Watch this Zendaya soft pastel drawing come to life in a relaxing, step by step portrait process focused on smooth blending, realistic skin tones, and elegant detail. This video shows how to build a ...

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 — ...

Chalk and pastel -- Painting with pastel -- Robert Nanteuil and the prestige of painting in pastel -- "New heights': Joseph Vivien's large-scale pastel portrait paintings -- Making up the face: ...

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, ...

Rosalba Carriera, “A Young Lady with a Parrot” (circa 1730), pastel on blue laid paper, mounted to laminated paperboard, 60 x 50 cm (Regenstein Collection ...

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 ...

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 ...

The Butler Institute of American Art, 524 Wick Ave., Youngstown, on Sunday will debut an exhibition of Dylan pastel drawings entitled "Face Value," first shown at the National Portrait Gallery in ...

(COLORADO SPRINGS) — Local pastel artist Renée Vinson has spent decades honing her craft, but it wasn't until she began painting portraits of drag performers that her artwork found a massive audience ...

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 ...

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 ...