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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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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Bob Palmerton
- Apr 22, 2021
- 1 min
Old Gnarly Charlie
My first plein air of the Spring season is Gnarly Charlie. Charlie can be found at Marshview Meadows Park in Pittsfield Township,...
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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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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...
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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...
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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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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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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...
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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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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...
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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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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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