Bob Palmerton Pastels

On the Olympic Peninsula in Washington, you can find Ruby Beach, situated on the Pacific Ocean. The curiosity of this location is the mass of fallen trees th...

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 a bike ride many ye...

As the weather turns for the worst in Michigan, it is time to revisit my collection of photographs that I use as inspiration and reference points for pastel ...

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 bottom. ______________...

Planning a landscape painting, from initial concept to sketch, value definition, underpainting and application of pastels, is critical to success (and to avo...

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 would show various ...

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 the initial orange a...

Working on detail of a woodland scene, I decided to encourage my habit of populating many different colors in one value (aka light or dark shaded area). A l...

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

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 shrubs blend in with t...

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

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

My winter scene as noted in my recent blog "Many Shades of Grey" has earned itself a warm and contrary color watercolor underpainting. I chose this color for...

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! Notice how the gre...