While soft oil pastels are a classic choice for childhood portraits, heirloom photography offers a sophisticated take on 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 — ...

Whether you’ve never held a pastel or haven’t drawn since grade school, we all know that finding the right subject can be one of the hardest steps in starting your painting. Do you draw your own image ...

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Mar. 9—AMBLER — The next featured artist in Art in the Storefront is PhyllisDale Purves-Smith, who specializes in various mediums, including oil and pastel paintings and sculpture. The paintings in ...

Includes black and white reproductions of portraits by Alice Pike Barney from the memorial collection accepted by the Board of Regents from Natalie Clifford Barney and Laura Dreyfus-Barney for the ...

Geek Brush Studio announced a solo exhibition featuring the work of Sue Craig, one of Chelsea’s most prolific artists. The ...

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 ...

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 ...