Comments on: The Fates Have Conspired Against Me . . . And Oh Yeah, I Got A New Tool http://mona.myartbliss.com/post/the-fates-have-conspired-against-me-and-oh-yea-i-got-a-new-tool Art, Animals, and the Creative Experience Wed, 08 Feb 2012 11:04:04 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.3.1 By: MonaMajorowicz http://mona.myartbliss.com/post/the-fates-have-conspired-against-me-and-oh-yea-i-got-a-new-tool#comment-7447 MonaMajorowicz Fri, 21 Aug 2009 02:54:54 +0000 http://mona.myartbliss.com/post/the-fates-have-conspired-against-me-and-oh-yea-i-got-a-new-tool#comment-7447 Interesting, though what were they originally created for. Was it for pastel and Op or something else entirely? Interesting, though what were they originally created for. Was it for pastel and Op or something else entirely?

]]> By: Robert Sloan http://mona.myartbliss.com/post/the-fates-have-conspired-against-me-and-oh-yea-i-got-a-new-tool#comment-7445 Robert Sloan Fri, 21 Aug 2009 01:33:58 +0000 http://mona.myartbliss.com/post/the-fates-have-conspired-against-me-and-oh-yea-i-got-a-new-tool#comment-7445 I think they are silicone rubber. The white tip ones are Soft, the one you just bought is Firm -- which works much much better on oil pastels than the white Soft ones do. Blick also carries the black-tip Extra Firm ones called Clay Shapers. I bought a size 2 Firm chisel point one, the same one you've got, after I got a white size 6 pair in a pastel spreaders set for soft pastels, chisel tip and cone tip (taper point.) Then I got the size 2 set of Clay Shapers since I really wanted to try the Extra Firm and Blick didn't have them separately. The black ones work even better on oil pastels, though the gray Firm one works well with them too. I know eventually I want to get some large ones, like a set of the size 6 extra firm ones. The sets have all five shapes and some of the others are interesting too. Chisel is the most useful though, even though I wound up with all these others I use the Chisel tip one most. I stopped using the white ones on OP at all and they have gone back to being soft pastels tools. You can get one from Pan Pastels but that seems to have a Firm tip rather than Soft tip, it's the same color as the Firm one.and quite larger, closer to a size 6 one. I love using them. They rock for pushing the color around, blending soft edges, doing tiny details, they have a thousand uses with oil pastels. Including playing with the Senns and Holbeins when I'm using the somewhat toxic colors, then I'm not getting them on my fingers as much. I think they are silicone rubber. The white tip ones are Soft, the one you just bought is Firm — which works much much better on oil pastels than the white Soft ones do. Blick also carries the black-tip Extra Firm ones called Clay Shapers.

I bought a size 2 Firm chisel point one, the same one you’ve got, after I got a white size 6 pair in a pastel spreaders set for soft pastels, chisel tip and cone tip (taper point.) Then I got the size 2 set of Clay Shapers since I really wanted to try the Extra Firm and Blick didn’t have them separately. The black ones work even better on oil pastels, though the gray Firm one works well with them too.

I know eventually I want to get some large ones, like a set of the size 6 extra firm ones. The sets have all five shapes and some of the others are interesting too. Chisel is the most useful though, even though I wound up with all these others I use the Chisel tip one most.

I stopped using the white ones on OP at all and they have gone back to being soft pastels tools. You can get one from Pan Pastels but that seems to have a Firm tip rather than Soft tip, it’s the same color as the Firm one.and quite larger, closer to a size 6 one.

I love using them. They rock for pushing the color around, blending soft edges, doing tiny details, they have a thousand uses with oil pastels. Including playing with the Senns and Holbeins when I’m using the somewhat toxic colors, then I’m not getting them on my fingers as much.

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