Clear River7.5" x 9"
Pastel
Casey Klahn
The River Series is an award winning exhibit of landscapes that fixes your eye on the picture plane, and has you wondering what's around that next bend.
You are invited to view River Passages at Northwest University, my alma mater, in Kirkland, Washington, from November 6th., 2009, through January 4th., 2010. Meet me there, Friday, November 6th., between 12 and 2 PM, for the opening.
River Passages, Currents in Landscape Art.
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Congrats on the show, Casey!
Thank you, Deborah.
Congratulations! Wonderful catalogue Northwest produced, too!
Thanks, Kelly.
Wow, this looks like beautiful show. Congratularions!
Congratulations on the show Casey! Love the painting on your postacard!
I will definitely make it up to Kirkland to see your River Series in person. Sorry I will miss meeting you at your opening, though.
I enjoy your evocative use of color and obvious understanding of the landscape.
Congrats on the show. Very special, indeed, to hang at your alma mater!
This is a beautiful one, Casey. Congratulations on the show - wish I lived just a little closer...
Katherine, be sure to call the University at 425.822.8266 before you travel, because I'm not sure they'll be open on a weekend. Then again, maybe they are - the HSC building hours are what you need.
Thanks, Brian, Katherine and Eden. I'll have to wrangle an east coast opening next time, Brian.
This was quite unexpected when I went to open your pastel blog. It's so wonderfully rich and dramatic.
Thank you, Susan.
Congrats on the show! Stunning work!
Wow! Iwish I could see your show! The color and movement in your compositions look wonderful.
Thanks for reading!
Gorgeous, Casey. What color was the underpainting?
Hi, Jala.
I guess this one is on La Carte, and the Sienna color is visible at the bottom peeking through the blue water.
I rarely do under paintings - but the toned paper of Sennielier "makes up" for that.
Yeah, I meant what was the "base color," thanks for answering. I find it strange and interesting that it seems like Wolf Kahn's pastels are always done on very light-valued, non-sanded paper. I know at some point that's probably all that was available, but has he not changed his surface even now? It's strange to me that he finds a light-valued surface acceptable/desirable for any pastel painting he does. (I'm someone who loves experimenting with diff.colors and especially values, of base color.
I love love love WK's pastels - as you all know.
A fundamental thing is that he treats them as a drawing, in my opinion.
I know I am constantly trying to figure out his approaches. Built up scribbly (very intuitive and free) gestures are there. It seems like the stuff he values from Hoffman, such as pushing and pulling with values and colors. Esp. pushing down from the top or bottom of the drawing.
Anyway, those are my observations.
Toned paper helps a guy to unify a work, but really there are so many other ways to unify a work, huh?
Interesting thoughts, thanks, Casey. So you think he thinks of them as drawings, not paintings?
w/out looking at them right now, I would say WK's drawings rely a lot on the line. He builds that line up so much that he gets areas of color.
A young staff member @ the gallery in NYC where I saw several WK pastels thought that he must be using oil pastels on top, because of this stunning blue line on one. Of course, his pastel ignorance was stunning, because it was probably a Sennelier ultramarine blue - so thin and pigmented.
It's great to be thinking @ drawing like this, because I organized (cleaned) my studio last night to get ready to do some drawings. Woo Hoo.
there is so much energy in your work; power to see the life force in objects. world.
I do love you river series Casey. Beautiful paintings. I live on the Mississippi and don't know what I would do without the energy of the river in all seasons. And thank you so much for your comments on my website. They are very much appreciated coming from you.
Deb and mansuetude - thanks for saying these things and for reading here.
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