Bob Palmerton Pastels

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

It was a hot, sticky July morning at the Pittsfield Preserve near Ann Arbor, Michigan. The grass was wet and the mosquitoes were circling...

The Ann Arbor-based AAWA will hold its summer exhibit at the Riverside Arts Center in Ypsilanti, Michigan, from July 5th through July 26t...

The latest landscape painting in my Pacific Northwest (PNW) series. This 12x16 pastel painting was inspired by a hike in the Hoh Rainfor...

The Great Lakes Pastel Society will hold its Members Exhibit at the Carnegie Center for the Arts in Three Rivers, Michigan. The exhibit w...

This is my second foray into creating a painting on the subject of searching for sea glass on Glass Beach on the Olympic Peninsula. It wa...

I recently visited Acadia National Park in Bar Harbor, Maine. The day was overcast with a misty atmosphere exacerbated by the violent At...

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

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...

Planning a landscape painting, from initial concept to sketch, value definition, underpainting and application of pastels, is critical to...

When I am not outdoors in one of my plein air painting excursions, I often take advantage of digital photography to enhance and complete ...

Earlier this month I posted this blog in which I chose among my collection of blues to complete an underpainting all in blue. Here was ...

My initial foray into plein air painting resulted in the painting below, "Wooley Park Stroll." As this painting sat in inventory I felt ...

On a hike through a nearby nature preserve last Tuesday, I followed a woodland trail and came across newly-sprouted gatherings of "Great ...

Spring has finally arrived in Southeast Michigan. Touring a local nature preserve with my dog Cosmo, I came across this scene, replete w...

If my regular blog followers have recognized that my blogging has become rather sparse, I blame it on this painting, "Woodland Waltz." It...

An enduring challenge for many artists is arriving at the name for a landscape painting. Personally, here are my opinions. I don't clai...

Monet said it all: "When you go out to paint, try to forget what objects you have before you...merely think, here is a little square of b...

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

Spring Break time is coming soon! "Season's Transitions" was inspired by a hike on the Chimney Tops trail at Great Smoky National Park. ...