Pastel painting

The term pastel painting can refer to two things: a painting that is painted in soft, light tones or a work of art which is created with pastel chalk. This is a soft chalk kind, which arise beautiful scenic drawings. The effect produced by working with pastels, can often looks like an oil painting. With pastels also bright, intense colors can be obtained, but usually when using this technique rather quiet, dreamy effects arise.

A pastel painting is usually a modest painting, soft, fading lines, making it very suitable as artwork on the wall.

At gallery Wildevuur you will find an extensive collection of pastel paintings of various subjects such as landscapes, nudes, animals or seascapes. Pastel is composed of different pigments, which are mixed with lime or gypsum, and then are pressed into chalk. Gum arabic or cellulose gum is often used as a binder in this type of chalk. When creating a pastel painting, the painter can rub the of nature soft pastels to achieve beautiful fading contours. Pastel chalk, moreover, has the advantage that it covers well. Therefore, a pastel painting can also be made on colored paper. This allows the artist to achieve a special effect, because the color of the underlying paper serves as a middle tone so that the pastel painting gets an overlapping hue.

We invite you to view our wide collection of pastel paintings by contemporary figurative artists.