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Soft Pastel Stories

Colourful Chronicles

Learn new techniques, hear artist's stories, and stay up to date on Soft Pastel News.

  • How long did it take by tracey maras feat

    How long did it take?

    The question that every artist hears at some point is “How long did it take you to paint this?”.  It can be a very complex question to answer.  Is the inquiry to determine the financial value of the piece?  Does the answer somehow determine the quality of the painting?

    Tracey Maras

    12th May, 2023

  • An interview between Stephen Fuller and Tricia Findlay.

    Interview With An Associate Artist: Tricia Findlay

    In today’s “Interview with an Associate Artist” we’ll be chatting to Tricia Findlay.  Tricia exhibited at the Tate when she was 15 but left the world of art for a number of years before setting up her own award-winning interior design studio.

    Stephen Fuller

    5th May, 2023

  • Broken Eggs soft pastel painting by Julie Freeman.

    Photography In Your Art

    Using a photograph as part of our process in creating an artwork has been around for centuries, whether as a reference or a projection onto canvas.

    Julie Freeman

    28th April, 2023

  • A blog about painting 'en plein air' by Regina Hona.

    Painting ‘En Plein Air’

    Painting 'En Plein Air' can be a little daunting at times, especially if you've never done it before, so let me put your mind at ease and hopefully provide you with the motivation to go painting 'En Plein Air'

    Regina Hona. AGRAF, PSVA-MP

    17th March, 2023

  • No space no problem by susan klabak feat

    No Space? No Problem!

    If you think you have no space in your home to set up a designated area to make art - think again! You could use any of the following locations...

    Susan Klabak

    24th February, 2023

  • Intro image for Stpehn Fuller's blog - Paradise Lost and Found.

    Paradise Lost And Found

    Our senses have evolved to filter out and ignore the majority of information around us.  Evolution is a very efficient thing; it doesn’t tend to waste energy developing anything that’s not essential to an organism.

    Stephen Fuller

    17th February, 2023

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.