Pastel Painting Technique - A Lesson from Start to Finish
I recently started a YouTube channel with pastel painting demos and painting tips. Before YouTube, I would blog about a painting from...
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Bob Palmerton
Jan 8, 20224 min read
Fresh Off The Easel: Tracks in the Snow
Winter scenes have arrived! I visited Marsh View Meadow Park in Pittsfield Township on a sunny, late afternoon. The sky was clear and...
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Bob Palmerton
Apr 22, 20211 min read
Old Gnarly Charlie
My first plein air of the Spring season is Gnarly Charlie. Charlie can be found at Marshview Meadows Park in Pittsfield Township,...
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Bob Palmerton
May 31, 20192 min read
Pastel Painting: Ruby Beach - Olympic Peninsula
On the Olympic Peninsula in Washington, you can find Ruby Beach, situated on the Pacific Ocean. The curiosity of this location is the...
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Bob Palmerton
Nov 10, 20181 min read
Pastel Painting: "Enter At Your Own Risk"
I was torn between calling this one "C'mon In" or its current title. An old shed and home overgrown with vines. Reference photo take on...
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Bob Palmerton
Nov 6, 20182 min read
StudioSense: Starting a Pastel Painting
As the weather turns for the worst in Michigan, it is time to revisit my collection of photographs that I use as inspiration and...
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Bob Palmerton
Sep 15, 20182 min read
StudioSense: Fake Painting Tips
This blog article is an update to one published in March of 2018. The final version of the painting "Woodland Waltz" is posted at the...
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Bob Palmerton
Sep 12, 20182 min read
StudioSense: Planning the Landscape in Pastel
Planning a landscape painting, from initial concept to sketch, value definition, underpainting and application of pastels, is critical to...
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Bob Palmerton
Jun 24, 20182 min read
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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Bob Palmerton
Jun 19, 20182 min read
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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Bob Palmerton
Apr 18, 20182 min read
StudioSense: How Many Colors Can You Fit in a Value?
Working on detail of a woodland scene, I decided to encourage my habit of populating many different colors in one value (aka light or...
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Bob Palmerton
Mar 17, 20182 min read
StudioSense: Mangiare a Lucca; Pastel Street Scene Lesson from Italy
This scene in Lucca, a medieval walled town in Tuscany, caught my attention while vacationing in Italy in 2016. I find this street scene...
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Bob Palmerton
Feb 24, 20182 min read
StudioSense - All The "Twigs" You Cannot See
Notice the group of small trees on the left in this work-in-progress version of "Cross Country Craving." The twigs near the top of the...
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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
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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