How To Use Pastel In A Sentence

She was carrying her overnight case and a basket of dried flowers-statice, strawflower, and immortelle in the pastel colors referred to in seed catalogues as "art shades": fawn, apricot, mauve, and pale yellow. Incubus
Talia's room, when we reach it and I actually take the time to observe it, is decorated in varying shades of pastel blue, more or less coordinating the curtains and the bed sheets.
There were brighter pictures, of early Mexican-Californian life, a pastel of twilight eucalyptus with a sunset-tipped mountain beyond, by Reimers, a moonlight by Peters, and a Griffin stubble-field across which gleamed and smoldered California summer hills of tawny brown and purple-misted, wooded canyons. CHAPTER VIII
On the wall alongside us was a tiled, tropical landscape of pastel cockatoos and parrots.
On June 15 at the Royal Lancaster Hotel in London, his original pastels will be auctioned, with some proceeds going towards children's charities.

The glass pavilion, designed by Dirk van Pastel, is in the western corner of a triangular site, surrounded by the woods and fields of Burgundy.
Off to the Charity Ball is a firm favourite, with its livid pastels against bright white, the skulking figures throwing dark, tactile shadows onto the projecting shelf below.
All three are quite similar with a pastel range of pink and purple flowers as well as white and cream.
Colour is important from dusky pastels through to the darkest hues.
After manipulating the digital image, Coderre then begins drawing the subject, or picture as he likes to call it, in oil pastel, wiping it away with turps, building up layer upon transparent layer.
I like the unripe, slightly salty melon of Vanille Galante, the cold lily note, the almost non-existence of vanilla, the pure, calm water in which the ingredients serenely flow, the pastel colorlessness of it all. Vanille Galante by Hermes: Perfume Review
But every day we see more pastel patches of red, purple, yellow, and pale green of swelling buds.
By the time we arrived around 1 p.m., though, even the greens were gone — but, unlike the Seattle markets, where eggs sell out post-haste, we still could have scored a basket of pastel beauties practically custom-laid for Easter. Vashon Farmers Market and La Boucherie
When people think of two-dimensional art, they usually think of work done in oil, watercolor, pastel or charcoal.
The living room was painted in pastel shades of pink and blue.
Mom wore large bifocals with Sophia Loren frames and a pastel polyester pantsuit that stretched over her abdomen.
In a caravan of unmarked coaches they went to La Fillon’s hôtel particulier, which was done up in the modern taste—rococo, mirrors, pastel colors, much white and gold, with rounded commodes by Charles Cressent, encrusted with gilt bronze. THE DIAMOND
Tuition includes pencil, pastel, oil and other painting techniques as well as sculpturing.
It works efficiently as a basic color and can be worn with pastels or brights as accents.
His pastels reflect hours of layering colour over colour and read with the intimacy of a book; they are sensual pieces as compared to his more temporal watercolours.
A big, majestic study for this sculpture, in pastel, charcoal and acrylic on brown paper, finds two shadowy birds alighting, and a ghostly doubled head, its mouth stretched painfully wide.
All are of a pastel shade, beautifully played by a quintet of bandoneon, clarinet, piano, bass and drums, one that includes Dino Saluzzi and Kenny Werner.
Some are touchingly intimate: my sister-in-law received a set of pastel-colored cotton panties from her middle-school homeroom students, and to my utter amazement was utterly unamazed.
Delaunay's bright, geometric gouache, watercolor and black crayon "Rythme couleur, Paris" (1966) is estimated at £20,000-£30,000; carrying the same estimate will be Otto Freundlich's cheerful pastel "Cosmic Rainbow" (1922). Tips to Starting a Collection
Also very summery are the whitewashed pastel cotton pants, bold cotton stripes and abstract floral prints and pinstripes on denim, cotton satin and viscose stretch fabrics.
The agent meets me outside the pastel-coloured Victorian villa, which sits on one of the area's most picturesque and leafy squares.
I think the former group needs our help, and the second group needs a big frosty glass of chill-the-hell-out with a kicky pastel umbrella.
The Edinburgh collection - 27 oils, prints, pastels and charcoals - is undeniably striking.
We dread turning into a lumpish, sexless gnome in a pastel sweatsuit, existing for the free cheese samples at the supermarket and owning too many mugs with funny sayings on them. Caroline Hagood: Flow: The Cultural Story of Menstruation
As his eye gives the impression of floating over the landscape, his liking for gouache over a pastel ground give what David Britton calls ‘an ethereal quality, where translucent layers of colour float over a solid base’.
The colored light falls on the painter's large areas of pure local hue and fragments them; it steals across his blindingly harsh white highlights and suffuses them with saturated and pastel hues.
The pastel colours, the detail in every scene, the crisp dialogue, are all a joy.
Manufacturers across the country are introducing lines featuring pastel hues ranging from white to peach, some of which are coated with a frosty finish.
In the tents one could see artists painting with watercolours, acrylics pastels, or demonstrating encaustic painting.
Company reports resemble glossy fashion magazines and the pastel-coloured web pages are frequently adorned with pictures of exotic flowers and fruits.
Instead we saw colonial buildings in pastel colours faded by dust and neglect. Times, Sunday Times
The whole game took about an hour to play, and was all painstakingly illustrated in the Potter style - all pastels and anthropomorphic woodland creatures, which is fine if you like that sort of thing.
In his own times he was known chiefly for his portraits in pastel, which are especially exquisite. Times, Sunday Times
Do I want an acquarelle or a pastel or photographs?
One thing you don't get with his pastel portraits is grandeur. Times, Sunday Times
A formal daytime wedding is when the bride wears a white, ivory or pastel colored floor length gown with a train and a long veil.
I saw Peter wearing a pastel blue cotton sweater, sheer and delicate-a very fine sweater.
Their dresses were pastel colours, with tulle, net, taffeta and nasty fake versions of all three, ruched and low cut. LOOKING FOR ANDREW MCCARTHY
Work includes pastels by a mad woman from Taree, photographs by someone who really shouldn't be seen in the nude, and a guy who is so past his prime it's just embarrassing.
At the same time, the awakening interest in international trends at the expense of the Irish landscape tradition and pretty pastel abstraction is revealing.
I wear khakis or black pants and pastel-colored long sleeve blouses.
She welcomes the mums who ask for blue, pastel green, pink and red eggs. Times, Sunday Times
Of the 25 paintings exhibited, most use delicate colors such as pastels, soft browns and soft greens.
Unless a person lives on a farm and tracks in mud from the path straight inside the door, white or any pastel will do just as well as brown or black. Something Nice
Their dresses were pastel colours, with tulle, net, taffeta and nasty fake versions of all three, ruched and low cut. LOOKING FOR ANDREW MCCARTHY
This year, flowers, such as peonies and mums, are on the script, as well as pastel colors - hot pinks, lime greens and oranges. LJWorld.com stories: News
Love letters would be in some flowery font like, ah, I dunno one of the script ones and it'd be in pretty pastel shades of pinks and lilacs.
The show featured a bouquet of oils, acrylics, watercolors and pastels and a mix of colorful springtime florals and landscapes.
There were two large, pastel yellow clusters of bananas on the counter.
The clean-shaven gentleman on the couch, with the excellent posture, the pastel golf shirt, and that strangely chaste yet fiery look in his eye?
True to a kids' art forms, I use pastels, pencil crayons and the great unsung medium of Jiffy markers.
He's a nimble, accomplished soloist and a sensitive accompanist, capable of pastel washes, shimmering folky chords or juicy bop lines.
The spatial projection is quirky, nearly orthographic; the palette is pastel-ish and the atmosphere pageant-like. The Times Literary Supplement
He uses a wide range of these pastel paints and although I didn't count them there must have been forty or fifty colours. Improve Your Landscape Painting
Blanding also paints landscapes and portraits in oil, acrylic, pastels and watercolor.
The rest of the class was able to blend the oil pastels on top of one another to create subtle gradations of white, grays and black.
The works include landscapes, still lifes, figuratives, abstracts and pastels, by approximately 75 artists.
Light yellow varieties, many shades of pink and delicate pastels need full sun to bring out the colorings.
In 1995 he published a complete catalogue of the pastels. Times, Sunday Times
Moiré and mother of pearl pastel watch faces in colours like pink and aqua and agate will also capture an iridescent feel.
A friend met me at the Ocean River Sports dock at noon; 30 minutes later, we crossed the runway and bee-lined for Fisherman's Wharf, a klatch of pastel-colored houseboats and floating restaurants on the edge of the Inner Harbour. Victoria, By Sea
The lighter, pastel shades are of a higher vibration - softer, more gentle and uplifting.
Some are framed, some unframed and there are works in watercolour, oil and pastel.
Try teaming with pastel colours and white accessories for a soft take on the trend. Times, Sunday Times
Soft pastels, worn underneath jackets or blazers, will be popular, along with cream, and teamed with flashes of bright colour.
Should it be pastels or bold colour? Times, Sunday Times
Dawn too was a light show with the sky flushed into pastel shades.
The trend has changed so radically that pretty, feminine summer dresses, hot tropical prints and sweet pastels look positively unfinished without necklaces, bangles, pendants and earrings.
They say It's a pastel yellow polish perfect for nailing the hottest trends. Times, Sunday Times
Soft pastels, worn underneath jackets or blazers, will be popular, along with cream, and teamed with flashes of bright colour.
Barney's art has a kind of rococo artificiality - he loves powders and pastels - that's theatrical rather than false.
The second movement's courtly elegance brought out the delicacy of the imitation through its vibrato-less, pastel shading through which every note could be heard.
The chalky pastel colours are really on-trend too. The Sun
Not only that, but the fracture zones were partially coated with a carbonate mineral that fluoresced a pastel bluish-white and phosphoresced a pale greenish-white.
Individually spray-painted in pastel tints of blue, green, purple, pink, orange and yellow, they suggest rays of prismatic light as well as gigantic artificially flavored popsicles.
The lobby is decorated in pastels.
You can spend your day meandering through the maze-like cobbled paths that are lined with picturesque Venetian-style houses painted in rainbow pastels.
Yes there are minor scuffs and abrasions to the pastel surface.
Their $2000-a-night lodge apparently contained such delights as '70s-style furniture, pastel shag carpets, an indoor sauna and Jacuzzi tub.
The lounges and dining rooms are immensely pretty, with parquet floors, pastel walls, white stucco decorative mouldings and painted rococo ceilings in the Tiepolo style.
Light yellow varieties, many shades of pink and delicate pastels need full sun to bring out the colorings.
Two catwalk trends - ladylike and pastel - collide to provide the saccharine effect you see here. Times, Sunday Times
One can choose from an array of bed or cushion covers available in cotton or silk satins in floral motifs in pastels.
Khaki, beige, tan, black, navy, and gray pants are the best options as these can be worn with pastel and neutral colors.
Having explored many different mediums including photography, oil painting and charcoal drawing, Andrya has returned to the softer look of pastels for this exhibition.
I saw Peter wearing a pastel blue cotton sweater, sheer and delicate-a very fine sweater.
Try water colours, acrylic paints, pastels and coloured paper, coloured modelling clay, ordinary air-drying clay, origami paper, rubber printing stamps and gel pens.
There's lots of pretty pastels and embroidery details on dresses, cardis, and jeans.
After the interval the soloist had changed from her strapless, formfitting glittering blue to a classical, double-tiered dress in subdued pastels.
They say It's a pastel yellow polish perfect for nailing the hottest trends. Times, Sunday Times
The rooms were decorated in delicate pastel shades.
He specialises in watercolours - finely-observed landscapes and street scenes in soft, pastel colours.
As his Debussy cycle for Onyx has gone on, it has become increasingly obvious that Pascal Rogé has little time for the common perception of Debussy as an "impressionist" composer, all pastel shades and dewy outlines. Debussy: Études
Set back from the road the hotel is reached through picturesque roads of characteristic pastel colour buildings.
Libby Gleeson's story is not a conventional one: Halfway through, her words die away, and we are left with only Armin Greder's haunting charcoal and pastel drawings. Rescuing a Classic
Classroom monitors hand out the pastels and Manila paper for the warm-up exercises.
Embroidered dresses in Swiss cotton from Kashmir in a host of pastel shades, chikan work from Uttar Pradesh and glass-embossed cholis from Gujarat and Rajasthan also entice.
They say It's a pastel yellow polish perfect for nailing the hottest trends. Times, Sunday Times
Since then, she has worked in a number of other media besides oil painting, including etching, lithography, watercolor, pastel, sculpture and tapestry.
In the second car came all the boarders, little ladies with pastel waves and bright anxious eyes.
Mamey cake with cream cheese frosting: Pastel de mamey con budin de queso crema Garlic and egg drop soup: Sopa de ajo
They watched as the bright colours of the sky faded and were replaced by the muted pastels of twilight.
Amid the lighter, pastel colors, she was a dramatic highlight; as intended, she was the cynosure of all eyes. ON A WICKED DAWN
Love letters would be in some flowery font like, ah, I dunno one of the script ones and it'd be in pretty pastel shades of pinks and lilacs.
There are lots of pastel colours in the Endora rage, but it also has striking monotone combinations, smart navy, warm fucshia and raspberry red.
Perky pastel colors top the graphic, symbolizing the rich, while the poor are on the bottom, represented by earth tones.
But the real emphasis of this book is in developing an understanding of how the body moves and the many media and techniques for rendering the human form: chalks, charcoal, pastel, fixative, watercolors and oil paints.
In the first section of this two-part exhibition, Brown's blunt strokes of dark pastel bristle at the edges of latent, embryonic forms and sweep across fields of grid-marked linen with the repetitive insistence of a burin cutting metal.
Obviously the designers are requesting everyone to be more optimistic through their various pastel colors: powder pink, light purple, peach and soft blue.
The older generation still wears classic pastel summer suits but for the young the uniform has changed. Times, Sunday Times
He explained the general rules of color composition in fresco, enamel, and pastel painting, showing how to use his wheel and chart together as a tool to select the appropriate color combinations for each technique. The Creation of Color in Eighteenth-Century Europe
Monochrome colour schemes were a strong fashion trend this year but pink is still a clear favourite, from the softest pastels to bolder coral and lipstick shades.
Yet, as on ‘Children's Waltz’ and ‘Lullaby’, the wave of pastel, hymnal harmonies are hard to deny on aesthetic grounds.
Prices range from £40 to £750 for Greenwood's soft pastels.
We passed one simple building after another, made of teak or covered with clapboards painted in pastel blue, yellow, peach or mint green.
Give your working wardrobe a style overhaul with this season's colour palette of pastel pinks, deep berries and cobalt blues. The Sun
A young nurse, in a trim pastel-pink uniform, comes in with coffee.
Upstairs, the six pastel rooms have dainty furniture and huge bathrooms with freestanding tubs. Times, Sunday Times
The gallery had an early work by Tuke and a pastel, but did not have one of the famous nudes on beaches paintings.
Because of the clement May weather, they were optimistically wearing pastel summer dresses. DEATH OF AN UNKNOWN MAN
You throw caution to the wind and amble aimlessly around fields bathing in inspirational pastels swaths that compel poets to compose poetry and Your inability to access the adumbral profundity of - Acephalous
From Byzantine mosaics to pastel impressions by Mary Cassatt, ‘mother and child’ as a theme in art has proven to be timeless.
While the fish are vivid and flamboyant, the corals are soft pastel shades: ivory and primrose, lavender and peach.
The menswear company has moved away from its association with pastel golfing jumpers and football hooligans and has, instead, branched out into baggy tracksuits and drainpipe trousers.
It was a lush, rich showing-a welcome maturation from the pastels and baby's-breath pinks and blues we saw in several shows last season. Forbes.com: News
Remember all those pastel suits that she looked great in? Times, Sunday Times
With the proper tools - paper, crayons, pastels, colored pencils, markers, pen and ink - we can all celebrate and explore our creativity.
I alternate the direction of these strokes, imitating the direction I use to apply the pastel in the first place.
Yes, one of the world's most unfriendly companies had transformed itself into a ‘friendly, open, trusted’ organisation simply by using lower-case letters and some pastel colours.
Soft pastels, worn underneath jackets or blazers, will be popular, along with cream, and teamed with flashes of bright colour.
She had long pastel blue hair; pale crème colored skin, and icy blue eyes that had no pupils.
Using gouache, acrylic, pastel, crayon and collaged paper, Judy's work is concerned with her direct response to light on landscape.
‘You can make colored pencils look like airbrushing, pastels, oils and watercolors,’ said Curnow.
Spanish tiling, pastel shades and walls partly of exposed stone and partly of wood panels create a stylish ambience without a hint of ostentation.
Feb. 28, 2011 marked the 25th anniversary of the release of "Pretty in Pink," the teen classic written by John Hughes about a thrift-store-chic girl (Molly Ringwald), a pastel-preppy guy (Andrew McCarthy) and the pompadoured geek (Jon Cryer) who wants to drive them apart. John Hughes and the art his movies inspired
I am cabable of doing a lot of stuff, sport i play cricket, qualifications I got sales and management, bookkeeping, accounts, call canter, pastel,, help me to get a job in SA or out side the country Undefined
After the war his painting lost much of its intensity, with pastel tones replacing the bold, sometimes harsh colours he had earlier used.
Hey, there are even pastels like peach and lilac this season, so nobody has to be a wallflower.
In Florida, a Cuban palette of pastels, flamingo pink, and salmon dominates fashion as well as exterior and interior design.
She explored new territory by turning her focus to flirty, light pieces in soft, pastel tones in satin, chiffon and graphic-printed silks.
Even Millet's use of pastels on tan paper or black conté crayon and pastel on paper changed the essence of the subject and his message.
The technique, which he said he invented, is based on the process of statically applying ground pigment and chalk pastel to several underpaintings.
Originally dull gray and about as shapely as a doorstop, phones became sleeker and slicker - black, aluminum, clamshell, and pastel.
My favourite is Appleby's quiet, almost pastel shaded image of a potter at work.
What stood out above all else were her flirty, soft dresses in tulle and chiffon in pastel colours which, for the most part, were embroidered with sequins and antique beading and iridescent insets.
The artists have explored colour and texture with a variety of materials from inks, acrylic oils, pastels and mixed media.
Its offices, decorated in shades of pastel yellow and tan, looked perfectly professional - even stylish.
Almost every girl under the age of 35 has a fake fur collar and a pastel-coloured parka.
Upstairs, the six pastel rooms have dainty furniture and huge bathrooms with freestanding tubs. Times, Sunday Times
The town was strung out along the shoreline, the pastel-colored buildings reminded me of a child's blocks.
In the oracle's back room, a long table was covered with butcher paper, on which pastels and watercolors were set out.
To help purchase the work, the MFA deaccessioned three related works - two Degas pastels and a Renoir painting - which sold at Sotheby's May auction of Impressionist and Modern Art for a total of $16.2 million.
If you can see past the fluff and the pastels, the story itself is a positive one of feminist revolt and the status of women during the La Belle Epoque era in Paris during the early 1900s.
Also very summery are the whitewashed pastel cotton pants, bold cotton stripes and abstract floral prints and pinstripes on denim, cotton satin and viscose stretch fabrics.
The horror of war and the enormous personal sacrifice it draws on cannot be painted in airy pastels. February 2005
They want to see the pretty pastel buildings contrast with flowering shrubs and bushes, and a pretty beach.
The show also featured earlier work: six canvases and four smaller pastel drawings.
In the tents one could see artists painting with watercolours, acrylics pastels, or demonstrating encaustic painting.
First and foremost, aim to colour your walls in lighter shades such as whites, creams and pastels, thereby avoiding the darker colours that dramatically reduce the sense of space inside a small room.
We next visited the island of Burano, where picture postcard houses line the canals in contrasting shades of pastel colours.
The only indefinite features in Degas's paintings and multi-hatched pastels are the gauzy skirts of his ballerinas.
We entered the interview room, which was uncomfortably hot, and painted an even pastel green that still seemed lavatorial.
The show includes more than 100 pieces, including pastels, drawings, etchings and several oils by Whistler and his artist-friends.
Moreover, it is often difficult to tell that a counterproof was taken from a pastel, because to the untutored eye the original pastel's surface remains largely unaffected.
To reflect this, and to evoke a sun-drenched atmosphere, a colour scheme of Mediterranean blues and soft pastels, with the occasional injection of Bordeaux wine tones has been used.
Butterworth produces a folder full of crayons, pastels, watercolours.
Alternatively, reverse colours, using dark green in feeder 1 and white or pastel colour in feeder 2, as illustrated.
The colors are pastel, the visuals are soft, and the characters are cute.
She, clad in a pastel pink boa negligee, and me ga ga. Maryjane Fahey: The "Absolutely Fabulous" Woman Who Showed Me The Way
The circular pattern is hand-embossed and quilted on totes and soft portfolio clutches in red, blue, pastel, black and white in patent leather, lacquered calfskin or a semi-opaque Nappa leather. Fresh Picks: Fashion News
How about some industrial lighting in fuchsia, or a kitchen gadget in pastel pink? Times, Sunday Times
No, wait - Eric, do we for some reason need horribly beflowered lampshades or perhaps pastel bathmats anywhere on the set?
Blanding also paints landscapes and portraits in oil, acrylic, pastels and watercolor.
After the interval the soloist had changed from her strapless, formfitting glittering blue to a classical, double-tiered dress in subdued pastels.
Shadowy figures moved behind the voile curtains, and fat pastel candles danced and guttered on every surface. TICKLED PINK
Tight fitting pinstripe suits are worn with pastel shirts in pink and blue and are finished off with cravats or wide ties.
He’s just about to say something in reply when his name is bellowed from a carload of guests pulling up into the space next to us and a small army of women in pastel suits clamber out and start mobbing him. Confetti Confidential
Instead of getting too lost in my suddenly changed world, I remember she was wearing a green and blue plaid dress with some pastel shirring on the bib area, black Mary Janes and blue tights.
Also, the pastel, leporine horror of Zombie Jesus Day has passed, and that's always a good thing. "Only mustard isn't a bird," Alice remarked.
I also like oil pastels and encaustic, but I am less familiar with these.
Grab up those pastels, crayons and colored pencils - it's happy times in the art room.
In 1995 he published a complete catalogue of the pastels. Times, Sunday Times
The trend has changed so radically that pretty, feminine summer dresses, hot tropical prints and sweet pastels look positively unfinished without necklaces, bangles, pendants and earrings.
Over the next two years he drew in a frenzy, creating more than 100 pastel drawings.
His medium was a mixture of acrylic paint and oil pastel, which he would make himself. Times, Sunday Times
Built from simple repetitions of geometric motifs and a limited palette of black, white, lavenders and soft pastels, they confront the viewer with a bold, graphic appeal.
When people think of two-dimensional art, they usually think of work done in oil, watercolor, pastel or charcoal.
For the first time, she did not show sculpture, just pastels and watercolors.
The pastels recall early works by Elizabeth Murray, Korman's contemporary.
Most important, she helped to secure almost $8 million in grants and loans to build new pastel-colored duplexes with running water, toilets and central heating.
They were angels and flowers, shaded in pink and blue pastels. Times, Sunday Times
I was wondering if anyone knows whether its nupastels are lightfast or not.
During the turbulent year of 1928, he created just four pastels of the park.
The floor is highly polished north Queensland hardwood, the lounges are beautifully upholstered in pastels and the walls support vibrant silks prints of the reef and rainforest by Sydney artist Lyndie Malan.
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