Tuesday, 9 October 2012

Oil pastels and Halloween week - Gio

Hi, 
On this second day of our oil pastel week, Gio has used a technique some of you might have already tried with inks and brayer: The Joseph's coat technique.
You basically cover your base card with bright colours, then add a layer of black pastel and scratch the surface once dry to let the bright colours show through the black. It's a very effective technique and fun to try.
Why don't you have a go and let us know how you get on... Maybe for our calendar challenge on Sunday ? ;)




I cut a piece of white cardstock to size, then I covered it with a light colour of oil pastel (I used Faber-Castell oil pastel: Light purple pink). Then I covered the cardstock, layer by layer (with light strokes), with darker shades of oil pastels. I made 5 different layers, using black as last layer. Then make some doodles using a scratch tool or embossing tool. 
TIP
If you are afraid to hand-drawing, stamp lightly with white ink and then scratch the surface following the stamped image.





Gio used:
Faber-Castell oil pastels: Black, Burnt ochre, Fuchsia, Light purple pink, Purple violet, Van Dyck brown, Helioblue-reddish, Dark Cadmium orange
PaperArtsy Crackly tissue paper
Brilliance Dew Drop ink pad - moonlight white
Archival ink Plum


Our special off this week
10% off the Faber-Castell set of 36 oil pastels
enter the code PASTEL10 at checkout


See you tomorrow



6 comments:

  1. This is lovely! Such a fun technique! TFS!

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  2. Fab project and such a contrast to yesterday's. It's hard to believe you both used the same product.

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  3. Love the effect. It takes me back to when I was a child, we used to do this with oil and wax crayons!
    Juliaxx

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  4. Thankyou for the detailed instructions on this (though like Julia says, it does take me back to my younger days when we did something similar with wax crayons). I just love what you've done and am now looking forward to doing something similar. Wonderful!!

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  5. I love both tags, very original as usuals !!! And thank you for having used and explained this technique that I didn't know yet ! It's very interesting, I think I will try to see better the nice effects... Coco xx

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  6. Great technique again one I will try out love the finished effect thanks for sharing
    MaggieH

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