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Unlike "soft" or "French" pastel sticks, which are made with a gum or methyl cellulose binder, oil pastels consist of pigment mixed with a non-drying oil and wax binder.

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The colors are dissolved in an oil medium, usually Linseed oil, which has a distinctive "painty" smell.

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They are made of pigment powders dissolved in oil.

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