Uncover the secret behind creating a breathtaking soft pastel portrait with smooth blending and vibrant color layering. This ...

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 — ...

Case Antiques describes the piece as “pastel on wove paper bust-length portrait of a bearded man with vibrant blue eyes and piercing stare.” “The penetrating stare and psychological intensity of this ...

A Roman Catholic prayer card slipped between the portrait and its frame offered proof that this was an original Carriera. Rosalba Carriera,The Portrait of a Tyrolese Lady. The rediscovered pastel, ...

Having defined folk music and folk rock for a generation, Bob Dylan is continuing to build his reputation as a visual artist, with a show of pastel portraits at the National Portrait Gallery. Bob ...

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 ...

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 ...

Adirondack artist Diane Leifheit is spending a lot of time this year getting to know her neighbors in Saranac Lake. She's been drawing their... Jul 23, 2014 — Adirondack artist Diane Leifheit is ...

NEW YORK — No major artistic medium enjoyed so fast a rise into almost universal acceptance as painting in pastels, which are something of a cross between chalk and pure powdered pigments — pastels ...

For painters, printers, and drawers alike, the thirteenth annual South County Art Association open juried print, paint and drawing exhibition serves as a celebration of two-dimensional artwork.

In order to make large portraits of European elites, artists had to literally piece together pieces of paper, circumventing the limitations of their medium. LOS ANGELES — Eighteenth-century portraits ...