One of the hottest new tattoo trends of 2023 is “oil pastel” tattoos. It’s different, fun, childlike and looks like it was hand-drawn with a crayon-style oil pastel. One artist, Dahye Lee, also known ...

A full roster of new and ongoing art classes at Creative Ventures Art Gallery and teaching studio, located at 411 Nashua Street in Milford, beckons both novice practitioners and other enthusiasts to ...

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 ...

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 — ...

The acclaimed pastel artist and oil painter, started painting portraits of her own children ... by bribing them with candy ...

Understanding control and layering is what truly unlocks the potential of soft pastels in portrait drawing, and this artwork demonstrates that principle with clarity. The portrait is developed ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...