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Unison Colour have joined up with Shop Keep Arty & are sponsoring a Live workshop with one of our Associate Artist’s Robert Dutton! Robert will be showing you how to create a pastel painting using various techniques during the 2-3 hour live session on the 21st July at 3.30pm (UK). Using the reference photo below,…
This month we're giving away 15 boxes of pastels in a free prize draw - 5 x 18 sets and 10 x 8 sets. For your chance to win one of the sets from our Starter, Landscape and Portrait range, click the link below. Terms and Conditions are at the end of this email. ENTRIES…
How many times however do we see something and regret that we didn’t bring paper and pencil with us. Not all of us can be like Toulouse Lautrec who could doodle on the menu card at the Folies Bergere.
How many of you have had a soft pastel painting/s, which are framed and possibly have been in an exhibition and / or galleries over a period yet are returned unsold?
Unison Colour have joined up with Shop Keep Arty and are sponsoring a FREE Live workshop with one of our Associate Artist’s Robert Dutton! Robert will be demonstrating different pastel techniques and textures during the free 1-hour live session on Tuesday 6th July at 2pm (UK). Using the reference photo below, Robert will demonstrate what…
As a pastel artist who loves to paint landscapes, sketching in my local nature reserve in North London is at the heart of my practice.
In the world around us today, for many, social media and the world of technology has changed how art is shared and experienced. This can be a blessing and a curse.
Several years ago, 2012 to be precise, my pastel painting took a side road off the path I had been following for a long time. We’ve all been there I think (we pastellists that is). A piece that went sideways because of various reasons: too many layers of pastel, the sinking realization the composition wasn’t…
My travels developed in me a love for the Human face in all its myriad colour and contours. People all over the world share a common humanity we seem to have forgotten. Merriment in a child’s eyes are the same in Iraq as Panama.
One of the good things about lockdown this year has been reducing the commute between me and my Unison pastels.
I have only come to pastel painting in the last two years, being a watercolour painter and teacher for almost a quarter of a century prior to that.
I have been smitten with soft pastels for well over a decade now. It’s a form of addiction really – the immediacy and vibrancy being so hard to beat
