Joseph Cotes, “Portrait of Joseph and his Brother John Gulston” (1754), pastel on blue paper, mounted on canvas (all photos by the author for Hyperallergic unless otherwise noted) LOS ANGELES — ...

Pastel, that vivid yet exceedingly delicate medium, is at the heart of the Frick collection’s new show setting the contemporary work of Nicolas Party in dialogue with a portrait by 18th-century ...

It was under unusual circumstances that Dr Gajinder Oberoi decided to spend time on pastels rather than patient pain.

WILLIAMSTOWN — In the 1950s, Beverly Johnson Jaques would visit her “Grammy and Pop Pop” at their home in Greenwich, Conn., where a pastel drawing, "Portrait of Mrs. Cyrus J. Lawrence with her ...

A blend of texture, tone, and controlled layering shapes this charcoal and soft pastel tutorial for the Aisha portrait, ...

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John Russell created pastel portraits of some of the great minds of the eighteenth century, but one of his regular models was not a person. Russell spent twenty years studying the moon, and drew some ...

Ninety pastel landscapes, still lifes and portraits will fill Weems Gallery, Friday, Nov. 1, through Nov. 23. The Pastel Society of New Mexico’s All Members’ Art Show has landed in Albuquerque in time ...

Spanish artist Rubén Belloso Adorna creates huge portraits of striking models that look just like photographs. Photorealistic chalk pastels The talented Seville-base artists makes his artworks with ...

The Swiss artist Nicolas Party is both the subject and curator of Pastel, an extraordinary exhibition examining the under-appreciated, fugitive medium and its history. Artists make the best curators.