This live art-making class is inspired by a Chinese woodblock print from the Qing Dynasty, Birds, Flowers, and Bamboo from The Mustard Seed Garden. In this session, we will create our own versions of ...

Pastels are sticks of colour that can be either soft and chalky, or oil based. Soft pastels or chalk pastels are made with a coloured chalk or pigment. Soft pastels allow you to blend and mix the ...

This live art-making class is inspired by Charles Herbert Moore's watercolor Snow Squall (1865–66). In this session, we will use warm and cool colors to create a snow scene. Find the suggested ...

When the designer and photographer Sallie Harrison moved from South Carolina to Los Angeles, the colors in her work started to shift. “I used to hate pastels,” says Harrison, who as a tomboy growing ...

Halla El Shafe is recognised by the International Pastel Journal in 2016 as one of the top 10 pastel artists worldwide To talk of colours as an emotional force is arguably to talk of pastel. The ...

Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. Behind an old wooden counter in a shop in Paris’s Le Marais district, a woman in a light-blue shirt stretches ...

If you purchase an independently reviewed product or service through a link on our website, ARTNews may receive an affiliate commission. Soft pastels not only are more powdery than hard pastels but ...