When the designer and photographer Sallie Harrison moved from South Carolina to Los Angeles, the colors in her work started to shift. “I used to hate pastels,” says Harrison, who as a tomboy growing ...

The latest vintage-inspired trend designers are loving is 1950s pastel shades in modern homes. While a light-pink bathroom or mint-green kitchen was once seen as dated, designers today love the 1950s ...

Each week, Mansion Global tackles a topic with an elite group of designers from around the world who work on luxury properties. This week, we look at how to embrace pastel colors within your home.

Fifth Street in downtown Loveland was abuzz Saturday morning as artists dialed into the creative process, hovering over squares of concrete with pastels, rags and water sprayers scattered about as ...

The French business La Maison du Pastel, founded in the 1720s, calls itself the oldest maker of pastels in the world. Margaret Zayer, a co-owner of La Maison du Pastel, at work last month in the ...

Pastels are sticks of colour that can be either soft and chalky, or oil based. Soft pastels or chalk pastels are made with a coloured chalk or pigment. Soft pastels allow you to blend and mix the ...

Many people may think of pastels as a medium for kids in art class. But at the National Gallery of Art in Washington, D.C., the "Touch of Color" exhibition celebrates the history of pastel from the ...