If meal prepping is your big goal in 2026, Kohl's has your back. The retailer is selling a beautiful 60-piece meal prep kit ...

When the designer and photographer Sallie Harrison moved from South Carolina to Los Angeles, the colors in her work started to shift. “I used to hate pastels,” says Harrison, who as a tomboy growing ...

As someone who's been drawing since I could hold a crayon, I've been through my fair share of graphite pencils, sketchbooks, and paint sets. I've tried dozens of different brands over the years, and ...

Imagine if you could see the pen Beethoven used to write his Symphony No. 5. Or the chisel Michelangelo used to sculpt his David. Art lovers find endless fascination in the materials of artists — a ...

Each week, Mansion Global tackles a topic with an elite group of designers from around the world who work on luxury properties. This week, we look at how to embrace pastel colors within your home.

Many people may think of pastels as a medium for kids in art class. But at the National Gallery of Art in Washington, D.C., the "Touch of Color" exhibition celebrates the history of pastel from the ...

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 ...

Pastels are sticks of colour that can be either soft and chalky, or oil based. Soft pastels or chalk pastels are made with a coloured chalk or pigment. Soft pastels allow you to blend and mix the ...

Pastels are often the first color group to come to mind when thinking of spring colors, but in 2025, we're seeing warmer and more saturated tones come to the fore. Indeed, designers are swapping ...

Kara Jillian Brown is the beauty editor of InStyle. She began her career at Well+Good, where she spent five years evolving from editorial intern to news writer to beauty writer. She earned a ...

Every year on the first Saturday in October, the sidewalk around the Arcata Plaza turns into a colorful art extravaganza. This year, Northcoast Children’s Services presents its 37th annual “Pastels on ...