Oil stick
{{Short description|Oil-based paint sticks for drawing and painting}}
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.{{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}} 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.{{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}} 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.