With these oil bars for artists, you can achieve a new approach to oil painting, enhance your freedom of expression and allow spontaneity.

Sennelier oil paint sticks are creamy, very lightfast sticks that can be used for sketching, painting or producing complete works of art on any traditional oil painting surface. With Sennelier artists' oil sticks, nothing must come between the artist's hand and the canvas.

Composition: Part of the oil has been replaced by a neutral mineral wax to give it the appearance of a stick. The colours are extra-fine: the pure pigments are ground with vegetable oils (siccatives), selected for their weak yellowing over time. The pigments chosen to make these oil bars are high in concentration and have excellent lightfastness. Solid extra-fine colours have opaque or transparent shades depending on the nature of the pigments used.

Supports: The oil sticks can be applied directly to a traditional surface for painting, versatile acrylic primed or oil primed; painting canvas, canvas board, prepared panels, or paint paper.

Directions: The solid oil paint that is an oil stick should be applied in reasonably thin film (do not exceed 1 mm). It is superimposable in the same way as the oil paint paste, and it may be diluted with petrol or turpentine. Before use, peel back the film on the surface of the oil stick. The latter will reform after a few days of non-use. Drying takes 2 to 5 days, depending on the thickness of the layer and weather conditions. There is a colourless medium that allows obtaining transparency and glaze effects.

The product keeps very well over time and does not require any special precautions apart from the need to avoid a source of heat that could alter it.

Final Treatment: Once dry, the paint is varnished like a traditional oil painting after six months of minimum drying, with a final varnish.