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A gas station and an aristocratic garden are aesthetically worlds apart, but in the paintings of Danish artist Luca Bjørnsten, the two share an equal level of beauty. Based in Copenhagen, Bjørnsten is ...

A strange, animal-like being appears in each of emerging artist Ronan Day-Lewis’s haunting, mystical oil pastel paintings. He calls this entity only “the creature.” The creature hovers at gas stations ...

Art lovers witnessed a visual arts session on ‘Oil Pastel Work on Paper’ by artist Tirthankar Biswas from Delhi. This was organised by Jawahar Kala Kendra’s ongoing ‘Online Learning – Children’s ...

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 ...