Sunrise in the Badlands
Sunday, June 26 2022, 4:15 am, Chamberlain, South Dakota. The evening's storms and their 70 MPH winds have passed, as we battled the...
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Bob Palmerton
- Mar 14
- 5 min
Pastel Painting Technique - A Lesson from Start to Finish
I recently started a YouTube channel with pastel painting demos and painting tips. Before YouTube, I would blog about a painting from...
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Bob Palmerton
- Jan 8
- 4 min
Fresh Off The Easel: Tracks in the Snow
Winter scenes have arrived! I visited Marsh View Meadow Park in Pittsfield Township on a sunny, late afternoon. The sky was clear and...
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Bob Palmerton
- Apr 22, 2021
- 1 min
Old Gnarly Charlie
My first plein air of the Spring season is Gnarly Charlie. Charlie can be found at Marshview Meadows Park in Pittsfield Township,...
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Bob Palmerton
- Mar 28, 2021
- 2 min
The Brown Family Massacre
Working on pastel landscapes of an often drab Michigan Winter, I find that my selection of pastels tend to favor browns. It's a shame,...
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Bob Palmerton
- 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...
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Bob Palmerton
- Jul 15, 2019
- 2 min
Fresh off the Easel: Muggy Morning
It was a hot, sticky July morning at the Pittsfield Preserve near Ann Arbor, Michigan. The grass was wet and the mosquitoes were circling...
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Bob Palmerton
- Jun 16, 2019
- 1 min
AAWA Summer Juried Exhibit
The Ann Arbor-based AAWA will hold its summer exhibit at the Riverside Arts Center in Ypsilanti, Michigan, from July 5th through July...
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Bob Palmerton
- Jun 6, 2019
- 1 min
Pastel Painting: Exploring the Hoh Rainforest
The latest landscape painting in my Pacific Northwest (PNW) series. This 12x16 pastel painting was inspired by a hike in the Hoh...
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Bob Palmerton
- May 23, 2019
- 1 min
Great Lakes Pastel Society Members Show
The Great Lakes Pastel Society will hold its Members Exhibit at the Carnegie Center for the Arts in Three Rivers, Michigan. The exhibit...
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Bob Palmerton
- May 21, 2019
- 1 min
New Painting: The Beachcombers
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...
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Bob Palmerton
- Jan 4, 2019
- 2 min
StudioSense: Toning the Dark Pastel Surface
I recently visited Acadia National Park in Bar Harbor, Maine. The day was overcast with a misty atmosphere exacerbated by the violent...
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Bob Palmerton
- Jan 1, 2019
- 1 min
Pastel Painting: Up North on Long Lake
My family's Thanksgiving holiday was (once again) spent "way up north, " traversing the Upper Peninsula of Michigan and Northern...
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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...
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Bob Palmerton
- Sep 13, 2018
- 2 min
StudioSense: Planning the Landscape in Pastel
Planning a landscape painting, from initial concept to sketch, value definition, underpainting and application of pastels, is critical to...
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Bob Palmerton
- Jul 25, 2018
- 2 min
StudioSense: Digital Tricks
When I am not outdoors in one of my plein air painting excursions, I often take advantage of digital photography to enhance and complete...
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Bob Palmerton
- Jun 19, 2018
- 2 min
StudioSense: Orange to Blue to "Green"
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...
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Bob Palmerton
- Jun 4, 2018
- 1 min
Pastel Painting: Morning Snack at Wooley Park
My initial foray into plein air painting resulted in the painting below, "Wooley Park Stroll." As this painting sat in inventory I felt...
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Bob Palmerton
- May 14, 2018
- 1 min
Pastel Painting: Tuesday's Trillium
On a hike through a nearby nature preserve last Tuesday, I followed a woodland trail and came across newly-sprouted gatherings of "Great...
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Bob Palmerton
- May 7, 2018
- 1 min
StudioSense: Pastel & Watercolor Underpainting
Spring has finally arrived in Southeast Michigan. Touring a local nature preserve with my dog Cosmo, I came across this scene, replete...
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