The beauty behind being able to blend with water is that you can literally scribble down colour with the pastels and wash it into a lovely ‘painted’ area.
You can also dip the pastels directly into water and apply them wet to your page. This gives a similar washed effect. The blue on the bottom half was applied with the wet pastel, the blue on the top was applied with the dry pastel. The completed page can be seen on the right. Now comes the cool part! Normally with oil pastels your page is going to feel slick and oily. With these pastels when you wash them with water this oily feeling will fade a bit but will still be there. HOWEVER—with these pastels you can heat set them using a heat tool. This has two purposes . Firstly it will dry your page. 18