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Bob Palmerton
Dec 5, 20181 min read
Pastel Painting: "Meeting at Mill Pond"
Mill Pond Park is located on the west side of Saline, MI. This pastel painting was created on Uart sanded paper with a variety of soft...
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Bob Palmerton
Nov 30, 20182 min read
StudioSense: Filling the Gap
Here's a pastel painting-in-progress that includes a change in the composition mid-stream. The painting is called "Meeting at Mill Pond."...
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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
Oct 21, 20181 min read
It's Showtime! Upcoming Exhibits
Two upcoming venues will exhibit work of local artists including a selection of my landscape pastel paintings. The Clinton Arts Center is...
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Bob Palmerton
Jun 4, 20181 min read
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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Bob Palmerton
Jan 14, 20182 min read
Painting Technique: Capturing the Glow of Winter
Rolling Hills County Park in Ypsilanti, Michigan maintains 3 miles of groomed cross-country skiing trails. I've enjoyed skiing and...
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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
Jul 22, 20171 min read
New Pastel Painting - Woolley Park Stroll
Woolley Park Stroll was started en plein air with my studio assistant Cosmo. Completed today, I decided to enhance some of the...
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Bob Palmerton
Jul 17, 20172 min read
Pastel Technique: Impressionistic Touches
On another plein air excursion this past weekend, I came across a bucolic early morning scene at Wooley Pary, just west of South State...
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