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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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    Old Gnarly Charlie
    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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    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: "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: Fake Painting Tips
    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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    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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    StudioSense: Orange to Blue to "Green"
    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...
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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...
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    Pastel Technique: Acrylic Underpainting
    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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    Pastel Technique: Many Shades of Grey
    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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