The Pastel Journal

Pastel Journal covers topics of interest to working pastelists as well as those who work in pastel as an additional medium along with those who are just experimenting with the medium.

Night Watch

The Pastel Journal

The Korean Pastel Artists Association’s 30th Annual Exhibition • After steadily growing the local interest in pastel, KPAA celebrates with its 30th annual exhibition.

How to Overcome Inertia • Sometimes, when creative inspiration dims, it can be hard to stay motivated. It can be one of the most difficult hurdles for an artist. Artist Christine Swann offers these tips to help you turn off the TV, bypass the kitchen, step over the laundry, and get back to the work you love.

Finding Harmony

The Trouble With Green • Learn how to use this versatile, but sometimes challenging, secondary color to great effect.

QUICK TIPS

The Inevitable Mlle Gonzalès • Éva Gonzalès, Manet’s only pupil, proved to be a masterful pastel painter.

Operation Rescue • Try one or more of these seven resuscitative ideas for breathing new life into a failing painting.

BEFORE & AFTER • Whether it’s a home improvement project, a style do-over or a painting reboot, everyone loves a good makeover. Here are the in-need-of-help “befores” of three of my paintings—and the steps I took to achieve their happily ever “afters.”

Art After Dark • THE EVENING HOURS INVITE ARTISTS TO PLAY WITH UNDERPAINTING TECHNIQUES, PALETTE CHOICES AND COLOR COMBINATIONS TO CREATE THE UNIQUE QUALITIES OF THE DARK.

Moving Mountains of Color • IN THE LANDSCAPE WORLDS CREATED BY CLIVE TYLER, COLOR AND DESIGN COMBINE TO CREATE SPACES THAT EXUDE AN INTIMATE SENSE OF FAMILIARITY.

Aspens In Every Season

The Search for Meaning • PHILOSOPHER-ARTIST CLAUDIA BIÇEN ADDRESSES AN AGE-OLD QUESTION THROUGH HER COMPELLING PORTRAITURE WORK.

PEOPLE ON PAPER

Thoughts in Passing

Finding Success in Variety • NEW ZEALAND ARTIST JULIE FREEMAN TAKES A PHOTOREALISTIC APPROACH TO MANY DIFFERENT SUBJECTS TO CONVEY THE COUNTRY’S VAST BEAUTY.

8 TOOLS OF THE TRADE

demonstration Wavering Light

The Making of Treasures • A LEGEND IN HER OWN TIME, KITTY WALLIS—ARTIST, INSTRUCTOR AND ENTREPRENEUR—CONTINUES TO HAVE A DYNAMIC IMPACT AND INSPIRATIONAL INFLUENCE IN THE WORLD OF PASTEL.

WORKING ON WALLIS WHITE

Paint With Intention