Every season has its colors. For example, pastels are typically associated with spring. While jewel tones and pumpkin spice shades are frequently linked to fall. It’s nice to mark the changing seasons ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

We all love the delicate flowers and budding leaves that come with the end of winter. Just like florals, pastels have become synonymous with the spring season, but not always for the most fashionable ...

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 ...

Claude Monet, now recognized as a pillar of French Impressionist painting, is best known for his shimmering works in oil paint, but his pastels and drawings are also transfixing, though rare. When art ...