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 ...

Pastels come in two varieties – oil pastels and chalk pastels. Both are quick to use and easy to control. Chalk pastel are soft and can be blended with your finger or a cotton bud. Oil pastels are ...

A strange, animal-like being appears in each of emerging artist Ronan Day-Lewis’s haunting, mystical oil pastel paintings. He calls this entity only “the creature.” The creature hovers at gas stations ...

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

Saint Meinrad Archabbey Library Gallery, St. Meinrad, will host an exhibit of oil paintings and pastels by Iris Gentry from Oct. 17 to Dec. 2.