Besides oil portraits, she also works in pencil, charcoal, pastels and other dry materials. Oil portraits begin at $2,500 for a small head-and-shoulders piece; works on paper start at $500.

Judy Ledgerwood likes to use pastel colors and pearlescent shades, traditionally associated with the decorative arts, in her abstract paintings. "I try to use painting to empower myself as a female ...

Art Dealer van Gogh’s younger brother ... where to get his rotting teeth fixed. But his pastel portrait of Van Gogh shows a warmer, more searching glance. In reply, Van Gogh humbly offered ...

A Claude Monet pastel painting stolen by Nazis from a Jewish family during World War II, which vanished for decades only to show up with a Louisiana art dealer, was returned Wednesday in New ...

The Heritage Fine Arts Guild invites pet lovers and artists of all experience levels to “Paint Your Pet in Pastel,” a hands-on workshop with Linda French. The workshop will be from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m.