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 — ...

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

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 ...

When you walk into a banquet room at the Maple Lane Country Club, your eye is immediately drawn to a portrait hanging above the piano. The subjects are the late Sam and Charlene Stillson, who had both ...

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 ...

The Museum is currently exhibiting a rarely-seen pastel portrait by John Singleton Copley, arguably the greatest portrait painter of colonial America. For the Bowdoin community, this opportunity is ...

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 ...

Who: Brenda Mattson of Norton Shores. Media: Pastels, oils and encaustics. Encaustics are oil-based pigments that are heated for use. The encaustic medium dates from ancient times and was used by the ...

The 72-year-old singer-songwriter has been exhibiting his artworks for the past six years, but these 12 new pastel sketches have not been shown before. The display is a departure for the gallery, ...

WATERLOO -- Artist Mark Fanning will be at Plaid Peacock, 316 W. Third St., from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. Saturday doing personal pastel portraits. Portraits will take approximately 30 minutes. Ages 6 and ...

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 ...