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I have managed to amass an enormous bucket of oil pastels, after years of students not putting their oil pastels "back to bed" in the slots of the box. Now, from rubbing together, there is a coating of grit and grime on each pastel, making it difficult to see which color is which.

Now, at the end of the year when I'm cleaning everything up, I can't bear the thought of throwing this entire bucket away, but they're so hard to use at this point!

How do you keep your oil pastels happy/healthy/organized/alive?

SH
robin On 6/26/13, SH wrote: > I have managed to amass an enormous bucket of oil pastels, > after years of students not putting their oil pastels "back > to bed" in the slots of the box. Now, from rubbing > together, there is a coating of grit and grime on each > pastel, making it difficult to see which color is which. > > Now, at the...See More
Jul 1, 2013
Lynn Try finding silicone molds and remt them
Jul 28, 2013
Eyzonart You can use oil pastals with wax to do encaustics. Even if you are unsure of the colors it will work fine. You need to shave the iol pastals into pencil like shavings and place them on the surface. I usually use masonite board. Shave the pastals and also shave parafin or beeswax and cover the color oil pastal shavings. Then take a piec of wax paper...See More
Jul 31, 2013


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