I saw Tony Allain's pastels in a magazine a while ago and loved his work. I just now ran into his blog. Seriously, his work makes me ...

Pat Young, a member of Pittsburgh Pastel Artists League, gave a workshop today at 3rd Street Gallery . She talked about composition and show...

Click on the link so you can see the large version of this beautiful beautiful beautiful pastel painting by Jen Evenhus .

It's been a few months since I dug into the pastels. But since Bill Guffey chose Manhattan as the source city for VirtualPaintout , and ...

Margaret Dyer's pastels are great! Look at the hair here -- seven colors at least -- and yet it looks like hair. If I tried such a thing...

This is my April pastel pencil drawing for Bill Guffey's Virtual Paintout . This time we visited the Canary Islands. This funky apartmen...

Desmond O'Hagan is a great oil and pastel artist. I took a workshop with him last year and really liked it. He's a great teacher, v...

Oh my. Picture me bowing down, like Wayne and Garth. I have just discovered the person who is the embodiment of what I mean in my profile wh...

Jill Polsby organized a follow-up challenge/thank you to Karin Jurick for hosting and managing the year-end Different Strokes Portrait Chal...

With so many holiday things going on I missed last month's VP of Mexico City so I made sure to get my Corsica project finished early! On...

This portrait of Karen Hargett is part of the Different Strokes for Different Folks end of year portrait challenge. This may be one of my...

I attended a workshop taught by Margaret Dyer in October 2008. I love her loose style, yet everything looks exactly like what it is. Here...