Spanish artist Rubén Belloso Adorna creates huge portraits of striking models that look just like photographs. Photorealistic chalk pastels The talented Seville-base artists makes his artworks with ...

NEW YORK — No major artistic medium enjoyed so fast a rise into almost universal acceptance as painting in pastels, which are something of a cross between chalk and pure powdered pigments — pastels ...

It didn’t hit Cheryl Peterson until she saw all 32 portraits leaning side by side against two adjoining walls in an art gallery on the campus of Virginia Tech. Her chalk pastel portraits of each of ...

Chalk and pastel -- Painting with pastel -- Robert Nanteuil and the prestige of painting in pastel -- "New heights': Joseph Vivien's large-scale pastel portrait paintings -- Making up the face: ...