Traditional oil paint compressed into a stick and encased in wax. Once favoured by Picasso, oil sticks allow you to draw on to canvas with bold oil colour, and can also be used with a brush to create traditional oil painting brush marks.

Set of six artist quality 12ml oil paint bars. Includes the following colours, though colours may vary : 

136 Titanium Buff, 652 Light Perylene Bordeaux, 914 Manganese Violet, 438 Sepia, 407 Van Dyck Brown, 705 Warm Grey

The Sennelier oil sticks offer the same advantages as oil paint. The suppleness of use enables you to experiment with a variety of techniques. It may be handled like a pen. Contrary to oil paint, the drying process for the surface colour film is rather quick : usually it takes a day. You may overlap oil sticks on other lean paints. For instance, you may paint a backdrop with gouache and apply oil stick on it. Before using an oil stick for the very first time, peel off the thin dry skin in order to release the paint. This thin layer will form again after you have used it. Oil sticks' colours are miscible when using a thinner; in addition, they are quite viscous and offer unusual results. If you wish to diminish the intensity of a shade, use white. In addition, a white layout on the entire surface enables to maintain the texture and is useful for mixes.

Specifications.
Apart from your hand, you may use all kinds of materials to embellish your work. Because of its thick and pasty consistency, you may use large brushes, paint brushes, paints, matches or any other objects which would enable you to knead the colour