In 1949 Parisian painter Henri Goetz approached Henri Sennelier about creating a wax colour stick for his friend Pablo Picasso. Picasso a frequent visitor to the Sennelier store across the street from the Louvre museum was looking for a painting medium which could be used freely on a variety of surfaces without fading or cracking. Their collaboration produced Sennelier oil pastels.nThese pastels can be applied directly or mixed on support blended with a rag brush or your finger. Colours can be diluted with turpentine or mineral spirit.nbspnThese pastels can be sculpted with a heated palette knife after heating you can inlay into the moist colours pigments sand paper glass and much more.

Sennelier | Oil Pastel Set 48
$57.94