I finally opened up the box of Kawachi Oil Pastels from Tokyo, and they are even creamier and dreamier than they look. I haven't used oil pastels in years, but finally came to acccept that chalk ("soft") pastels are too dusty for me, and that oil is a better solution. And these... they are SO GORGEOUS!
I need to get to know them, so I'm trying laying them on thick (left), laying them on thin in linear ways (bottom), and blending with my finger (top right). Oooooooh, blending is so nice... I'm afraid I'm going to have to take on several subjects (including recent, improbably colored sunsets!) once I have a feel for how to control these.
