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Bob Palmerton
Jun 18, 20181 min read
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...
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Bob Palmerton
Jun 17, 20181 min read
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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Bob Palmerton
Jun 13, 20182 min read
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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Bob Palmerton
Jun 11, 20181 min read
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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Bob Palmerton
Jun 11, 20181 min read
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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Bob Palmerton
Jun 5, 20182 min read
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...
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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
Jun 2, 20181 min read
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....
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Bob Palmerton
May 21, 20181 min read
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...
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Bob Palmerton
May 14, 20181 min read
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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Bob Palmerton
May 12, 20182 min read
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...
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Bob Palmerton
May 11, 20181 min read
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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Bob Palmerton
May 8, 20181 min read
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...
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Bob Palmerton
May 7, 20181 min read
StudioSense: Pastel & Watercolor Underpainting
Spring has finally arrived in Southeast Michigan. Touring a local nature preserve with my dog Cosmo, I came across this scene, replete...
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Bob Palmerton
May 6, 20181 min read
Pastel Painting: Primi Piatti
Touring Lucca, Italy, a quaint, medieval walled town in Tuscany, I came across a variety of narrow streets with restaurants, 400-year old...
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Bob Palmerton
Apr 26, 20183 min read
Pastel Painting: Woodland Waltz
If my regular blog followers have recognized that my blogging has become rather sparse, I blame it on this painting, "Woodland Waltz." It...
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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
Apr 12, 20183 min read
StudioSense: Name that Painting
An enduring challenge for many artists is arriving at the name for a landscape painting. Personally, here are my opinions. I don't...
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Bob Palmerton
Mar 28, 20181 min read
StudioSense: Seeing Nature through a Master's Lens
Monet said it all: "When you go out to paint, try to forget what objects you have before you...merely think, here is a little square of...
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Bob Palmerton
Mar 26, 20181 min read
StudioSense: A Chip off the Old Brick
Back to the street scene in Lucca, Italy, addressed in a recent blog post. The subject at hand is how to paint a brick wall in pastel. ...
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