Category: Pastel, Conté & Chalk
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Eye Candy for Today: Adélaïde Labille-Guiard chalk drawing
Study of a Seated Woman Seen from Behind (Marie-Gabrielle Capet), Adélaïde Labille-Guiard Original is in the Metropolitan Museum of Art. A beautiful drawing by the 18th century French painter, and a wonderful example of the expressive possibilities for creating naturalistic portraits and figures in the “trois crayon” method of using three chalks — red, black…
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Lorenzo Chávez
Lorenzo Chávez is a painter based in Colorado who paints the American West and Southwest in both pastels and oils. His pastels have a nicely painterly feeling, and his oils have a textural quality that, between them, give both a sense of continuity of style. His work has a character of light, air and color…
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Miles Hyman
Miles Hyman is an illustrator, comics artist and gallery artist. Originally from Vermont, he moved to France to study painting and drawing, and there began his career. He moved back to the U.S. for several years and then back to France, where he currently lives. His illustration clients include the New York Times, the Boston…
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Jamel Akib
Jamel Akib is an illustrator, gallery artist and portraitist based in West Sussex, England. His range of style reaches from straightforwardly realistic to images composed of blazing shards of color, often with rough sketch-like elements of drawing incorporated with the more paint-like finish of key areas. Akib takes great advantage of the properties of pastel…
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The Colored Pencil Society of America
Like pastel, gouache and various drawing media, colored pencil is an artist’s medium that doesn’t receive the level of recognition its adherents would like. In part it shares the relative fragility and light exposure issues of works on paper (though materials are now being subjected to lightfastness tests), but largely colored pencil in particular suffers…
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Simone Bingmer
Pastel is a fascinating medium that traverses the boundaries of both drawing and painting. In the hands of portrait artist Simone Bingmer it falls into the latter category, taking on the refined appearance of oil painting, but with a textural surface quality unique to the dry medium. Bingmer lives and works in Cologne, Germany. She…