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I vote for the bears! That's a more fun sample to look at.
Once I started playing with the oil pastels, I had so many different shades of color to keep track of it was difficult to make any decisions. That was a new problem for me, as I never had an issue with deciding what photo oils to use - it just came easily to me, I guess. Oil pastels leave me baffled half the time.
Anyway, I eventually made a sample page, too - trying to keep all the reds, blues, etc., on one 9x12 sheet. A line, a block of color from light to heavy, with the name underneath it. I put each sheet in a loose photo album with a cellophane sheet cover and tied the album pages together with yarn for a little book. It's been extremely helpful to look at before just grabbing a random shade.
The bear it will be. This is the third or fourth iteration of Clyde.
I make a small sample sheet for the acrylics, watercolors and pencils. I'm not as detailed with the value range - I just make 1" x 1" squares with the color name.
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