How To: stencil With Oil Crayons

Oil crayons are sold in art stores, stencil shops and at The Stencil Library .  They are an oil based paint in stick form. Turpentine, mineral or white spirit is the solvent that is used to clean your brushes and stencils afterwards.  The crayons have a protective skin on them which re-grows if the crayon has not been used for a while.   Break this by rubbing the crayon firmly onto a plate or other non-porous surface.  Use the plate as a palette and scribble the colour onto it.  Take up the paint by circling a stencil brush into the paint. Then apply the brush to the stencil.  You will need a brush for every colour that you are using.

If the surface needs to be varnished once the stencilling has been applied, wait a couple of days before doing so.  Stencilling with oils sticks takes longer to dry than stencilling with paint.  H.