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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 mas...

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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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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 referenc...

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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 bo...

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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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StudioSense: Stepping through the Jetty Painting

Bob Palmerton

Jun 24, 2018
2 min

StudioSense: Stepping through the Jetty Painting

Hopefully soon I will do a time lapse video of a painting from start to finish. Since I haven't yet tackled that technology, I thought I...

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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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StudioSense: How Many Colors Can You Fit in a Value?

Bob Palmerton

Apr 18, 2018
2 min

StudioSense: How Many Colors Can You Fit in a Value?

Working on detail of a woodland scene, I decided to encourage my habit of populating many different colors in one value (aka light or dar...

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StudioSense: Mangiare a Lucca; Pastel Street Scene Lesson from Italy

Bob Palmerton

Mar 17, 2018
2 min

StudioSense: Mangiare a Lucca; Pastel Street Scene Lesson from Italy

This scene in Lucca, a medieval walled town in Tuscany, caught my attention while vacationing in Italy in 2016. I find this street scene ...

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StudioSense - All The "Twigs" You Cannot See

Bob Palmerton

Feb 24, 2018
2 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 sh...

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Pastel Painting Technique - A Lesson from Start to Finish

Bob Palmerton

Nov 17, 2017
5 min

Pastel Painting Technique - A Lesson from Start to Finish

Here is a complete pastel painting lesson from start to finish. I chose to paint another marsh! I like to paint marshes (perhaps I shou...

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Bob Palmerton

Jul 31, 2017
1 min

Pastel Technique: Acrylic Underpainting

I thought I would spice up my underpainting techniques to do paint this landscape of a field at Matthaei Botanical Gardens in Ann Arbor. ...

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Pastel Technique: Warm Orange Underpainting

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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