Pastel Painting

Pastel painting has a soft, velvety look that comes from pure pigment being pressed right onto the surface. Colors blend gently, but they can also be surprizingly bold when the artist pushes the tones a bit further.

This section gathers painters who use pastels to capture light, texture, and small moments that feel almost touchable. The medium may seem simple at first glance, but its tricky layers and delicate edges show how much skill is really needed to make a piece feel alive.

Z.L. Feng | Pastel Painting

Z.L. Feng is a Chinese American watercolorist and professor known for portraits of Tibetans, Native Americans, and rural Southern families. He paints past pretty faces to find real character, earning hundreds of awards along the way.
Kurt Wenner | Pastel Painting

Kurt Wenner is the American artist credited with inventing 3D street art, a style he developed after leaving a job as a space illustrator at NASA to study Renaissance art in Rome. Pope John Paul II even commissioned one of his massive pavement paintings in 1991.
Peter Brown | Pastel Painting

“Pete the Street,” captures vibrant city life and landscapes en plein air, renowned for his Impressionistic paintings and lively artworks.
Tatiana Kashtalyan | Pastel Painting

Tatiana Kashtalyan is a Belarusian pastel artist and industrial designer who paints flowers, landscapes, and soft, layered color studies in her spare time. She has exhibited in Russia and now teaches pastel technique through an online school, with her work held in private collections across Europe and the United States.
Jian Wu | Pastel Painting

Jian Wu is a Chinese American painter known for realistic oil paintings and figure drawing, who moved to the United States in 1993 to study at the Academy of Art University in San Francisco. He has taught painting for more than 25 years and is a signature member of the Oil Painters of America.
Mark Boyle | Pastel Painting

Mark Boyle is an American plein air painter based north of Seattle whose work grows out of long hikes and backpacking trips through the wilderness he loves. Working in oil, pastel, and watercolor, he paints forests, meadows, and mountain streams on location, chasing the true colors of the moment.
Javad Soleimanpour | Pastel Painting

Javad Soleimanpour is a self-taught Iranian pastel painter born in Tabriz who has painted professionally for 25 years. Known for seascapes and portraits, he now lives near the Sea of Marmara and teaches at the Seven Art Gallery in Istanbul.
TaiMeng Lim | Pastel Painting

Tai-Meng Lim is a Malaysian artist born in 1976 who started painting at age ten and later worked in advertising before returning to fine art in 2011. His paintings reflect his own struggles and self-discovery, exploring transformation through experimentation with different methods and techniques.
Vicente Romero Redondo | Pastel Painting

Vicente Romero Redondo is a Spanish painter born in Madrid in 1956 known for glowing Mediterranean light and intimate figurative scenes in pastel and oil. He trained at the Faculty of Fine Arts of San Fernando and found his lasting inspiration in the coastal light of Costa Brava.
Marion Tubiana | Pastel Painting

Marion Tubiana is a French pastellist and wildlife photographer born in 1990 who has drawn since the age of three alongside a lifelong love of animals. Self-taught and working purely by feeling, she builds her paintings around the eyes of her subjects, believing that the gaze is where real emotion comes through.
Heidi Amenda Marshall | Pastel Painting

Heidi Amenda Marshall is an American landscape painter based in Michigan who works almost entirely en plein air, chasing what she calls the invisible landscape, her own emotional response to a scene. She trusts her first reaction to a place and lets that feeling, along with the shifting light and weather, guide each painting.
Florence Penouty | Pastel Painting

Florence Penouty is a French pastel artist who chases the movement of light across every landscape she paints, drawn to its power to transform even the smallest, most overlooked scene. She favors pastel for its speed and immediacy outdoors, letting each quick, vibrant stroke capture a moment of light before it changes.