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Colourful Chronicles

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

  • Stylistic pastel painting of a country lane.

    Reimagine

    For the past three months I have been immersed in an exciting project – to reimagine objects and subjects from Richmond Borough Art Collection culminating in a group exhibition at Orleans House Gallery in Twickenham.

    Bessie Millar

    26th April, 2019

  • Pastel painting of large wall of shelves, squared off, and filled bottles of whisky.

    Using Pastels

    Art is a very personal journey, and pastels mirror this intimacy. However, in this article, I’ll try to explore how I view and use pastels in an attempt to help and inspire others about this medium.

    Henry Falzon

    27th March, 2019

  • The pastel society exhibition 2019 main image

    The Pastel Society Exhibition

    On Monday 4th February 2019, we began our long journey down to London for the Pastel Society Exhibition. We had to make sure the precious cargo of Unison Colour pastel prizes were safe as we meandered our way across London on the tube. Those sets are heavy!

    Helen Bullock

    5th February, 2019

  • Brent emerson gugurrgaagaa kookaburra

    Welcome Brent Emerson

    Brent is based in New South Wales, Australia & specialises in Gamilaraay art. If you do not know what Gamilaraay means; they are Indigenous people of Australia whose land extends from New South Wales & Southern Queensland.

    Helen Bullock

    24th January, 2019

  • Unison Colour pastels, now available from Sir Gordon Bennett.

    Sir Gordon Bennett

    Sir Gordon Bennett is a destination where everything that has been designed & manufactured has been done so in Great Britain.

    Helen Bullock

    17th October, 2018

  • RS Weinblatt's work, featured in Chinese Gallery.

    Congratulations to RS Weinblatt!

    Congratulations to RS Weinblatt who is currently exhibiting in Tiyuan, China alongside none other than Andy Warhol! Rob is showing original paintings as well as silk screened silk scarves with his art featured on them.

    Helen Bullock

    12th October, 2018

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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.