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Aug 3, 2019
1 min

Fresh off the Easel: Heat Wave

A scorcher in southeast Michigan inspired by latest large pastel painting, "Heat Wave." Heat Wave is 18x24 done in soft pastel on Uart 40...

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Bob Palmerton

Mar 31, 2019
1 min

Pastel Painting: Hoh Rainforest

The Hoh Rainforest is a temperate rainforest located in Olympic National Park. This painting is part of my PNW (Pacific Northwest) pastel...

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Bob Palmerton

Sep 15, 2018
2 min

StudioSense: Fake Painting Tips

This blog article is an update to one published in March of 2018. The final version of the painting "Woodland Waltz" is posted at the bo...

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StudioSense: Seeing the Lake through the Trees

Bob Palmerton

Mar 24, 2018
3 min

StudioSense: Seeing the Lake through the Trees

Hiking in the Upper Peninsula of Michigan last November, I cam across this varied collection of trees: Since the photo above is rather b...

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Bob Palmerton

Feb 15, 2018
5 min

StudioSense - "One" Color Fits All

In late December 2016 I visited Hot Springs National Park in Hot Springs, Arkansas, on the way to Arlington TX to see the Western Michiga...

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New Pastel Painting - Woolley Park Stroll

Bob Palmerton

Jul 22, 2017
1 min

New Pastel Painting - Woolley Park Stroll

Woolley Park Stroll was started en plein air with my studio assistant Cosmo. Completed today, I decided to enhance some of the predomina...

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Pastel Technique: Impressionistic Touches

Bob Palmerton

Jul 17, 2017
2 min

Pastel Technique: Impressionistic Touches

On another plein air excursion this past weekend, I came across a bucolic early morning scene at Wooley Pary, just west of South State Ro...

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