A good portrait has some of the soul within ... Picking up what looks like a piece of pink chalk, Tiessen said pastels are more permanent than oils, if properly framed and handled.

Watch more than 200 artists transform city streets into vibrant masterpieces at this year's Denver Chalk Art Festival. Zoom ...

For Heidi Draley McFall, the fact that she can create large, pastel chalk drawings that look like ... It consists of six portraits, each 48 inches wide and 72 inches long, of women in various ...

It didn’t hit Cheryl Peterson until she saw all 32 portraits leaning side by side against two adjoining walls in an art gallery on the campus of Virginia Tech. Her chalk pastel portraits of each ...

Two chalk and pastel studies of Leonardo da Vinci’s “The Last Supper” that once belonged to a 19th-century Dutch king will be up for auction next month. The portraits of the heads of St ...

I have got some drawing pencils,some colouring pencils, oil pastels ... onand try a full-face portrait.Or change your materials. We've been using pencils and chalk, so why not try pen and ink ...

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In among the wavy mirrors and scuffed-up sofas, his attention was caught by a chalk pastel portrait of a young woman. “My first thought was that it was from the 1840s – a period that interests ...