Pastel drawing: ballet dancer, wheat field sunset, bowl of peaches

Soft pastel is pure pigment in a stick: a ballet dancer tying her shoe, a sunset over a wheat field, a bowl of ripe peaches. These nine paint each soft and blended, in bold strokes, and on dark toned paper. Ask for your cat or a vase of tulips instead and the same three handlings carry it.

• a bedroom or living room wall
• a sunset or nature print
• a dance studio gift print
• a still life kitchen print
• a set of three for a gallery wall

Frequently asked questions

What size do these print at?

Each painting is drawn at A3 proportions with an even margin, so it prints clean at A3 or scales to A4.

Can I get a different subject, like my cat?

Yes — the direction field takes any subject, such as your cat or a vase of tulips, and the same three handlings paint it.

What's the difference between the three handlings?

Soft blended smooths pastel strokes into a velvety gradient; bold strokes leaves the individual stick marks visible; on dark paper uses a black or dark ground so the pigment reads brighter by contrast.

Does this look like a hand-drawn pastel or a photograph?

These are drawn to read as a genuine pastel painting — powdery texture and layered colour — not a photographic image.

About toile

This page is a showcase and a starting point: nine samples already rendered, three readings of the pack crossed with three styles, each shown at the size and ratio it was made for. Take any of them further on the wall with a few words, or ask for all nine again under your own direction; a sign-in keeps what you make, and it is free while Toile is new. The recipe behind each sample — the subject, the style, the palette, the framing — travels with the image rather than staying private to the render: it is in the alt text of every sample and in the page's own structured data, so a search engine reads the same handles a person would.