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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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    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: "Rock Rumba on Glass Beach"
    Bob Palmerton
    • Apr 30, 2019
    • 1 min

    Pastel Painting: "Rock Rumba on Glass Beach"

    Glass Beach is on the Olympic Peninsula in Washington. And there are plenty of rocks to stumble over as one searches for sea glass. Thi...
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    StudioSense: Planning the Next Painting
    Bob Palmerton
    • Apr 17, 2019
    • 2 min

    StudioSense: Planning the Next Painting

    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 ne...
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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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    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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    Pastel Painting: Wildflower Wonders (and a special offer)!
    Bob Palmerton
    • Jul 26, 2018
    • 1 min

    Pastel Painting: Wildflower Wonders (and a special offer)!

    In Pittsfield Township, Michigan, just south of Ann Arbor and east of Saline, there is a series of nature preserves (the "Pittsfield Pres...
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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: Summer Morning Field
    Bob Palmerton
    • Jul 16, 2018
    • 2 min

    StudioSense: Summer Morning Field

    Early mornings on humid summer days bring out an ethereal veil of the landscape, with a hazy look that almost blurs the nearby foliage an...
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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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    StudioSense: Preparing a New Painting
    Bob Palmerton
    • Jun 13, 2018
    • 2 min

    StudioSense: Preparing a New Painting

    Working on my Breezy Point series early this morning. Here is the reference photo, which depicts the Breezy Point lighthouse on the bay ...
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    Pastel Technique: Monday Morning Blues
    Bob Palmerton
    • Jun 5, 2018
    • 2 min

    Pastel Technique: Monday Morning Blues

    I recently re-arranged my pastel palette, which revealed an abundance of blues. So I thought I would take advantage of such a variety an...
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    Pastel Painting: Resting My Wings
    Bob Palmerton
    • May 22, 2018
    • 1 min

    Pastel Painting: Resting My Wings

    At Breezy Point, a beach community on the Atlantic Ocean in Queens, New York, early morning and late day brings out the most brilliant co...
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    StudioSense: Clear Blue (and yellow, orange, pink) Sky
    Bob Palmerton
    • May 8, 2018
    • 1 min

    StudioSense: Clear Blue (and yellow, orange, pink) Sky

    Updating a post from last year, I recently started an early spring landscape with an early morning clear "blue" sky. Capturing the gradat...
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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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    New Pastel Painting - "Wind Chill"
    Bob Palmerton
    • Feb 17, 2018
    • 1 min

    New Pastel Painting - "Wind Chill"

    Inspired by a cold late November afternoon on Michigan's Upper Peninsula, "Wind Chill" is a 21x27 inch pastel painting on Uart sanded pap...
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    StudioSense - "One" Color Fits All
    Bob Palmerton
    • Feb 15, 2018
    • 5 min

    StudioSense - "One" Color Fits All

    In late December 2016 I visited Hot Springs National Park in Hot Springs, Arkansas, on the way to Arlington TX to see the Western Michiga...
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    StudioSense
    Bob Palmerton
    • Jan 19, 2018
    • 3 min

    StudioSense

    Working in the studio each day, I come across adjustments to work-in-progress paintings that I like to share with my pastel enthusiast au...
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    Pastel Technique: Adding a "Misty" look to the Landscape
    Bob Palmerton
    • Jan 4, 2018
    • 2 min

    Pastel Technique: Adding a "Misty" look to the Landscape

    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 conv...
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    Painting Technique: Defining Your Style
    Bob Palmerton
    • Dec 23, 2017
    • 2 min

    Painting Technique: Defining Your Style

    Accomplished artists have a distinct "style" about their work. At the Chicago Pastel Painters Biennial National Juried Exhibition, my aw...
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    Painting Technique - Planning the Painting
    Bob Palmerton
    • Dec 17, 2017
    • 3 min

    Painting Technique - Planning the Painting

    Planning the painting before you touch the canvas is a critical first step to a successful piece of art. My other artistic joy is photog...
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