Bob Palmerton Pastels

My family's Thanksgiving holiday was (once again) spent "way up north, " traversing the Upper Peninsula of Michigan and Northern Wisconsin. This year, we re...

This is the final version of Early Sun, a 12x12 pastel painting done on an acrylic underpainting. You can read the blog about the underpainting here. What b...

I will often start a pastel painting with an underpainting of either watercolor, acrylic, or a wash of pastel diluted with isopropyl alcohol. My favorite is...

Continuing with my Gallup Park series, below is a view of the Huron River at Gallup Park in Ann Arbor, MI. The reference photo was taken in 2016 when autumn ...

When my son Matthew was in Cub Scouts in Saline, Michigan (early on his journey to achieve Eagle Scout), an annual ritual for the troop was to head out to Ca...

One of the joys of painting landscapes in pastels is the ability to quickly add dashes and spots of different color to express density and light impacts with...

Here's the completed version of "Lillie Park Vista,' started in the "Landscape in Pastels" class this January at the Michigan Art Center.

Working more blocks of value and color in the autumn tree painting, which i started at the Michigan Art Center landscape painting class. In this example, mos...

I could not resist painting this picked-over corn field in late September. The field is at the corner of Marton and Textile Roads, in Pittsfield Township, MI.