Pastel

The evening hours invite artists to play with underpainting techniques, palette choices, and color combinations to create the unique qualities of the dark.

As the seasons change, we tend to dread the transition to shorter daylight hours and longer periods of darkness, but theres a magical quality to a city street after dark, a breathtaking beauty in a nighttime sky, and a quiet tranquility to an interior room in low light. The 12 pastel artists featured here pages remind us that these later-in-the-day hours offer unique opportunities for capturing subjects and moods that are especially bewitching.