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Pastels Pastels come in two varieties – oil pastels and chalk pastels. Both are quick to use and easy to control. Chalk pastel are soft and can be blended with your finger or a cotton bud.

Katharine Brieger is a long-distance runner whose abstract expressionist pastels depict her spiritual reaction to the outdoors. Based in landscape, her works are described by the artist as music ...

Artists who are naturally awkward in their own skin can go in a number of directions. Many, including a good number of The Pastels' 1980s “C86” indie contemporaries, are content to simply be musically ...

Hours will fly by with an artwork that will surprise your child. Water-soluble oil pastels are a fun trick — starting out just like a crayon but melting together once they mix with water. This ...

Some twenty seven years on, The Pastels commitment to this vision of pure pop is as strong as ever and Slow Summits is a beautifully nostalgic realisation of that vision. Their music has retained ...

Without the Pastels there would have been no Creation Records, no Jesus & Mary Chain, no Primal Scream. Slow Summits hinges on its penultimate cut, the lovely “Slowly Taking Place”. This measured, ...

Scottish indie pop group the Pastels broke a lengthy recording hiatus earlier this year by releasing Slow Summits, their first LP since 1997. Now, they've treated the album's "Kicking Leaves" to a ...