A stack of Turquoise Blue "Pigment Sticks" in the factory of R&F Handmade Paints in Kingston NY ready to be wrapped.

Oil sticks or oil bars are an art medium. Oil sticks are oil paint in a stick form similar to that of a crayon or pastel. Oil sticks are made by blending the oil and pigment with wax and pouring it into molds to form an oil stick.[1] It is distinguished from oil pastels in that a drying oil such as linseed oil is used as the main binder whereas oil pastels use a non-drying oil as the primary binder.[2] Oil sticks can be used interchangeably with traditional oil paints to produce drawings, paintings, and sketches. Popularized in the 1980s by such artists as Jean-Michel Basquiat, oil sticks have become much more common in contemporary oil painting in recent years.

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  1. ↑ "Pigment Sticks". R&F Handmade Paints. Retrieved 2019-08-14.
  2. ↑ Gottsegen, Mark David. (2006). The painter's handbook : a complete reference (Revised and expanded ed.). New York: Watson-Guptill Publications. ISBN 0823034968. OCLC 65518868.
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