Do you want to know more about hard and soft pastels? Whether you are an experienced pastel artist or somebody who is completely new to the joy of producing art with pastels you'll find something interesting and useful in the information and advice provided on this site.

Topics covered include
- information about and reviews of different pastel brands and supports - with links to websites for all the brands of pastels
- two polls where you can vote for your favourite brand of soft or hard pastel
- learning about pastels - books about pastels plus lots of practical tips, tricks and techniques for working with pastels,
- links to the websites of pastel societies and leading pastel artists,
- blogs by pastel artists and forums where you can discuss pastel matters with pastel artists
- and much more!

My 'workhorse' pastels are now Unison pastels - made in the UK. 

Other brands of soft pastel that have been well used in the past (see left) include

• Rowney,
  
• Sennelier,
• Schminke and
• Rembrandt.

• Sennelier La Carte (previously known as Rembrandt and Frisk pastel card - used for a lot of my paintings
• Art Spectrum Colourfix board - in various colours, and
  
• Wallis Board