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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Bob Palmerton
- May 12, 2017
- 1 min
Painting Technique: What You See is Not What You Get
See the color in the photo below; this photo was digitally enhanced as best as I could using Microsoft Office. In fact, without...
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Bob Palmerton
- May 8, 2017
- 1 min
Pastel Technique: Seeing Spots
One of the joys of painting landscapes in pastels is the ability to quickly add dashes and spots of different color to express density...
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Bob Palmerton
- May 5, 2017
- 1 min
Pastel Painting - Pittsfield Preserve
The latest version of my plein air painting at the Pittsfield Preserve. I guess it is 50% "plein air" as I am completing the pastel in...
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Bob Palmerton
- Apr 13, 2017
- 1 min
Italy's Colors
I enjoy the oranges, reds and greens of medieval Italy! Here is the current version or Ravello. Working those greens, blues, purples,...
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Bob Palmerton
- Apr 5, 2017
- 1 min
Pastel Technique: Carried Away with Complementary Colors
This is a scene from the town of Ravello on Italy's Amalfi Coast. Ravello towers above the Mediterranean, an arduous uphill hike from...
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Bob Palmerton
- Mar 18, 2017
- 1 min
Pastel Painting: Early Spring Soybeans
In the Pittsfield Preserve off Thomas Road near Saline, MI. An early morning in June, the soybeans were starting to emerge with vigor as...
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Bob Palmerton
- Feb 26, 2017
- 2 min
Pastel Technique: A Study on Paper
This morning I had the privilege to meet Ed Kennedy, PSA. Ed resides in the same town as I do, in Saline, MI., so we got together to...
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Bob Palmerton
- Feb 23, 2017
- 2 min
Birch Ballet
Strolling through Furstenberg Park in Northeast Ann Arbor, I came across an open field housing scattered birch trees. I was inspired: I...
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Bob Palmerton
- Feb 22, 2017
- 1 min
Pastel Technique: Once You Go Blue, You'll Never Go Black
Before I publish my work-in-progress dissertation condemning the use of the "color" black, I thought I would share progress on "Daybreak...
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Bob Palmerton
- Feb 18, 2017
- 1 min
Pastel Technique: Pushing Color
While working on "Birch Ballet," (see earlier posts), I realized that I wanted the distant tree line and grasses that butted up against...
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Bob Palmerton
- Feb 17, 2017
- 1 min
Pastel Technique: Warm Orange Underpainting
My winter scene as noted in my recent blog "Many Shades of Grey" has earned itself a warm and contrary color watercolor underpainting. I...
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Bob Palmerton
- Feb 17, 2017
- 1 min
Pastel Technique: Many Shades of Grey
I decided that the underpainting will be a warm orange. This will contrast nicely with the blues of the snow I plan to pay down shortly!...
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Bob Palmerton
- Feb 5, 2017
- 1 min
Painting Tips: Planes and Blending
Often when viewing a landscape painting in progress, we feel that there is "something wrong" but don't quite know what that something is!...
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Bob Palmerton
- Feb 4, 2017
- 1 min
Pastel Painting: Lillie Park Vista
Here's the completed version of "Lillie Park Vista,' started in the "Landscape in Pastels" class this January at the Michigan Art Center.
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Bob Palmerton
- Feb 2, 2017
- 1 min
Pastel Painting: A dollop of effect
Working more blocks of value and color in the autumn tree painting, which i started at the Michigan Art Center landscape painting class....
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Bob Palmerton
- Jan 29, 2017
- 1 min
Landscape Painting: When is Detail Too Much?
The reference photo for the birch tree painting in progress has a tangled mess of grasses, weeds, small trees and shrubs that appear to...
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Bob Palmerton
- Dec 7, 2016
- 1 min
Review notes: two works in progress
At any time in my studio, there can be several paintings in progress. I allow these paintings to "mellow" and take on further refinements...
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Bob Palmerton
- Nov 20, 2016
- 1 min
Time to Name the Painting
I think we are done with this one! Now it doesn't hurt to let it "ripen" by leaving it accessible in the studio for some whim of a quick...
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Bob Palmerton
- Nov 15, 2016
- 1 min
Water and Leaves
A few more refinements. Interesting pointer regarding using reference photos. The water in the photo was too bright (high value) due to...
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