Out with the old and in with the new!
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?
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Colourful Chronicles
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Free Live Workshop with Robert Dutton
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…
Plein Air to Pastel Painting
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.
Goals to Success – Thinking ‘SMART’ as an approach to art
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.
Happy Accidents?
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…
Portraiture and Unison Colour Soft Pastels
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.
Locked Down and Dirty
One of the good things about lockdown this year has been reducing the commute between me and my Unison pastels.
The Wheel of Fortune
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.
Entering the annual UK Pastel Society Exhibition
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
Painting Pastel Miniatures
Have you ever wanted to sharpen your mark making skills or improve your ability to simplify a scene to get the best composition? Both of these important skills will improve if you start painting ATC’s or Artist Trading Cards.
5 Day Pastel Challenge with Cathy Pearce
Unison Colour is very excited to bring you the next 5 Day Pastel Challenge, with Associate Artist, Cathy Pearce.
What makes a successful painting?
I recently heard this question asked and it got me to thinking. How do we define our artwork as a success? Success can come in many forms, but really, you will determine what success means for you.
