Oil Pastel

I use Sennelier Oil Pastels for all of my oil pastel work. Sennelier, based in France, possess a high pigment content therefore providing an excellent brightness and painterly / expressionist feel. In 1949, Parisian painter Henri Goetz approached Henri Sennelier, the famous artist materials manufacturer, about creating a wax color stick for his friend Pablo Picasso. Picasso, a long-time Sennelier customer and a frequent visitor to their store across the street from the Louvre museum, was looking for a medium that could be used freely on a variety of surfaces without fading or cracking - thus oil pastel was born. My personal Sennelier set consists of 50 original colors that Picasso had on his original palette over 70 years ago.