Understanding control and layering is what truly unlocks the potential of soft pastels in portrait drawing, and this artwork demonstrates that principle with clarity. The portrait is developed ...

Before the Second World War, Dresden was commonly regarded as Germany’s most beautiful city, marked by Baroque silhouettes and filled with cherished collections of the fine and applied arts. Then came ...

Famed impressionist painter’s lesser-seen drawings are the focus of a major new exhibition that invites us into the stages of his artistic process His luminous colours and sensual brushwork adorn ...

This Film Friday, we are highlighting the Analog Sparks 2025 International Film Photography Awards, showcasing diverse analog work from around the globe. This marks the third edition of the contest, ...

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The internet has a new obsession with AI-generated images and videos. Just as netizens were moving past the Studio Ghibli-style self-portraits, Nano Banana Labs, powered by Gemini 2.5 Flash, ...

The Casa Museo de Mijas is currently showing a mesmerising exhibition of paintings by self-taught artist Lali Casillas Salcedo, which runs until September 15. Casillas has gained a lot of attention ...

Based in South Staffordshire, she uses pastels and watercolour to make beautiful pet portraits. Katharine works from her studio, Skorkart, which is open to the public and based at Halfpenny Green Wine ...

As Luminous As Stars, an ongoing exhibition at Xinzhou Museum, in Xinzhou, Shanxi province, is showing dozens of pastel portraits of the personas featured in TV series Century Masters. [Photo provided ...

Michael Tebo is an artist living in Westminster. As a child, he liked coloring and got interested in art when he tried to draw using books by Walter Foster, an art instructor and writer. He learned ...

Spring is a time for optimism, renewal and dreaming of brighter days ahead. This year’s biggest makeup trend is all about pastels, which is a revival from the early 2000s. This time around, we’re ...