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Bob Palmerton
Mar 18, 20171 min read
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, 20171 min read
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, 20171 min read
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, 20171 min read
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, 20171 min read
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, 20171 min read
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 25, 20172 min read
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, 20172 min read
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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Bob Palmerton
Feb 23, 20174 min read
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, 20171 min read
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, 20171 min read
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 16, 20171 min read
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 16, 20171 min read
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, 20171 min read
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, 20171 min read
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, 20171 min read
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, 20171 min read
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, 20171 min read
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, 20171 min read
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, 20171 min read
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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