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    Bob Palmerton Pastels

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    Nature will bear the closest inspection. She invites us to lay our eye level with her smallest leaf, and take an insect view of its plain.  - Henry David Thoreau
     

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    StudioSense: Capturing Texture
    Bob Palmerton
    • Jul 10, 2018
    • 2 min

    StudioSense: Capturing Texture

    I've been busy lately adding oil painting to my painting activities and have not gotten around to blog much. So I searched for past blog...
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    Oil Painting: "Clearing"
    Bob Palmerton
    • Jul 4, 2018
    • 1 min

    Oil Painting: "Clearing"

    It feels like Christmas in July as I wrap up this painting! Hiking near Pictured Rocks National Lakeshore in the Upper Peninsula of Michi...
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    Pastel Painting: "Landing Zone"
    Bob Palmerton
    • Jun 26, 2018
    • 1 min

    Pastel Painting: "Landing Zone"

    Here is the completed painting of the Crane Creek Estuary scene at Ottawa National Wildlife Refuge. You can see the earlier underpaintin...
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    StudioSense: Stepping through the Jetty Painting
    Bob Palmerton
    • Jun 24, 2018
    • 2 min

    StudioSense: Stepping through the Jetty Painting

    Hopefully soon I will do a time lapse video of a painting from start to finish. Since I haven't yet tackled that technology, I thought I...
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    Pastel Painting: Breezy Point Jetty
    Bob Palmerton
    • Jun 23, 2018
    • 1 min

    Pastel Painting: Breezy Point Jetty

    I should probably call this "Breezy Point Jetty Number 3," as it is the third painting I have done of this iconic landmark on the Atlanti...
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    Pastel Painting: Wetland Wonders
    Bob Palmerton
    • Jun 20, 2018
    • 1 min

    Pastel Painting: Wetland Wonders

    Here's a painting based on my recent visit to Ottawa National Wildlife Refuge in Northwest Ohio. This scene can be found at the Crane Cr...
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    StudioSense: Orange to Blue to "Green"
    Bob Palmerton
    • Jun 19, 2018
    • 2 min

    StudioSense: Orange to Blue to "Green"

    Earlier this month I posted this blog in which I chose among my collection of blues to complete an underpainting all in blue. Here was ...
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    Pastel Painting: Breezy Point Lighthouse
    Bob Palmerton
    • Jun 18, 2018
    • 1 min

    Pastel Painting: Breezy Point Lighthouse

    On the bay (again) at Breezy Point. Time to go to the Atlantic side next for more scenes of the Breezy Point community! Click here for o...
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    Pastel Painting: On the Bay at Breezy Point
    Bob Palmerton
    • Jun 17, 2018
    • 1 min

    Pastel Painting: On the Bay at Breezy Point

    Here's the latest pastel painting in my Breezy Point series. Looking forward to heading out to the beach in August! #BreezyPoint
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    StudioSense: Preparing a New Painting
    Bob Palmerton
    • Jun 13, 2018
    • 2 min

    StudioSense: Preparing a New Painting

    Working on my Breezy Point series early this morning. Here is the reference photo, which depicts the Breezy Point lighthouse on the bay ...
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    Pastel Painting: Squall in the Tetons
    Bob Palmerton
    • Jun 12, 2018
    • 1 min

    Pastel Painting: Squall in the Tetons

    A couple of years ago my daughter Sara hiked the region of the Great Tetons and returned with a bounty of grand photos, which I have used...
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    Pastel Painting: Dawn at Marton Pond
    Bob Palmerton
    • Jun 11, 2018
    • 1 min

    Pastel Painting: Dawn at Marton Pond

    The Pastel Society of America emails keep bugging me about submitting paintings for their annual juried exhibition in New York City. So ...
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    Pastel Technique: Monday Morning Blues
    Bob Palmerton
    • Jun 5, 2018
    • 2 min

    Pastel Technique: Monday Morning Blues

    I recently re-arranged my pastel palette, which revealed an abundance of blues. So I thought I would take advantage of such a variety an...
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    Pastel Painting: Morning Snack at Wooley Park
    Bob Palmerton
    • Jun 4, 2018
    • 1 min

    Pastel Painting: Morning Snack at Wooley Park

    My initial foray into plein air painting resulted in the painting below, "Wooley Park Stroll." As this painting sat in inventory I felt ...
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    Pastel Painting: Via S. Agata
    Bob Palmerton
    • Jun 2, 2018
    • 1 min

    Pastel Painting: Via S. Agata

    Wrapping up my Italy cityscapes before heading out to do some plein air painting of the soon-to-be-summer landscape, here is "Via S. Agat...
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    Pastel Painting: Resting My Wings
    Bob Palmerton
    • May 22, 2018
    • 1 min

    Pastel Painting: Resting My Wings

    At Breezy Point, a beach community on the Atlantic Ocean in Queens, New York, early morning and late day brings out the most brilliant co...
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    Pastel Painting: Tuesday's Trillium
    Bob Palmerton
    • May 14, 2018
    • 1 min

    Pastel Painting: Tuesday's Trillium

    On a hike through a nearby nature preserve last Tuesday, I followed a woodland trail and came across newly-sprouted gatherings of "Great ...
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    StudioSense: What's the Point?
    Bob Palmerton
    • May 12, 2018
    • 2 min

    StudioSense: What's the Point?

    "Pointillism" is a painting technique using dots of color to create images. You have likely seen such neo-impressionist paintings of Geo...
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    Pastel Painting: Pondering Spring
    Bob Palmerton
    • May 11, 2018
    • 1 min

    Pastel Painting: Pondering Spring

    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 ...
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    StudioSense: Clear Blue (and yellow, orange, pink) Sky
    Bob Palmerton
    • May 8, 2018
    • 1 min

    StudioSense: Clear Blue (and yellow, orange, pink) Sky

    Updating a post from last year, I recently started an early spring landscape with an early morning clear "blue" sky. Capturing the gradat...
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