Oil pastels: discover a world of brilliant colors
A CONTEMPORARY ENVIRONMENT Oil pastels are a fairly new art medium. In the mid-1920s, the first soft cake was developed. Called Cray-pas, this soft pastel was considered an improvement on crayons. It wasn’t until 1947, at the request of artists Pablo Picasso and Henri Goetz, material manufacturer Sennelier set out to create a smooth, artistic-quality…