August 17, 2011

Experimenting Again: Baby Oil & Oil Pastels


During our inservice a teacher said they used baby oil and Q-tips with oil pastels.  I HAD NEVER HEARD OF THIS?!?!?!  This morning during my planning time I finally got a chance to give it a try!  LOVE IT!!!!!  There are some things I need to work out about how many Q-tips to use, how to pass out the baby oil & how much to give each table..etc.  I'm totally doing this though!!!!

8 comments:

  1. NEAT! So I guess it blends it more. . . it's hard to tell from here.

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  2. Interesting - when I was a kid I remember using turpentine w/oil pastels but since we don't use turp in elementary art classrooms I've never tried it again - so I'll have to give this a try. COOL.

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  3. Looks great. Can you explain the process a bit more?

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  4. did the oil soak through the paper? I am so intrigued by the process!

    love your blog :) lots of cool ideas and inspiration!

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  5. Very cool! So, did you use the q-tip and baby oil to spread the oil pastel?

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  6. Never heard of that technique either - I'm going to play with it soon too.

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  7. I did this with my 1st and 2nd graders and they loved it! I got a bunch of little plastic cups from the school nurse (like the medicine dispenser that comes on top of a cough syrup bottle) and filled those halfway with oil and each kid used 2 q-tips. They colored their picture, then spread the oil with the q-tips. I used 60# paper and the oil soaked through a little, but not too bad. My room smelled so good after this project :)

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