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 400 paper. The origina...

Behind Pittsfield Township Hall near Saline, MI., there are nature trails and a pond fed by Warner Creek. Cosmo (my dog) likes to sniff around this area, f...

Mill Pond Park is located on the west side of Saline, MI. This pastel painting was created on Uart sanded paper with a variety of soft and semi-hard pastels...

Here's a pastel painting-in-progress that includes a change in the composition mid-stream. The painting is called "Meeting at Mill Pond." Originally, there w...

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 ...

Continuing with my Gallup Park series, here is a view of the Huron River neat the public boat launch area. There's a rather tricky feature of waterscapes lik...

Part of my new Gallup Park Series of pastels, this painting shows the abundance of water lilies on this stretch of the Huron River. The view is east of the ...

I've been busy lately adding oil painting to my painting activities and have not gotten around to blog much. So I searched for past blogs and found this one...

Working in the studio each day, I come across adjustments to work-in-progress paintings that I like to share with my pastel enthusiast audience. Hence this ...

I think we are done with this one! Now it doesn't hurt to let it "ripen" by leaving it accessible in the studio for some whim of a quick adjustment. I'll a...

A few more refinements. Interesting pointer regarding using reference photos. The water in the photo was too bright (high value) due to the camera's exposu...

At this stage of the painting, I am beginning to fill-in portions of the composition. Additional values are added in the shadier spots (mostly under the for...