StudioSense: Capturing Texture
At a Landscape in Pastel class I taught at the Michigan Art Center, we spent some time reviewing the variety of tree trunk textures and...
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Bob Palmerton
- Mar 14, 2022
- 5 min
Pastel Painting Technique - A Lesson from Start to Finish
I recently started a YouTube channel with pastel painting demos and painting tips. Before YouTube, I would blog about a painting from...
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Bob Palmerton
- Apr 22, 2021
- 1 min
Old Gnarly Charlie
My first plein air of the Spring season is Gnarly Charlie. Charlie can be found at Marshview Meadows Park in Pittsfield Township,...
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Bob Palmerton
- Mar 28, 2021
- 2 min
The Brown Family Massacre
Working on pastel landscapes of an often drab Michigan Winter, I find that my selection of pastels tend to favor browns. It's a shame,...
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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...
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Bob Palmerton
- Jun 21, 2019
- 1 min
The Sultry Days of Summer
Just north of Brighton, Michigan on the northbound lanes of US 23, there's a vista on the right, depicting a stream winding through a...
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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...
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Bob Palmerton
- Apr 23, 2019
- 1 min
Pastel Painting: Glimpse of Spring at the Buttonwood Marsh
A quick impressionistic study completed before the rain and wind engulfed my plein air site! Marsh Meadow View Park, Pittsfield Township,...
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Bob Palmerton
- Apr 9, 2019
- 1 min
Pastel Painting: Under the Pines at Lake Quinault
Traveling through Olympic National Forest, I came upon this spot on Lake Quinault. Pastel painting, 9x12, done on Uart 320 grade paper....
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Bob Palmerton
- Feb 5, 2019
- 2 min
StudioSense: Acrylic Opposites
Starting a painting entitled "The Clearing," I chose to build up an under-painting of acrylic. The colors I chose are (in general) the...
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Bob Palmerton
- Nov 6, 2018
- 2 min
StudioSense: Starting a Pastel Painting
As the weather turns for the worst in Michigan, it is time to revisit my collection of photographs that I use as inspiration and...
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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...
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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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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...
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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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Bob Palmerton
- Jul 10, 2018
- 2 min
StudioSense: Capturing Texture
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...
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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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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...
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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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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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