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

LUNENBURG — Jill Pottle, professional artist, loves to get lost in the moment, searching for that perfect brush stroke or that delicious color combination that brings her paintings alive. “I see the ...

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 ...

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.

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 ...

Understanding control and layering is what truly unlocks the potential of soft pastels in portrait drawing, and this artwork ...

Daniel Greene’s soaring studio occupies the upper half of an old gambrel-roofed dairy barn in North Salem. Greene, who was relocating after three decades in Manhattan, recalls the first time he saw ...

SAN FRANCISCO — When Furio Rinaldi was hired in May 2020 to become the new curator of drawings and prints at the Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco (FAMSF), the de Young and Legion of Honor museums ...

A portrait of Cecile Black Boy titled "Kills Instead" is a part of the “Connections – the Blackfeet and Winold Reiss” exhibit at the Museum of the Plains Indian in Browning. (Jeremy Weber/Daily Inter ...