Soft Pastel Colour Mixing: How to Avoid Mud
Why Is My Painting Getting Muddy? This might sound familiar to many pastel painters: you are working on a pastel
Are Pastel Starter Sets a Good Place to Start?
If you are not sure about buying loose pastel sticks and you are just starting out, and you see hundreds
Ranking Art Materials by Difficulty
I recently came acrosse a super funny video by amazing artist Sam Yang in which he ranked art mediums from
Best Pastel Brands
I thought it might be useful to write a blog post about all the different pastel brands available. Of course
A Couple from Pompeii
A new and very large full-figure funerary portrait relief has been excavated in Pompeii, in the necropolis just outside the
A Greek couple in Rome: Agathemerus and Myrtale
The Ashmolean museum in Oxford houses an extraordinary marble funerary portrait relief, depicting a Greek couple from around 100 CE. The
Where I Am At Now
Summer 2024 Many of my readers will know me as an artist as I have been art blogging and writing
Unison Pastel Review
Unison soft pastel are some of the most popular pastels in the world. They are made in the UK and
How to Paint with Soft Pastel
Soft pastel is one of the most exciting and versatile painting mediums I know. It has a long history of
Lace in Verspronck’s Portraits
Verspronck was born in Haarlem around 1601-03, although his exact birth year is not known. He learned his painting skills
Van Dyck’s Lace
Lace has long been associated with luxury and elegance, and it was a popular accessory in the fashion of the
Lace in William Larkin’s Jacobean Portraits
The lace used to decorate Elizabethan ruffs is either an early lace called cutwork and/or the slightly later reticella lace.
