#4 - Pastel for beginners (On different surfaces)
Oil pastel on different papers Oil pastel not only can be a bit messy but it’s also picky with surfaces. Although you can use it on smooth paper, it’s best on grainy sketch pads that can hold more than two layers of pastel. Even if you blend the oil pastel on smooth surface with a tool or finger, the colors still don’t blend as well as they would on a more toothy paper. This doesn’t mean though that you can’t use oil pastel on a smoother canvass, you can depending on the effect you want.