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.
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 ...
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 ...
Spanish artist Rubén Belloso Adorna creates huge portraits of striking models that look just like photographs. Photorealistic chalk pastels The talented Seville-base artists makes his artworks with ...
Veri Apriyatno Drawings on MSN
Soft pastels portrait art that reveals a powerful drawing secret
Understanding control and layering is what truly unlocks the potential of soft pastels in portrait drawing, and this artwork ...
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, ...
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 ...
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 ...
No fool, Algarotti relayed Carriera’s opinion of the Liotard work to the king: She had proclaimed it “the most beautiful pastel ever seen.” The king bought it, and eventually “The Chocolate Girl” ...
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