I still remember like it was yesterday (although it was a few more years than I would like to admit), walking down the aisle of my local art store and picking up some pastels for the very first time.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
To be quite honest, I was young, ill-informed, but had creativity bursting at the seams\u2026<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Needless to say though, I was confused\u2026<\/p>\n\n\n\n
I had a friend in art school do some work with pastels, and I was always awe-struck by the results.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The vivid colors<\/strong> from such a small stick were amazing.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Double that with the light supply requirements (i.e. no huge H-Frame easel, tons of brushes, solvents, palettes, etc.) it was the perfect medium for me, a starving art student just trying to make ends meet.<\/p>\n\n\n\n But I remember something at that time, and one thing that I wanted to share with you today, wondering what the heck the differences were between soft pastels and oil pastels<\/strong>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n While both of these mediums are sold side-by-side, they are wildly different<\/strong>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n The only similarity that they share are the \u2018pastel\u2019 in their name, their stick form, and that they both contain pigments \u2013 that\u2019s about it!<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n In fact, knowing what I know now, I feel like these two mediums should hardly share the same name!<\/p>\n\n\n\n But alas, the art gods have spoken, and this is what we have.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Well, to help you through all of the confusion with these two very different (yet fun) mediums, we are going to dive into the deep end and take a detailed look at these mediums and how they are completely different from one another:<\/p>\n\n\n\n Table of Contents<\/p>\n<\/div>