Pastel Painting: Pondering Spring
It seems that with a few days of temperatures in the low 70's, that foliage bursts furiously in Southeast Michigan. This pond and field...
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Bob Palmerton
May 8, 20181 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...
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Bob Palmerton
May 7, 20181 min
StudioSense: Pastel & Watercolor Underpainting
Spring has finally arrived in Southeast Michigan. Touring a local nature preserve with my dog Cosmo, I came across this scene, replete...
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Bob Palmerton
Apr 26, 20183 min
Pastel Painting: Woodland Waltz
If my regular blog followers have recognized that my blogging has become rather sparse, I blame it on this painting, "Woodland Waltz." It...
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Bob Palmerton
Apr 12, 20183 min
StudioSense: Name that Painting
An enduring challenge for many artists is arriving at the name for a landscape painting. Personally, here are my opinions. I don't...
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Bob Palmerton
Mar 28, 20181 min
StudioSense: Seeing Nature through a Master's Lens
Monet said it all: "When you go out to paint, try to forget what objects you have before you...merely think, here is a little square of...
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Bob Palmerton
Mar 24, 20183 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...
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Bob Palmerton
Feb 24, 20182 min
StudioSense - All The "Twigs" You Cannot See
Notice the group of small trees on the left in this work-in-progress version of "Cross Country Craving." The twigs near the top of the...
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Bob Palmerton
Feb 19, 20182 min
StudioSense: "Snow Blue and the Seven Dwarfs?"
Last year I published this blog addressing how snow can exude a variety of colors, mostly of blues, purples and cool pinks. As I...
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Bob Palmerton
Feb 15, 20185 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...
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Bob Palmerton
Feb 3, 20182 min
StudioSense - The Balancing Act
Compositions can be enhanced through a variety of techniques. I like to think abut composition from two perspectives: first, the...
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Bob Palmerton
Dec 17, 20173 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...
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Bob Palmerton
Nov 11, 20172 min
Pastel Technique: Capturing Distance in the Landscape
Conveying distance across the multiple planes of a landscape can be handled by muting the local color with grays, blues and the color's...
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Bob Palmerton
Oct 20, 20171 min
Through the Trees - Pastel Painting
So often have I strolled through the local parks (often jogging with my dog Cosmo) and marveled at how the early morning sunlight would...
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Bob Palmerton
Aug 2, 20171 min
Pastel Painting: Fall Color Hike
When my son Matthew was in Cub Scouts in Saline, Michigan (early on his journey to achieve Eagle Scout), an annual ritual for the troop...
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Bob Palmerton
Jul 22, 20171 min
New Pastel Painting - Woolley Park Stroll
Woolley Park Stroll was started en plein air with my studio assistant Cosmo. Completed today, I decided to enhance some of the...
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Bob Palmerton
Jul 17, 20172 min
Pastel Technique: Impressionistic Touches
On another plein air excursion this past weekend, I came across a bucolic early morning scene at Wooley Pary, just west of South State...
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Bob Palmerton
Jul 8, 20171 min
New Painting: Cross-Country Skiing in June
The final version of Ski Tracks. Additional work on the shadows and scattered leaves in the snow capped off an enjoyable journey from...
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Bob Palmerton
May 22, 20172 min
Painting Technique: Composition
Working on the Teton painting. Here is the initial version following creation of the underpainting and initial application of pastel: In...
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Bob Palmerton
May 20, 20172 min
Pastel Technique - Watercolor Underpainting
Here's the latest version of "Ski Tracks." The composition is established to invite the viewer to follow the tracks toward the horizon....
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