Bob Palmerton 

I recently started a YouTube channel with pastel painting demos and painting tips. Before YouTube, I would blog about a painting from...

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

Glass Beach is on the Olympic Peninsula in Washington. And there are plenty of rocks to stumble over as one searches for sea glass. ...

The joy of being an artist is not so much the completed product as it is the process of creating the art in the first place! For this...

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

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...

In Pittsfield Township, Michigan, just south of Ann Arbor and east of Saline, there is a series of nature preserves (the "Pittsfield...

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

Early mornings on humid summer days bring out an ethereal veil of the landscape, with a hazy look that almost blurs the nearby foliage...

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...

Working on my Breezy Point series early this morning. Here is the reference photo, which depicts the Breezy Point lighthouse on the bay...

I recently re-arranged my pastel palette, which revealed an abundance of blues. So I thought I would take advantage of such a variety...

At Breezy Point, a beach community on the Atlantic Ocean in Queens, New York, early morning and late day brings out the most brilliant...

Updating a post from last year, I recently started an early spring landscape with an early morning clear "blue" sky. Capturing the...

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

Inspired by a cold late November afternoon on Michigan's Upper Peninsula, "Wind Chill" is a 21x27 inch pastel painting on Uart sanded...

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

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

Creating distance in a landscape is often achieved by muting the color as you near the horizon. You can also create a misty look to...

Accomplished artists have a distinct "style" about their work. At the Chicago Pastel Painters Biennial National Juried Exhibition, my...