Hours will fly by with an artwork that will surprise your child. Water-soluble oil pastels are a fun trick — starting out just like a crayon but melting together once they mix with water. This ...

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 ...

The colours of 18th-century pastels are sumptuously rich and vivid compared with darkened oil paintings of the period.

Shannon Kim found a $2 artwork in a pile of posters at an estate sale. She believes it could be a $20,000 Marc Chagall pastel.

Monet deemphasized his pastels during his life, instead preferring to project the idea that his oil paintings were done en plein air and not informed by previously drafted studies drafted beforehand.

More than 100 artists displayed their art in watercolor, oil, pastel painting, encaustic, sculpture, drawing, acrylic, mixed media and photography.