Making use of soft pastels for observational drawing on location or in the studio can be an excellent addition to materials you may already be familiar with using. ...
On 9 May 2022 / By Sarah DyerUnison Colour was founded by artist John Hersey in 1987. Light and colour were a life-long obsession, and when he found that industrially made pastels could not give ...
On 27 September 2021 / By Evie HatchThroughout October, we asked four artists who specialise in drawing and illustration to try our drawing materials in their practice. Sarah Dyer, Jessie Pitt, Emma Carlisle and Michael ...
On 30 October 2020 / By Clare McNamaraEver wondered where to begin with soft pastels? Artist, tutor and art historian, Sophie Ploeg, explains the hardnesses of different types of soft pastels, their general applications and ...
On 27 August 2019 / By Tegen Hager-SuartShortlisted earlier this year for the Jackson’s Open Painting Prize 2019, Claire Cansick’s painting ‘Backwater Dream’ transports you to the balmy, tranquil environs of Kerala, ambling slowly down ...
On 5 August 2019 / By Lisa TakahashiAli Bannister won the People’s Choice Award in Jackson’s Open Painting Prize 2019 with her skilfully rendered soft pastel portrait of a regal-looking Spanish Horse. The detailed photorealistic ...
On 22 July 2019 / By Clare McNamaraWe were intrigued when reading Thomas Friedman’s review of Sennelier Oil Pastels on jacksonsart.com about his techniques using pastels, so we asked him if he’d like to explain ...
On 6 June 2019 / By Tegen Hager-SuartSoft pastels are a great medium for portraying light. British artist Les Darlow is a master of landscapes in pastel. He takes us through his process of painting ...
On 31 January 2019 / By Julie CavesAt Jackson’s we were really excited when Unison told us about their new dark soft pastels, very kindly associate artist Robert Dutton got in contact with us to ...
On 21 December 2018 / By Tegen Hager-SuartWhile looking over customer reviews we noticed Scott L Bleasdale’s comments on an Inscribe Set of 64 Soft Pastels saying that ‘the selection of colours was perfect for ...
On 27 November 2018 / By Tegen Hager-SuartPastel artist Liz Elsworth usually uses Unison and Sennelier soft pastels for her artwork, but she tried Art Spectrum Soft Pastels for the first time in her painting ...
On 1 March 2017 / By Julie CavesTeresa Allen, a pastel artist specialising in landscapes and seascapes, regularly uses Art Spectrum Colourifx paper and Colourifx primer. But she had not tried the Art Spectrum Soft ...
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