WATERLOO, Iowa --- With a delicate hand, Barbara Heitzman strokes more pastel onto a nearly completed canvas. These are the finishing touches on a portrait of her grandson and niece playing ball in ...

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 ...

I like the color vibrancy and the fast results of pastels. I can produce an image in two hours,” Kathy Davis said.

Twenty years after creating his pastel “Lavergne Family Breakfast,” Jean-Etienne Liotard recreated it in oil, and it is astonishing to see how close the two versions are. Jean-Etienne Liotard, "The ...

Lamoine Artist Terre Lefferts will show her artwork in the Blue Hill Public Library’s Britton Gallery and Howard Room during ...

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 ...