Since January, Burkett, 64, of West Columbia, has created 19 pastel portraits of children. Using old grainy black and white photos she printed from the Internet, she has spent hours, dabbing on ...

WILLIAMSTOWN — In the 1950s, Beverly Johnson Jaques would visit her “Grammy and Pop Pop” at their home in Greenwich, Conn., where a pastel drawing, "Portrait of Mrs. Cyrus J. Lawrence with her ...

This portrait of Harold Alonza Black, painted by Richard Wilson, hangs in Black-Diallo-Miller Hall at the University of Georgia. (Courtesy/Richard Wilson) Facebook ...

By Maurice Quentin de la Tour, 1750. NEW YORK — No major artistic medium enjoyed so fast a rise into almost universal acceptance as painting in pastels, which are something of a cross ...

Working on paper, mainly in pastel, gouache, sometimes with watercolour and occasionally in acrylic, the urge to discover, as Johnson puts it, “how light and shade sit together” and “line ...