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    Pastel Painting Technique - A Lesson from Start to Finish
    Bob Palmerton
    • Mar 14
    • 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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    Fresh Off The Easel: Tracks in the Snow
    Bob Palmerton
    • Jan 8
    • 4 min

    Fresh Off The Easel: Tracks in the Snow

    Winter scenes have arrived! I visited Marsh View Meadow Park in Pittsfield Township on a sunny, late afternoon. The sky was clear and...
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    StudioSense: Warming up the Beach
    Bob Palmerton
    • Sep 5, 2019
    • 1 min

    StudioSense: Warming up the Beach

    On a sunny, early morning on the beach at Breezy Point, New York, there is a distinctive warm glow in the sand and grasses that comprise...
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    Fresh off the Easel: Muggy Morning
    Bob Palmerton
    • Jul 15, 2019
    • 2 min

    Fresh off the Easel: Muggy Morning

    It was a hot, sticky July morning at the Pittsfield Preserve near Ann Arbor, Michigan. The grass was wet and the mosquitoes were circling...
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    Pastel Painting: Ruby Beach - Olympic Peninsula
    Bob Palmerton
    • May 31, 2019
    • 2 min

    Pastel Painting: Ruby Beach - Olympic Peninsula

    On the Olympic Peninsula in Washington, you can find Ruby Beach, situated on the Pacific Ocean. The curiosity of this location is the...
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    Pastel Painting: Early Spring at Warner Creek
    Bob Palmerton
    • May 6, 2019
    • 1 min

    Pastel Painting: Early Spring at Warner Creek

    Behind Pittsfield Township Hall near Saline, MI., there are nature trails and a pond fed by Warner Creek. Cosmo (my dog) likes to sniff...
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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. ...
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    Pastel Painting: Under the Pines at Lake Quinault
    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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    Pastel Painting: Hoh Rainforest
    Bob Palmerton
    • Mar 31, 2019
    • 1 min

    Pastel Painting: Hoh Rainforest

    The Hoh Rainforest is a temperate rainforest located in Olympic National Park. This painting is part of my PNW (Pacific Northwest) pastel...
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    StudioSense: Green and Red and Blue and Orange
    Bob Palmerton
    • Feb 14, 2019
    • 3 min

    StudioSense: Green and Red and Blue and Orange

    I was rather pleased with the bold color effects of "The Clearing," where I applied an acrylic under-painting of colors representing the...
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    StudioSense: Acrylic Opposites
    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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    Pastel Painting: Stairway to Thunder Hole
    Bob Palmerton
    • Jan 22, 2019
    • 1 min

    Pastel Painting: Stairway to Thunder Hole

    Inspired by a hike along the Ocean Path Trail at Acadia National Park in Bar Harbor in Maine, this 21x27 pastel painting evokes a bit of...
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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...
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    Pastel Painting: "Enter At Your Own Risk"
    Bob Palmerton
    • Nov 10, 2018
    • 1 min

    Pastel Painting: "Enter At Your Own Risk"

    I was torn between calling this one "C'mon In" or its current title. An old shed and home overgrown with vines. Reference photo take on...
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    StudioSense: Starting a Pastel Painting
    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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    StudioSense: Bold Acrylic Underpainting
    Bob Palmerton
    • Oct 17, 2018
    • 2 min

    StudioSense: Bold Acrylic Underpainting

    I will often start a pastel painting with an underpainting of either watercolor, acrylic, or a wash of pastel diluted with isopropyl...
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    Pastel Paintings - Ireland Series
    Bob Palmerton
    • Oct 13, 2018
    • 1 min

    Pastel Paintings - Ireland Series

    Way back in 2008 my family and I visited my wife's relatives in Ireland. The two paintings below were inspired from photographs of our...
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    StudioSense: Planning the Landscape in Pastel
    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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    Pastel Painting: Ocean Kayak, Breezy Point
    Bob Palmerton
    • Aug 31, 2018
    • 1 min

    Pastel Painting: Ocean Kayak, Breezy Point

    Strolling along at Breezy Point on the bay, I came across this kayak awaiting its next journey in Jamaica Bay at Breezy Point, NY. To...
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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...
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