Oil Pastels - Impressionist Landscape Lesson

In this lesson we use oil pastels to create an Impressionist landscape with loose and expressive mark making.
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Photo reference and a step by step breakdown of the process...
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Related Drawing Courses...
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Materials used in this lesson include Sennelier Oil Pastels and Expressionist Oil Pastels on Canson Mi-Teintes Pastel Paper...(The following links below are affiliate links which means I make a small commission if you purchase.)

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[michellebeissel]

Your description is as artistic as your work. As is your choice of music. All three are deeply appreciated. I love the warm background of orange paper poking through here and there.

[halosunnah]

I've been searching oil pastel tutorial that is not too basic but still something I can understand as an ordinary person. Than I found you. This is the best oil pastel tutorial and presentation I've ever watch. Your video, music, instructions, and explanation are the arts itself. God bless you.

[jrightone]

I love oil pastels for their vibrancy and immediacy, yet have struggled to find quality instructional videos. Thank you so much for this one! Absolutely helpful in so many ways, I took down so many notes and am going to do this painting today!

[mellowbats]

This is the most beautiful oil pastel painting I’ve seen. I always wanted to try oil pastels, and this piece made me finally buy the sticks. Thank you!

[pupawupagus]

pastels are between purgatory and hell. 🙏🙏 i’m grateful for the video, and SUPER grateful you’re creating one of my all time favorite subjects

[passinthru]

So glad you added that bright orange red towards the end. I tend to be very detail oriented, so I see this medium offering an opportunity to try a more "loose and expressive" art. I didn't know about harder oil pastels. Thanks for the instructive demonstration. It was inspiring.

[tdelphia]

This is a fantastic demo and instruction! I've just started playing with oil pastels and this is incredibly helpful...thank you.

[JB-uqfn]

If I could like this twice I would. I have been struggling to use my new Paul Ruben soft oil pastels and this made a world of difference!

[nancyloomis]

I’m gonna give this one a go. I recently purchased 3 different sets of oil pastels. A Sennelier portrait set of 24, a Mungyo Gallery Professional set of 48 (highly recommend) and Paul Rubens light pastel colors set of 36. I really haven’t given all of them a real workout yet. However, I did a swatch design of the Mungyo set on a high quality Ampersand Gessobord (highly recommend) and it showed off this set in a fabulous way. Very smooth lay down and it“dried” to an almost velvet touch. The Paul Rubens “extra light” pastel color set included many lovely shades but many of the colors were so close that they were virtual duplicates. Using a small canvas board, I did a little abstract design. found them to be very creamy, but sticky and tending to roll up too easily into little bits. Then because they had so much white in them to get those very light colors, they looked a bit hazy to me upon finishing. The Sennelier set that I just swatched on some oil painting paper, had the same stickiness quality but with less little bits like the Paul Rubens. Sennelier oil pastels are at the top in reviews and recommendations and I think with more experience using them, I’ll probably enjoy them as much as the Mungyo. With Paul Rubens, made in China, their watercolor line enjoys very high ratings and is considered “artist/pro” quality. Not sure if that same rating can be extended to their oil pastels, (didn’t see a ton of reviews for this particular set on Amazon (70 4.5 stars or YT) but I’ll see as I put them into real use. The Mungyo art brand, and particularly their oil pastels, made in Korea, also get high ratings on Amazon (this set 1, 542 4.5 stars) and by artists on YT. And on Amazon, both the Mungyo and PR sets 2 sets are priced in the low $20 range. I paid about $52 for the Sennelier set (made in France) at my local fine art supply store...I think they were on sale...and that price or higher is the going rate. I intend to get a set of the highly recommended Cray-pas too. Thanks!

[mohammadmoklukarrahmanmuku]

Can't tell you what kind of feeling your painting gave me! But I guess it's most probably artistic and encouraging! Love your tutorials so so so much!

[shwetagarg]

Made this painting today with the help of your tutorial as im just 10 days old in oil pastels. It came out quite well. Thanku for such nice tutorial that even a beginner like me could make a nice art piece

[blacksun]

Sir, you've just totally redefined my approach to oil pastels... I'm starting to think differently ;) thanks a lot

[arwencore]

Thank you so much for helping us struggling artists out! I love your videos and the way they're made, so peaceful and calm.

[jadechoung]

I just got a set of oil pastels and I was unsatisfied by a majority of application techniques I was coming across on, but I loved your way of using the pastels. The texture of the applications came through and created a gorgeous appearance. Thanks for being so inspirational and giving easy to understand instruction!

[mieczyslawapascoe]

The painting is beautiful as are your creative process and commentary. Very enjoyable to watch. Thank you.

[viiIeiraS]

Using quarantine time to revive my passion for oil pastels 😃 Thank you for sharing your work. Absolutely beautiful 😀😀

[AlexandreDesane]

this is by far, the best oil pastel demonstration I've seen on youtube, thanks for sharing, I was looking for oil pastels techniques that don't use blending, the result is stunning!

[camposthetron]

Wow! Thank you so much for this lesson!

This is literally the first and only good oil pastel painting I’ve ever seen.
Every other oil pastel painting looks so amateur, I was starting to think the medium just couldn’t be taken seriously.

But your painting is so beautiful. It has all the great qualities of both oil and soft pastel. I just love it. I hope to see some more in the future. Thank you again.

[dessyedeeclark]

I had no idea how "new" oil pastels were as a medium, 1949. Nor did I know Picasso was the impetus. But 15 years later, I was introduced to cray-pas in the 3rd grade, in 1964. It was the first time I liked school. Wish I'd never walked away from art. Now enjoying them again. Thank you!

[tomeetomee]

i have to agree with Michelle here.
this was a beautifully produced lesson incorporating an abundance of information . i usually have to watch the lessons more then once to catch all the bits of info that you throw out there as you are creating the art. thanks, tom