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  • Eye catchers july 2025 by lynn howarth feat

    Eye Catchers: July 2025

    I decided to select a wide range of subjects and styles which I feel reflects the wonderful breadth of works created and posted in this super talented Unison Colour Soft Pastelling Community. So here are my top ten Eye Catchers for July! 

    Lynn Howarth

    12th September, 2025

  • Very noisy waterfalls by peter force feat

    Very Noisy Waterfalls

    Someone recently told me they thought my soft pastel paintings of Norwegian waterfalls looked a little dangerous. That they looked punk. I’m not sure they realised how right they were. The way I capture the energy of Manafossen, Odnesfossen, Kjelfossen and all of the other fossen is to lock myself in the studio and turn…

    Peter Force

    15th August, 2025

  • Eye catchers june 2025 by gareth jones feat

    Eye Catchers: June 2025

    Thank you also to Stephen Fuller for passing on the baton, which has given me the opportunity to study all the contributions in more detail than perhaps I would normally find time to do!

    Gareth Jones

    28th July, 2025

  • My USA Travel Inspiration by Regina Hona

    My USA Travel Inspiration

    We all know that travel can provide us with some amazing memories, yet how lucky we are as artists to create and relive some of those special moments through our art.

    Regina Hona. AGRAF, PSVA-MP

    17th July, 2025

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    Eye Catchers: May 2025

    Stephen Fuller picks 10 eye catching artworks from the Unison Colour Facebook Community Group, during the month of May.

    Stephen Fuller

    2nd July, 2025

  • Read Tips and tricks for framing original pastel artworks by Tricia Findlay

    Tips & Tricks For Framing Original Pastel Artworks

    Framing original artwork is an essential step to protect it and showcase your art in the best possible way. When you’ve invested your time and materials into a piece, we all want to enjoy it for years to come.

    Tricia Findlay

    26th June, 2025

  • John herseys 100th birthday feat

    100 Hundred Year Celebration of John Hersey

    Marking a significant day at Unison Colour, on what would have been the 100th Birthday of John Hersey - the man behind our Soft Pastels! 🎂 To celebrate, we’re offering a 10% discount on the limited Centenary Sets, running until 2nd July. But that's not all... We also have a brand new set of 18…

    Unison Colour

    25th June, 2025

  • The first time i painted a chicken by peter force feat

    The First Time I Painted A Chicken

    If you can get one to be still long enough chooks make great subject matter. They’re self-contained vivid balls of colour and they have personalities. Chook eyes can convey a wide variety of emotions; fear, aggression, possibly even love.

    Peter Force

    19th June, 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.