Tomato Still Life // Using Watersoluble Oil Sticks for the First Time!

I am so excited to share this project with you today! I’ve recently been getting into using and making traditional oil paint sticks and really enjoying them. I saw two companies (and the products might be the same) come out with water-soluble oil paint sticks, and I mentioned that I wanted to try them. My friend Ophelia sent me a set! How awesome and generous was that?!? I can’t wait to use these more and film a review of them. So far, so good!!

You can find a real-time version of this project in Critique Club. Membership is $5 a month and you get access to all of the long-format art lessons in various media I have posted in Critique Club over the last 6 years with your membership. It’s like Netflix for art! Please enjoy this art timelapse! I hope it inspires you to paint!

Supplies (affiliate links used)

• Soho Watersoluble oil paint sticks on Amazon or Jerry’s Artarama

• Lukas Berlin Water mixable oil paint

• Assorted oil paint brushes

• Stretched canvas 10″x10″

• Reference photo

• Other: colored pencils

• T Square or ruler

• Flat Compas (this is an awesome price right now!)

Do you want to paint more in 2025?

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