When the designer and photographer Sallie Harrison moved from South Carolina to Los Angeles, the colors in her work started to shift. “I used to hate pastels,” says Harrison, who as a tomboy growing ...

Any light color with a creamy softness to it (think lilac, baby pink, and powder blue) is a pastel color. Pastel isn’t just for Easter or spring. Wear shades like sky blue, lavender, and French butter ...

Stephen McRobbie’s indie favourites have spent 35 years rewriting the rules, inspiring subsequent generations – and finding unlikely stardom in Japan The Pastels long ago became a kind of shorthand ...

The French business La Maison du Pastel, founded in the 1720s, calls itself the oldest maker of pastels in the world. Margaret Zayer, a co-owner of La Maison du Pastel, at work last month in the ...

Many people may think of pastels as a medium for kids in art class. But at the National Gallery of Art in Washington, D.C., the "Touch of Color" exhibition celebrates the history of pastel from the ...

Pastels are sticks of colour that can be either soft and chalky, or oil based. Soft pastels or chalk pastels are made with a coloured chalk or pigment. Soft pastels allow you to blend and mix the ...

If you’ve been looking to upgrade your studio setup with genuine, professional-grade art supplies, we’ve just spotted an incredible deal on a medium with a legendary backstory. Right now, you can snag ...

The latest vintage-inspired trend designers are loving is 1950s pastel shades in modern homes. While a light-pink bathroom or mint-green kitchen was once seen as dated, designers today love the 1950s ...

Imagine if you could see the pen Beethoven used to write his Symphony No. 5. Or the chisel Michelangelo used to sculpt his David. Art lovers find endless fascination in the materials of artists — a ...