New work by Palo Alto artist Mary K. Stahl is featured in “The Gentle Landscape,” opening Monday at Portola Art Gallery. Stahl, whose paintings include pastels and oils, uses a representational style ...

Colorful artwork created using soft or oil pastels was recently on display at the THEA Foundation. The exhibit was a combined member show for the Arkansas Pastel Society and the Ozark Pastel Society.

For a relatively low-cost set of pastels, Faber-Castell’s are formulated with an impressively small amount of filler and chalk. These sticks have strong pigmentation that is subtle rather than blatant ...