Recently, soft pastels have been launched in a pan format so they can be used like paint.

There is nothing masculine about these new trouser suits in summer's soft pastels.

Coming into vogue is a new palette of soft pastels.

I take out a few pieces of soft white pastel and weigh them in my palm.

You can't miss it all the other buildings are painted in soft pastels; this is the only white building.

Without a fixative, the soft pastel is more likely to crumble in the user's hands.

Oil pastels are more stable than a soft pastel and do not require a fixative to work.

For a comprehensive list of fixatives, see my article on soft pastels in the October 1992 issue.

The face before me was rendered in soft pastels.

The ring was very dim - all soft pastel - and seemed more of an illusion than anything else.