Pastel Painting: Breezy Point Bayside
Here's a more impressionistic pastel painting on the bayside at Breezy Point, New York. I decided to take an overcast day and instead...
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Bob Palmerton
Aug 18, 20171 min read
Fall Pastel Class Announced
I'll be teaching a five-week class starting in October at the Michigan Art Center. Enhanced Landscapes in Pastel Wednesdays, October 11 –...
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Bob Palmerton
Aug 17, 20171 min read
Pastel Painting: Breezy Point Dunes
Sunny day at Breezy Point, New York. Soft pastel on sanded paper; 8x10. See the previous post on the acrylic underpainting....
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Bob Palmerton
Aug 16, 20171 min read
Pastel Painting: On the Bay at Breezy Point
Although today's weather will be sunny an 90, it has been a bit cloudy (and rainy) at Breezy Point. This scene is on the bay side,...
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Bob Palmerton
Aug 15, 20171 min read
Pastel Painting: Breezy Point Surf
On the beach at Breezy Point. Soft Pastel on Uart sanded paper; 9x12.
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Bob Palmerton
Aug 14, 20171 min read
Pastel Technique: High Values at the Beach
A beach and its dunes on a sunny day convey the highest values (aka lightness) in color. I chose an acrylic underpainting to bring out...
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Bob Palmerton
Aug 13, 20171 min read
Plein Air at the Beach
Here's a quick underpainting done with a bristle brush, pastel and alcohol. Got the basic values and colors of this beach scene at...
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Bob Palmerton
Aug 6, 20171 min read
Pastel Technique: Grand Canyon of the Yellowstone
Working on the Grand Canyon of the Yellowstone, a breathtaking vista from photos my world traveler daughter Sara took last year. Here's...
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Bob Palmerton
Aug 3, 20171 min read
Pastel Painting: Matthaei Field
I recently completed this 8x10 painting which I started with an acrylic-based orange tone to the Uart sanded paper. You can still see...
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Bob Palmerton
Aug 2, 20171 min read
Pastel Painting: Fall Color Hike
When my son Matthew was in Cub Scouts in Saline, Michigan (early on his journey to achieve Eagle Scout), an annual ritual for the troop...
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Bob Palmerton
Jul 30, 20171 min read
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
Jul 24, 20171 min read
Pastel Technique: Experimenting with Black
I had the pleasure to meet Michael McKee at the Ann Arbor Art Fair this weekend. Mike creates vibrant pastels drawn on a black...
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Bob Palmerton
Jul 22, 20171 min read
New Pastel Painting - Woolley Park Stroll
Woolley Park Stroll was started en plein air with my studio assistant Cosmo. Completed today, I decided to enhance some of the...
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Bob Palmerton
Jul 20, 20171 min read
Life's a Beach! Plein Air at its best!
In August I will be at Breezy Point, New York, painting new "beach-scapes!" Here is a painting I did back in 2008 of the jetty and...
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Bob Palmerton
Jul 19, 20171 min read
Pastel Painting: Exploring Ravello
After climbing over 600 steps from Amalfi to Ravello, on the Amalfi Coast of Italy, my family entourage and I finally arrived at the...
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Bob Palmerton
Jul 17, 20172 min read
Pastel Technique: Impressionistic Touches
On another plein air excursion this past weekend, I came across a bucolic early morning scene at Wooley Pary, just west of South State...
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Bob Palmerton
Jul 15, 20171 min read
Pastel Painting: Santa Catalina Monastery
The colorful Santa Catalina Monastery is located in Arequipa, Peru. The monastery was founded in 1579. This painting represents a small...
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Bob Palmerton
Jul 8, 20171 min read
New Painting: Cross-Country Skiing in June
The final version of Ski Tracks. Additional work on the shadows and scattered leaves in the snow capped off an enjoyable journey from...
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Bob Palmerton
Jul 4, 20171 min read
Pastel Painting: Garlic "Out To Dry"
I have joyfully harvested my first collection of garlic!. After placing one clove each in about thirty raised-bed cavities in my...
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Bob Palmerton
Jul 2, 20172 min read
Plein Air Pastel Painting - Pittsfield Preserve
With a clear blue sky I headed out this morning at about 7 am with my dog Cosmo with plans to do a plein air painting in the Pittsfield...
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