Bob Palmerton Pastels

Just north of Brighton, Michigan on the northbound lanes of US 23, there's a vista on the right, depicting a stream winding through a field and woodlands. T...

The latest landscape painting in my Pacific Northwest (PNW) series. This 12x16 pastel painting was inspired by a hike in the Hoh Rainforest in Olympic Natio...

The Great Lakes Pastel Society will hold its Members Exhibit at the Carnegie Center for the Arts in Three Rivers, Michigan. The exhibit will run from June 2...

Traveling through Olympic National Forest, I came upon this spot on Lake Quinault. Pastel painting, 9x12, done on Uart 320 grade paper. The painting has a c...

Mill Pond Park is located on the west side of Saline, MI. This pastel painting was created on Uart sanded paper with a variety of soft and semi-hard pastels...

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. ______________...

My initial foray into plein air painting resulted in the painting below, "Wooley Park Stroll." As this painting sat in inventory I felt that some freshening...

On a hike through a nearby nature preserve last Tuesday, I followed a woodland trail and came across newly-sprouted gatherings of "Great White Trillium." Th...

It seems that with a few days of temperatures in the low 70's, that foliage bursts furiously in Southeast Michigan. This pond and field scene can be found a...

Updating a post from last year, I recently started an early spring landscape with an early morning clear "blue" sky. Capturing the gradations of blue (near t...

If my regular blog followers have recognized that my blogging has become rather sparse, I blame it on this painting, "Woodland Waltz." It has absorbed my tim...

An enduring challenge for many artists is arriving at the name for a landscape painting. Personally, here are my opinions. I don't claim that I follow thes...

Monet said it all: "When you go out to paint, try to forget what objects you have before you...merely think, here is a little square of blue, an oblong of pi...

Spring Break time is coming soon! "Season's Transitions" was inspired by a hike on the Chimney Tops trail at Great Smoky National Park. Our hike was severa...

Last year I published this blog addressing how snow can exude a variety of colors, mostly of blues, purples and cool pinks. As I continued painting "Cross C...

Snow has finally arrived in Southeast Michigan (and most of the northern US)! This painting was inspired by a cross-country skiing venture to Rolling Hills ...

Following a visit to Point Pelee National Park near Leamington, Ontario on Labor Day weekend, an inspiring scene off the Marsh Boardwalk encouraged me to sta...

On another plein air excursion this past weekend, I came across a bucolic early morning scene at Wooley Pary, just west of South State Road on Textile Road, ...

The final version of Ski Tracks. Additional work on the shadows and scattered leaves in the snow capped off an enjoyable journey from underpainting to finis...

Working on the Teton painting. Here is the initial version following creation of the underpainting and initial application of pastel: In this modification, ...