Bob Palmerton Pastels

The Ann Arbor-based AAWA will hold its summer exhibit at the Riverside Arts Center in Ypsilanti, Michigan, from July 5th through July 26th, 2019. The galler...

Glass Beach is on the Olympic Peninsula in Washington. And there are plenty of rocks to stumble over as one searches for sea glass. This 21x13 pastel paint...

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 next painting, I decid...

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

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 bottom. ______________...

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

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

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

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 the initial orange a...

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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 ...

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 convey the impact of rai...

Accomplished artists have a distinct "style" about their work. At the Chicago Pastel Painters Biennial National Juried Exhibition, my award-winning 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 photography, so I therefor...