Oil pastels give you vibrant colours and are rich and bright. Oil pastels have a waxy greasy feel to them but won't crumble like a chalk pastel. Pastels are a lovely medium to work with.

While wearing white after Labour Day may still be considered a sartorial slip among some, cold-weather pastels seem to have a pass. This season, several designers eschewed the muddy and moody ...

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 ...