Pastel Painting - Pittsfield Preserve
The latest version of my plein air painting at the Pittsfield Preserve. I guess it is 50% "plein air" as I am completing the pastel in...
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Bob Palmerton
- May 3, 2017
- 1 min
Pastel Technique: Grass without the Blades
As I was painting the grass portion of a recent landscape started in plein air, I was faced with the unexciting challenge of painting...
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Bob Palmerton
- Apr 24, 2017
- 1 min
Pastel Technique - Plein Air Setup
Today I headed out to the Pittsfield Preserve off Marton Road in Pittsflield Township. A sunny day with temps about 65 were perfect...
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Bob Palmerton
- Apr 20, 2017
- 1 min
Upcoming Show in South Haven
I will be attending the Great Lakes Pastel Society Member's Exhibit in South Haven, Michigan. The event will be at the South Haven Center...
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Bob Palmerton
- Apr 20, 2017
- 1 min
Big Mountains, Small Painting
My daughter Sara toured the National Parks last summer and has shared a plethora of gorgeous landscapes from Grand Teton National Park...
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Bob Palmerton
- Apr 13, 2017
- 1 min
Italy's Colors
I enjoy the oranges, reds and greens of medieval Italy! Here is the current version or Ravello. Working those greens, blues, purples,...
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Bob Palmerton
- Apr 5, 2017
- 1 min
Pastel Technique: Carried Away with Complementary Colors
This is a scene from the town of Ravello on Italy's Amalfi Coast. Ravello towers above the Mediterranean, an arduous uphill hike from...
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Bob Palmerton
- Apr 2, 2017
- 1 min
Pastel Painting: Marsh Madness
New pastel painting: pond in Lillie Park, near Ann Arbor, MI. Soft pastel on Uart sanded paper. 10x13. See Marsh Madness and other...
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Bob Palmerton
- Apr 1, 2017
- 1 min
Pastel Technique: Reliving Monet's Madness
As I was continuing work on "Marsh Madness," a close study of its reference photo revealed a horror I needed to address: very faint...
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Bob Palmerton
- Mar 29, 2017
- 2 min
Pastel Technique: Planes, Color and Highlights
See below the latest version of my painting-in-progress, "Marsh Madness." The view of this marsh extends from right below your feet, to...
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Bob Palmerton
- Mar 25, 2017
- 1 min
Pastel Technique: Watercolor underpainting
Here is a painting of a marsh in Lillie Park, near Ann Arbor, MI. What I found impressive was the blues, purples and greens of the water...
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Bob Palmerton
- Mar 18, 2017
- 1 min
Pastel Painting: Judd Road Field
This painting was started as our field demo in "The Landscape in Pastel" class at the Michigan Art Center. I darkened the ground above...
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Bob Palmerton
- Mar 18, 2017
- 1 min
Pastel Painting: Early Spring Soybeans
In the Pittsfield Preserve off Thomas Road near Saline, MI. An early morning in June, the soybeans were starting to emerge with vigor as...
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Bob Palmerton
- Mar 14, 2017
- 1 min
Pastel Technique: Softening Edges
Conveying distance in a painting can be successfully portrayed by cooling or subduing color. Softening edges is key to building that...
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Bob Palmerton
- Mar 14, 2017
- 1 min
Pastel Technique: Using Toned Paper
This is a Wallis grayish brown toned sanded pastel paper. I felt that the brown tone will help fill the ground beneath the grasses of...
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Bob Palmerton
- Mar 5, 2017
- 1 min
Pastel Painting: Icy Blues
A wintry scene on a sunny morning in the Pittsfield Preserve off Thomas Road, Pittsfield Township, Michigan. #Uart #pastels #snow
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Bob Palmerton
- Feb 27, 2017
- 1 min
Pastel Technique: Blending and "Drawing"
Nature was not drawn. So as we convey the landscape in pastel, we try not to "line out" the elements of the landscape. Here is the snow...
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Bob Palmerton
- Feb 26, 2017
- 1 min
Pastel Painting: Daybreak at Marton Field
Here's a completed painting. Complementary colors hide behind the orange tree and green in the field. Marton Road Field is in the...
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Bob Palmerton
- Feb 26, 2017
- 2 min
Pastel Technique: A Study on Paper
This morning I had the privilege to meet Ed Kennedy, PSA. Ed resides in the same town as I do, in Saline, MI., so we got together to...
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Bob Palmerton
- Feb 23, 2017
- 2 min
Birch Ballet
Strolling through Furstenberg Park in Northeast Ann Arbor, I came across an open field housing scattered birch trees. I was inspired: I...
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