{{Short description|Oil-based paint sticks for drawing and painting}} alt=|thumb|A stack of Turquoise Blue "Pigment Sticks" in the factory of R&F Handmade Paints in Kingston NY ready to be wrapped. '''Oil sticks''' or '''oil bars''' are an art medium. Oil sticks are oil paint in a stick form similar to that of a crayon or pastel. Oil sticks are made by blending the oil and pigment with wax and pouring it into molds to form an oil stick.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.rfpaints.com/pigment-sticks|title=Pigment Sticks|website=R&F Handmade Paints|language=en-US|access-date=2019-08-14}}</ref> It is distinguished from oil pastels in that a drying oil such as linseed oil is used as the main binder whereas oil pastels use a non-drying oil as the primary binder.<ref>{{Cite book|title=The painter's handbook : a complete reference|last=Gottsegen, Mark David.|date=2006|publisher=Watson-Guptill Publications|isbn=0823034968|edition=Revised and expanded|location=New York|oclc=65518868}}</ref> Oil sticks can be used interchangeably with traditional oil paints to produce drawings, paintings, and sketches. Popularized in the 1980s by such artists as Jean-Michel Basquiat, oil sticks have become much more common in contemporary oil painting in recent years.
==See also== * List of artistic media
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Category:Visual arts materials Category:Oil paints