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    Bob Palmerton Pastels

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    Nature will bear the closest inspection. She invites us to lay our eye level with her smallest leaf, and take an insect view of its plain.  - Henry David Thoreau
     

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    Fresh off the Easel: Heat Wave
    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 40...
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    Fresh off the Easel: Muggy Morning
    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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    AAWA Summer Juried Exhibit
    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 26t...
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    Pastel Painting: Exploring the Hoh Rainforest
    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 Rainfor...
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    Great Lakes Pastel Society Members Show
    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 w...
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    New Painting: The Beachcombers
    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 wa...
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    StudioSense: Toning the Dark Pastel Surface
    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 At...
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    Pastel Painting: Up North on Long Lake
    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 Wisconsi...
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    StudioSense: Fake Painting Tips
    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: Planning the Landscape in Pastel
    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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    StudioSense: Digital Tricks
    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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    StudioSense: Orange to Blue to "Green"
    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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    Pastel Painting: Morning Snack at Wooley Park
    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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    Pastel Painting: Tuesday's Trillium
    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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    StudioSense: Pastel & Watercolor Underpainting
    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 w...
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    Pastel Painting: Woodland Waltz
    Bob Palmerton
    • Apr 26, 2018
    • 3 min

    Pastel Painting: Woodland Waltz

    If my regular blog followers have recognized that my blogging has become rather sparse, I blame it on this painting, "Woodland Waltz." It...
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    StudioSense: Name that Painting
    Bob Palmerton
    • Apr 12, 2018
    • 3 min

    StudioSense: Name that Painting

    An enduring challenge for many artists is arriving at the name for a landscape painting. Personally, here are my opinions. I don't clai...
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    StudioSense: Seeing Nature through a Master's Lens
    Bob Palmerton
    • Mar 28, 2018
    • 1 min

    StudioSense: Seeing Nature through a Master's Lens

    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...
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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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    Pastel Painting - Spring Break and the Great Smoky Mountains
    Bob Palmerton
    • Feb 25, 2018
    • 2 min

    Pastel Painting - Spring Break and the Great Smoky Mountains

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