"Flags of Our Fathers" pastel painting by Jacqueline Meyerson. How many times have we, as mothers, transported our children to a specialty class and hung around to bring them back home? Perhaps we ...

This live art-making class is inspired by a Chinese woodblock print from the Qing Dynasty, Birds, Flowers, and Bamboo from The Mustard Seed Garden. In this session, we will create our own versions of ...

This live art-making class is inspired by Charles Herbert Moore's watercolor Snow Squall (1865–66). In this session, we will use warm and cool colors to create a snow scene. Find the suggested ...

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 ...

Pastel instructor Patricia Reichert encourages her students to paint subjects that they love, knowing that they’ll then do their best work. Her philosophy has paid off in the exhibit, “The Color of ...

Daniel Greene’s soaring studio occupies the upper half of an old gambrel-roofed dairy barn in North Salem. Greene, who was relocating after three decades in Manhattan, recalls the first time he saw ...

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 ...

Here enters the dirty pastel palette, a spectrum that includes dusty rose, mucky light green, grimy ice blue and oxidized lilac tones. The colors, which can look like a pastel that has taken a ...