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unusual facts about Pastel



Allen's Landing

In the late 1960s, Allen's Landing was home to the city's premiere psychedelic nightclub, Love Street Light Circus Feel Good Machine ("Love Street"), where bands with names like Bubble Puppy, Neurotic Sheep and American Blues performed mind-expanding music accented with strobe lights and pastel projections.

Gerrit Schipper

One of Schipper's most notable subjects was Sir Isaac Brock whom he painted a pastel portrait of whilst Brock was stationed in Upper Canada.

Konami Krazy Racers

From left to right:Takosuke, Nyami, Goemon, Dracula, Power Pro-kun, Pastel, Cyborg Ninja, and Moai.

Langlois de Sézanne

Claude Louis Langlois (13 June 1757, Sézanne - c.1845), known as Langlois de Sézanne, was a French portraitist and pastel artist.

Magnus Colcord Heurlin

Heurlin was known for his pastel palette and luminous skies, and influenced many later Alaska artists, such as Fred Machetanz.

Max Gubler

In 1956 he did a series of pastel illustrations for Ernest Hemingway's The Old Man and the Sea.

Microsoft Mahjong

The background image can be chosen from five different options and there are four tile sets, including traditional Mahjong tiles, variations with fuller coloring or larger print, and an alternative pastel tile set with an entirely different picture theme.

Navajo white

Navajo White is an orangish white color, or pastel yellow orange, and derives its name from its similarity to the background color of the Navajo Nation flag.

Oak Park, San Diego

Over the years, management changed hands and in the mid-80s briefly became The Grove and received a pastel-influenced makeover.

Orocovis, Puerto Rico

Other traditional festivals held at the city are the Infant Theater Festival in April; the Festival del Camarón in July; the Arts Craft Fair in September; and the National Festival of the Puerto Rican Pastel in November.

Pink Panther jewel

The pink diamond comes in shades ranging from a pastel rose, such as the Pink Orchid, to intense purple-reds such as the Moussaieff Red Diamond.

Raymond Sheppard

Raymond Sheppard Fellow of Zoological Society (F.Z.S, 1946); Society of Graphic Artists (S.G.A, 1947); Pastel Society (P.S., 1948); Royal Institute of Painters in Watercolours (R.I, 1949), British Illustrator (1913-1958) best known for the original illustrations of "The Old Man and the Sea" by Ernest Hemingway that he was commissioned to produce at the same time as Charles Tunnicliffe.

Rosalbino Santoro

Rosalbino donated to his hometown, pastel portraits of King Umberto and Queen Margherita, and of Bernardino Telesio.

Soul Company

In April, Soul Company held a joint concert with Pastel Music (파스텔 뮤직) and sponsored by Jin Air devoted to environmental protection.

The Chanur novels

They prefer delicate pleasures and pastel colors, their speech is exceedingly ceremonial and politically correct; they do not physically fight among themselves and their personalities are prone to change ("Phase") under stress, which has many legal implications.

The Green Odyssey

For instance, author and critic Damon Knight said in the November 1957 issue of Infinity that the book was a "pastel pastiche, superficial and generic, of Tarzan, Conan ... and heaven knows what else".

Tim Solliday

Using the pastel medium, he, Karl and Peter Seitz Adams went on plein-air trips to the local foothills, the Southland beaches, including trips to the ocean and the San Gabriel Mountains.

Une fleur

This Symbolist painting in pastel blues and pale flesh tones, it depicts a beautiful female nude reclining next to an assortment of flowers and holding to her head a small spray of two rosebuds.

Walter Rossiter

In 1918 after the Exhibition at the Pastel Society, Rossiter received a mention by the critic Ezra Pound on The New Age Magazine.


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