Browsing Tag soft pastels
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Features & EditorialsUnison 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 ...
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DrawingThroughout 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 ...
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PastelsEver 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 ...
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Artist InterviewsShortlisted 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 ...
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Artist InterviewsAli 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 ...
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PastelsWe 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 ...
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PastelsSoft 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 ...
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PastelsAt 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 ...
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PastelsWhile 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 ...
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PastelsPastel 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 ...
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PastelsTeresa 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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PastelsThe contemporary pastel artist Michelle Lucking lives by the coast in North Somerset, where she spends many hours photographing the sea and sky in order to provide compositions ...
