Pastel is a bridge between painting and drawing. The finished pieces can look just as vibrant as paintings, yet the process to create them resembles drawing more than painting. Pastel paintings and ...

Every portrait begins with a clear vision, and this Leo Rojas drawing is built through a layered pastel and charcoal process ...

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 ...