Robert Weinblatt. Soft Pastel Painter
Robert S. Weinblatt is an American contemporary impressionist landscape painter educated in NYC where he studied Fine Art and received a BFA from Queens College.
He spent a long period of time working in the fashion industry doing hairdressing and make up on a celebrity level. After a long and healthy career he “felt his heart calling him back to art and more specifically, painting.” He decided then that “art was where [his] heart ached to be” so he chose to move forward with his dreams.
“Just of the easel”, Soft pastel painting, ©photo Robert Weinblatt
“I paint [in pastel] with emotional reactions to what I see, and I translate those feelings into design and color. I'm primarily a gallery artist, but I enjoy competition work as well. When I paint, I want the viewer to see the image from my vantage point, to see my reaction to the landscape”
“For the love of light” ©photo by Robert Weinblatt, 2021
Robert’s work is fresh and spontaneous. It is vivid, like a moment captured in just a few strokes... I see his paintings as a moment, an idea that is about to escape, to disappear. Robert perceives that essence and transmits it through his work, taking the viewer to a special place… Without necessarily ‘finishing’ it, or giving it an unnecessary shape. Leaving the viewer a margin and freedom of interpretation, which, nowadays, is highly appreciated.
Soft Pastel painting, ©photo by Robert Weinblatt, 2021
“When viewing my work, I hope you as the observer can place yourself in my shoes for a moment – to appreciate the beauty and the joyous light that made that moment special for me, a moment I wanted to share with you"
“Who Knows”, soft pastel ©photo by Robert Weinblatt, 2022
I Met Robert almost two years ago, while starting my own project, Mamut Pastels, and I found not just a good painter, but an enthusiast. A true lover of pastel, color and art in general, with whom it is easy to connect with. Robert was very kind to send me some images of his painting process, which I feel very honored to publish. Looking at the process of an artist is always a privilege. I see on those images the magic of simplicity capturing the moment, the perception of a fugitive idea drawn in Pastel.
“Breathing Life” Soft Pastel Painting on process 1 ©photo by Robert Weinblatt, 2022
Soft Pastel Painting on process 2 ©photo by Robert Weinblatt, 2022
Soft Pastel Painting on process 3 ©photo.painting by Robert Weinblatt, 2022
“Breathing Life” Soft Pastel painting, ©photo-painting by Robert Weinblatt, 2022
