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 ...

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.

Teaching, listening, learning and creating. The Friday Pinhook Art Group is a gathering of artists who work in pastels. They move from easel to easel looking at progress. They are imaginative and ...

Kathy Davis is an artist living in Sykesville. When she was in sixth grade, she recalled being bored in class and doodling on her white sneakers. She got in trouble for that. Davis was not encouraged ...

Every year on the first Saturday in October, the sidewalk around the Arcata Plaza turns into a colorful art extravaganza. This year, Northcoast Children’s Services presents its 37th annual “Pastels on ...

Fifth Street in downtown Loveland was abuzz Saturday morning as artists dialed into the creative process, hovering over squares of concrete with pastels, rags and water sprayers scattered about as ...

Pastel paintings by local artist Lisa Carpenter Landis are on display through April at the Arcata Marsh Interpretive Center, 569 South G St. in Arcata. Landis — who moved to Humboldt County in 1973 — ...

Low-poly art has definitely been getting more popular over the last few years, which I only realised after a few of my ...

The medium of oil pastel empowers artists to create stunning and vivid art using a range of techniques. However, the choice of paper is crucial in achieving the best results. This article will assist ...