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Colourful Chronicles

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  • Eye catchers january 2026 with katy bailey feat

    Eye Catchers: January 2026

    There are so many ’beautiful drawings on here, such incredible skills, I also love seeing newer artists emerging, this group is incredibly supportive, and every contribution adds something meaningful to our collective learning experience.

    Katy Bailey

    27th February, 2026

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    Unison Colour at the Pastel Society Exhibition 2026

    The Pastel Society Open Exhibition is one of the most eagerly anticipated events in the colourful world of pastels each year.  Held in the grandest of locations (the Mall Galleries, London) in January, it showcases some of the best contemporary pastel artworks and artists in the world.

    Unison Colour

    5th February, 2026

  • Eye catchers december 2025 by cathy pearce feat

    Eye Catchers: December 2025

    Thank you to Stephen Fuller for asking me to choose the eye catchers for December from the Unison Colour Soft Pastelling Community Facebook group.

    Cathy Pearce

    26th January, 2026

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    Eye Catchers: November 2025

    I thought it would be easy to pick my favorite 10 posts from the Unison Colour Soft Pastelling Community in November, but how wrong I was!

    Rebecca de Mendonça

    12th December, 2025

  • Read Eye catchers September 2025 by Arild Frisnes.

    Eye catchers: September 2025

    First of all, I would like to thank Unison Colour for the honour of having the opportunity to be a guest curator of Eye catchers, my selection of 10 images posted on the Unison Colour Soft Pastelling Community Facebook Group in September.

    Arild Frisnes

    17th October, 2025

  • The featured image for Meral's blog.

    Eye Catchers: August 2025

    What a wonderful month of artwork showcased on our Unison Colour community page. I had the great privilege of being the August 2025 Eye Catchers curator, with thanks to Lynn Howarth. As a travelling wildlife artist, I am drawn to wild places that evoke emotion and draw me into a place that holds my imagination.

    Meral Altilar

    2nd October, 2025

Colour Chart Guidance

We believe the colours in our web based colour chart are a faithful representation of our pastel range. But with any colours portrayed on the internet, there’s a whole heap of variables which mean that what you see, may not be what we see. That said, there’s some things that can be done to mitigate some of the variance.

Mobile phone and tablet screens tend to be pretty good for colour, so they’re always worth using, when viewing our colour chart.

We hate to say it, but cheaper computer displays, including laptops, can be rather hit and miss, in both colour and contrast, so they might not reveal the depth of the colour, as well as the true tone.

If you’re really keen on getting your computer up to speed on colour representation, you can use a calibration device to reach your display's fullest potential.

With all that said, if you think we’re way off the mark with any of the colours then, by all means let us know, and we’ll give it another shot.