawing with the oil stick that I made, in a few days i'll put the update if it dryes!
@@chango2406 has it dried?
@@FrancescoPinnasassari yes, it took only 3 days to dry, i tried also with bleached bees wax and the result was a bit harder aoil bar but still very soft ❤️
@@FrancescoPinnasassari the video is in my Chanel, its in spanish but you can forward the video untill te las minutes just to see how they paint.
blotting paper works best for sapping oil out of paint. you’ll have less product loss as well
plus it will be acid free if you get it from an art supply store. a big sheet is about $5 here in the states
Great tip!
Are these oil bars/sticks (that dry in time like oil paint) or oil pastels (that do not dry and remain tacky in need of a fixative)?
Long time since I've used them, fro memory they took about 10 days to touchdrive. Because they have a wax base I don't know that they 3ver fully dry, however, I've used Crystal Clear
Ooops ... also Sennelia make a specific fixer for them.
@@MervB1Senneliers fixer is for their oilpastels, not their oilbars. The oilbars dry like oilpaint after a while, the oilpastels never dry. So I'm actually very curious if the ones in this recepie dry, should be easy enough to know. The sticks will form a skin in a week or so if they do dry.
Stood the molds up in a soup tin half full of rice.
You’re a peach ☺️ thx!
I’ve tried Patterson paraffin oil and bleached beeswax with pigment not oil paint and it didn’t work
do you have ratio for beeswax and pigment and oil?
Can i do this with pigment powder? And can i use candle wax ?
Karin dogs Yes, but you'd have to mix linseed oil into the pigment before you mix it into the beeswax/mineral mixture.
Experiment
Thank you for sharing Mervyn. Are these oil pastels or oil painting sticks? Pete
Possibly yes, I use commercial oil pastels and these together and use the term generically
They are oil paint sticks
@@MervB1 That senellier oil stick you showed us in the video is an oil stick not oil pastel. Is that what you’re calling an oil pastel? Also do these sticks dry once painted?
@@kimfox5071 oil pastels, oil sticks, whatever, do not really dry, they generally take about 10 days to touch dry, that is why most artist put them under glass. H owever Senelia do sell a fixer which is quite good, I've also used Crystal Clear with some success. Technically there is a difference between oil pastels and sticks, its just don't worry about the difference.
@@MervB1 my research tells me that actually there is a difference between sticks and pastels. Sticks have dryer. Pastels are just pigment and oil and wax they dry at the same rate as regular oil paint that doesn't have any dryer in it. Using this recipe with oil paint from a tube they probably will dry if there's a dryer in the paint. Richardson's Shiva paint sticks dry quite fast. The sticks form a skin that you peel or wipe off that exposes the creamy paint. Thin layers dry overnight. I'm attempting to figure out how to make paint sticks that dry using linseed oil and fast dry medium with dry pigment and wax.
silly question but where do you get empty cans from? I don't eat canned food.
stupid question use anything..
@@civine8232 Have a beer lol
Empty tins off Amazon. Ask a neighbor to save a can for you
I've missed commenting on or acknowledging some of your comments and suggestions ... apologies.
Dolly Suntrum, I can't see your comment to acknowledge it, but thanks and the idea of candy molds i a good one.
Thanks... I think
I think you're making oil sticks not oil pastels, right? Oil sticks use an oil - linseed or walnut - that dries. Oil pastels use an oil that never dries.
Simon Shawn could I replace it with linseed and walnut and get the oil stick in stead of the pastel?
fair comment
@@germisrich137 did you decide if you can make oil stick by using the linseed or walnut oil? I'm planning on trying this.
There is little difference in the end results, yes one has a skin and the other doesn't, both seldom dry entirely though the commercial pastels generally are touch dry after about 10 days. I use both together. Their are other recipes for 'oil pastels' around ... like to hear how you go, if you try them.
you made ''oil sticks' that will never dry by using paraffin oil, so what's the point?
Dear mervyn, thanks bro'! I have a realy important question...
Is this paint actualy dry on the canas at the end? Cause i have some oil stick paints that NEVER dry fully!
It is the wax and can vary with temperature. Best idea is frame them behind glass. I have never tried it but you might be able to store them in grease proof paper.
yaaaaaa
Is there a different wax mixture to paint ratio to make transparent sticks?
Just use a transparent paint. No white
Oil paint sticks or oil pastels?
Those are paint sticks but do some more research before attempting to make these. Heating up toxic elements like cadmium or cobalt pigments could really be harmful to anyone in the area if not properly ventilated.
How make it dry faster?
If you find out let us know. Being wax based I'd doubt that it really actually dries, but there are some sealants available. Sennelier make a good one.
Wasn't that a freezer you were using?
Yes, think you may have been correct, but a fridge will do.
where you put them to dry and for how long?
frank ... not sure I understand the question. The sticks are wax, and as such never dry. Much the same with the paintings made using them, however, the paintings usually take about 10 days to be touch "dry". Sennelier do sell a fixative for oil pastels that works well .... when exhibiting, it is advisable to mount the picture behind glass. After about 10 days the paintings are fairly robust. Hope that helps. If you are sketching you can stack them, not face to face ... maybe with some kitchen paper, or even plai clean paper separating each sketch. It I s a fairly sturdy medium.
yes im from Southamerica so i dont do well english jaja but no, i want to know what to do after you put all the mix in the aluminum molds when the will be ready to use thats it
frank OK .... Put them in a refrigerator or freezer for about 10 minute ... or the coolest place you can find 😀
I cannot find paraffin oil , the only stuff I can find is the stuff used in lamps at the hardware store , I am going to try linseed oil or coconut oil instead . I will write down my results
Judy Murphy ... vaseline, furniture oil will do, what you are looking for is mineral oils ... try a pharmacy
If you use tea lights you could skip buying paraffin and beeswax
Interesting concept
I’m gonna try this today. Parrafin from the tea candles is your mineral oil and it is wax ? So I’ll give it a go . I’m thinking it might just become a crayon. I don’t mind though I just want something thick and chunky to paint with
I'm confused. There's oil pastels and oil sticks. One has mainly wax the other oil. Very different look and feel. Which are these?
Yes there are ..... don't hassle about it, it is something/nothing just get in there and paint
With all due respect, mate, there are too damned many steps involved just to make ONE stick. However, you have quite a following I see, so more power to you. This is just too much work for simple me.
Fair enough :)
Do you have a simpler method, please tell us, I'm sure we'd all be interested ... not being sarcastic.
Thank You.......
These will be non-drying oil pastels, right? So not really an alternative to oil sticks...
These are wax based, while they dry to touch ( not recomended ) , they will harden after about 10 day but when they are ysed to create with (draw/paint) they remain lush and buttery. There are fixatives available, but artworks should be displayed under glass. If I call them oil pastels I get told to call them oil sticks and call them oil stcks and people want call them oil pastels. Call them what you will. But enjoy them.
I guess that's due to the small amount of linseed/walnut oil from the oil paint forcing the overall mixture to harden after it oxidises. I guess strictly speaking purists will say an "oil pastel" should contain only non-drying oils and an "oil stick" should contain only drying oils, whereas you use a combination! Is there a particular reason you do this, besides the convenience in the making process in using ready-made oil paint? I am interested in making pure oil sticks, so I will be diverging from your particular recipe, but there've still been some great tips here in terms of mould-making and just general inspiration. Very thorough tutorial - the way everyone should do it.
jonobrow ... be interesred to see your results .. thanks
Im gonna try some........Look Yummy.......I Do Not Have 10 bucks per color of giant oil pastels....I did get white and flesh in giant size to go with my still life set ...But if I can make the Giants my self.......Mabe Ill experiment with the mineral/linseed oils too..I have some oil sticks too...FUN and low cost To make My Own Colors.....!!!!!!
Im soo Happy..........