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Discover LudwigThe word 'pastels' is correct and usable in written English
You can use it to refer to a type of medium, typically used for drawing and painting, which consists of a stick of colored pigment mixed with clay or wax. For example: The artist created a beautiful landscape painting using pastels.
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pastels
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Plural of pastel
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Burberry did dusky pollen coats and there were pastels from Carolina Herrera.
Set in modern, sky-blue blocks, the 60 or so rooms are quite large and are decorated with Caribbean pastels on white.
Instead, "Lily" had to become his secret woman.Discretion suited her, as did the sunglasses and pastels she tended to wear.
Like Degas, he rubbed pastels over heavily textured paper; like Hans Memling, he painted portraits in severe vertical panels.
Wow! That's some model to emulate.James Allan Professor of law University of Queensland Brisbane* SIR – There is nothing wrong with America's right, and there is little risk in resisting with a cry of "hell, no!" Ronald Reagan, a charter member of the "right", eschewed pale pastels, expressed his conservative beliefs in no uncertain terms, and won 49 states in the 1984 election.
Impressionist painting is strongly associated with pastels and sunlight; Manet made his magic with black.
A winsome young lass in a floppy hat, gazing soulfully to the horizon in a windblown field soft focus, in pastels.
Iria Campos, a Zara designer, says Chinese women choose pastels to flatter their pale skin rather than the stronger colours Europeans prefer; but otherwise they have surprisingly similar tastes.Still, China will not be easy.
Moore's war drawings, which used pastels in contrasting hues to highlight the psychological effects of alienation and devastation, are almost as famous as his monumental sculpture.
He soon abandoned pastels but continued to make portraits in pencil and chalks.
Despite variables of media and forms of printing, a defining characteristic of prints and drawings is the way in which colorants such as inks, washes, pencils, and pastels become incorporated into the absorbent, fibrous texture of paper.
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