What is the difference between crayons and oil pastels?

<p>Crayons and oil pastels are two different kinds of coloring components used widely in art works. Every child usually start learning art by using wax crayons before moving onto colour pencils for schools to oil pastels and water colours for their art hobby classes and so on.</p> <h2>Pigments and Different Kinds of Colors</h2> <p>The coloring component is called&nbsp;<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pigment" rel="noopener ugc nofollow" target="_blank">pigment</a>. This is what is responsible for the color. Red, Yellow, Green and all the different colors are caused by this pigments. When pigments are mixed with different mediums, different kind of colors are formed. Mix pigments with water- you get water color, mix pigments with oil- you get oil paint, mix pigments with egg yolk- you get&nbsp;<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tempera" rel="noopener ugc nofollow" target="_blank">tempera</a>. With the component you are mixing raw pigments is called &lsquo;binder&rsquo;. Different types of colors are formed this way which are used by artists as per choice.</p> <p><a href="https://sketchstack.medium.com/what-is-the-difference-between-crayons-and-oil-pastels-15dc589b2908"><strong>Learn More</strong></a></p>