At right, Alicia Sotherland holds photos she used to create herpastel painting, ‘It’s Not About the Bike.’ Pastel artist Alicia Sotherland will offer a painting workshopcalled ‘Painting Pastel ...

Grafton >> Animal portrait, pastel artist Josee Severino will exhibit her enchanting portraitures at Hunter Gallery of Fine Art for the month of August. A special reception for its new artist for the ...

Aimee Hoover’s pastel painting, “Barfly,” a portrait of an intense man sitting in a seedy little bar, was chosen for a show at the Palos Verdes Art Center when she was an emerging artist. And when ...

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 ...

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.

A pearl of wisdom that Cynthia Tassio once received about art has manifestations beyond the easel. An art instructor in Tassio's native Chicago remarked that painting faces was " just a series of ...