Harriet Ross Sunlit Floral Original — Signed Pastel, 33″ × 29.5″ Framed

Mon, 20 Oct 2025 03:59:08 +0000

A pastel is pure pigment in stick form—color without heavy oil—so it stays luminous when stroked across paper. The medium took off in 18th-century portraiture and was reinvented by Degas in 19th-century France, who layered and fixed pastel into finished works. That’s why florals like this feel so light yet saturated: you’re seeing near-raw pigment catching the light inside the fibers of the paper.