For Heidi Draley McFall, the fact that she can create large, pastel chalk drawings that look like photographs is secondary.

The chalk art installation is among several special events leading up to the solemn observation of the 20th anniversary of 9/11 at the Flight 93 National Memorial, where a ceremony will be held on ...

Two chalk and pastel studies of Leonardo da Vinci’s “The Last Supper” that once belonged to a 19th-century Dutch king will be up for auction next month. The portraits of the heads of St ...

When Tiessen draws a portrait, it goes beyond a snapshot of a person frozen in time and place. He looks into the soul and spins a narrative of the subject through the warm pastels and strong ...

At the Flight 93 Visitor Center Complex on Wednesday, Pittsburgh-based chalk artist Erik Greenawalt, known to some as The Chalking Dad, gathered with other chalk artists to complete 40 portraits ...

NEW YORK — No major artistic medium enjoyed so fast a rise into almost universal acceptance as painting in pastels, which are something of a cross between chalk and pure powdered pigments ...

In a Grand Rapids, Minn., art gallery, an exhibit of 22 chalk pastel portraits by artist Mary Myers Corwin depicts the many faces of man's best friend. Their sparkling eyes and noble expressions ...

Her chalk pastel portraits of each of the students and teachers who were gunned down by a student on April 16 had been stored at home and at school and taken at different times to get framed ...