Birch Ballet
February 23 Update: Here is the completed painting "Birch Ballet." February 7 Update Continuing to to refine details. February 1 update...
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Bob Palmerton
- Feb 22, 2017
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Pastel Technique: Once You Go Blue, You'll Never Go Black
Before I publish my work-in-progress dissertation condemning the use of the "color" black, I thought I would share progress on "Daybreak...
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Bob Palmerton
- Feb 18, 2017
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Pastel Technique: Pushing Color
While working on "Birch Ballet," (see earlier posts), I realized that I wanted the distant tree line and grasses that butted up against...
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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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Bob Palmerton
- Feb 12, 2017
- 1 min
How to Paint that Sky
I'm looking forward to teaching again in March at the Michigan Art Center! I plan to choose key photographs depicting unique and...
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Bob Palmerton
- Feb 11, 2017
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Pastel Painting: Complementary Color Underpainting
Here's a new painting I started today. The scene is a field off Marton Road in Pittsfield Township, MI. I decided that I would do a...
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Bob Palmerton
- Feb 11, 2017
- 1 min
Pastel Technique: The Finer Details
A truly rewarding aspect of landscape painting is to enjoy the finer details added to the canvas, once the "basic" painting is completed....
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Bob Palmerton
- Feb 7, 2017
- 1 min
Painting Technique: Working the Edges
A tortillion (pointed paper stick) and a piece of willow charcoal can be a pastel painter’s best friends when it comes to refining edges....
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Bob Palmerton
- Feb 5, 2017
- 1 min
Painting Tips: Planes and Blending
Often when viewing a landscape painting in progress, we feel that there is "something wrong" but don't quite know what that something is!...
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Bob Palmerton
- Feb 4, 2017
- 1 min
Pastel Painting: Lillie Park Vista
Here's the completed version of "Lillie Park Vista,' started in the "Landscape in Pastels" class this January at the Michigan Art Center.
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Bob Palmerton
- Feb 3, 2017
- 1 min
Pastel Painting: Soften Distance with Complementary Color
On our autumn tree I determined that the very bright yellow leaves catching the late day sun were a bit too bold. So my plan was to...
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Bob Palmerton
- Feb 2, 2017
- 1 min
Pastel Painting: A dollop of effect
Working more blocks of value and color in the autumn tree painting, which i started at the Michigan Art Center landscape painting class....
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Bob Palmerton
- Jan 31, 2017
- 1 min
Pastel Landscape: Managing the Level of Detail
As noted in my previous blog about "how much detail is too much," I continued to tackle the foreground of "Birch Ballet." I have decided...
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Bob Palmerton
- Jan 29, 2017
- 1 min
Landscape Painting: When is Detail Too Much?
The reference photo for the birch tree painting in progress has a tangled mess of grasses, weeds, small trees and shrubs that appear to...
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Bob Palmerton
- Jan 25, 2017
- 1 min
Painting Tip: Breaking it Up
While observing the current state of "Birch Ballet," I had a compositional epiphany. Although absent from the reference photo, placing a...
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Bob Palmerton
- Jan 24, 2017
- 1 min
Pastel Painting: Lillie Park Path
Simple, small format painting forces the artist to focus on blocks of color, light and value.
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Bob Palmerton
- Jan 24, 2017
- 1 min
Landscape with Barn: A Complementary Underpainting
This painting is entitled "Barn Clip." The barn resides on Willow Road in York Township, Michigan, just east of US 23. I was riding my...
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Bob Palmerton
- Jan 23, 2017
- 1 min
Building Depth in Trees
Working further on our class demo at the Michigan Art Center, I began building depth in the distant treeline and the distant ground....
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Bob Palmerton
- Jan 21, 2017
- 1 min
Late Day at the Arboretum
Pastel painting; 10x12. Challenge here was muting the large distant tree in the background so that it shows distinctly behind the bold...
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