The pastel medium has been around for several centuries, with roots as old as mankind.
An ever-increasing number of artists have since discovered the rich colors and expressiveness of pastel painting.

This app will let you create beautiful digital works of art, especially if you're a talented artist.
If you're not, iPastels will keep you entertained until you become one through practice and experience!
Simulating soft (chalk) pastels, oil pastels and color blending, the iPastels app tries to be as realistic as possible.

Actual pastelists can use iPastels to try out ideas and compositions before starting on a new painting in real life.
Beginners will be able to practise and refine their skills, without the added cost of pastel sticks and specialty papers.

One of the most widely used techniques in pastel is to use your finger to blend the colors into each other right on the paper, as part of the painting process.
Using iPastels, paint with different colors and then use Smudge (the finger) or the Cotton Swab to blend and smoothen the colors.
This produces amazing results!

Layers, which can be a real life-saver for digital artists, are supported in iPastels in a way that's very easy to use.
You simply choose whether to paint on the foreground, middle ground or background and that's it.


Use your left mouse button to draw or to select tool, size, weight and color.
Right-click (anywhere) or press Space to toggle the panels on/off, so you can draw in true fullscreen mode!
Press the Tab key to move the panels to the other side.

Click once on a color to select it. Click a second time to adjust it in a number of ways or to pick a new color.
Adjacent to the colors you will find buttons to switch between the different color sets.
Press a second time if you want to replace the color set with one of the default ones.

The work in progress is automatically saved between sessions, so you don't have to use the export function until your painting is completely finished.
Exported paintings can be found in your Pictures folder (inside an iPastels folder).

If you wonder what a button does, just hover the mouse pointer above it for a couple of seconds and a short explanation will appear.


* Intuitive user interface
* Layers support
* Realistic results
* Supports fullscreen and windowed mode
* Supports undo/redo