LUNENBURG — Jill Pottle, professional artist, loves to get lost in the moment, searching for that perfect brush stroke or that delicious color combination that brings her paintings alive. “I see the ...

Art Daisy Craddock’s Pastel Drawings: If Landscapes Could Talk If a dollop of paint or a chunk of stone could talk, might it reveal just how much it enjoyed having been scraped across a canvas by a ...

Remember drawing with pastels as a child? Those chalk-like crayons could always be counted on to lend a soft and diffuse effect to whatever you drew, from a dreamy landscape to a pint-sized portrait ...

"Pastel Landscapes," a solo exhibit of pastel paintings by award-winning Connecticut artist Elizabeth Rhoades, will be presented at the Richard Salter Storrs Library in Longmeadow through Sept. 30.

Two artists with a passion for pastels will share their love of the medium when Barrington’s White House presents “Double Vision: Pastel Landscapes by Kathleen Newman and Julie Skoda” on April 15. The ...

Aaron Schuerr has many descriptions to his name: artist, writer, actor, husband, and father. And while all have a certain distinction to them, one of those connects him to other people on a much ...

Many mornings find Terri Cribb studying the way light falls in her front yard and striving to capture what she sees using pastels. The Madison resident paints “en plein air,” which is the French ...

The first thing I saw was the light playing off a large body of water, and I thought I was looking at a beautiful photograph. Something in the scene — maybe it was the light’s reflection on the water, ...