28 November, 2013

Fire Dreams / Turkey In The Straw






In the name of the iron-jawed men I will stand up and say yes till the finish is come and gone. God of all broken hearts, empty hands, sleeping soldiers, God of all star-flung beaches of night sky, I and my love-child stand up together to-day and sing: "Thanks, O God."

Fire Dreams, Carl Sandburg


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24 November, 2013

Northwest Pastel Society

Casey Klahn deliberates among the final eleven pastel paintings at Everett's Schack Art Center.


The annual Holiday Art Show for the Northwest Pastel Society is ongoing in Everett, WA, from November 21st through December 28th.  I judged the awards and conducted a demonstration of a large artwork, which featured the subject of my barn.  I may have more photos in the near future, so please return here for those.


Holiday Art Show.

Northwest Pastel Society.




Photo: Jude Galbraith.

10 November, 2013

Remember 100 Things


This is a re-post from 2011.  I still love these 100 Things About Art.



River Land in Diffusion
7" x 5"
Pastel
Casey Klahn


Why a hundred things?
 Because it is an interesting exercise in editing.

These are not listed in any order.

  1. Color
  2. Graphite
  3. Willlem de Kooning
  4. Paper
  5. Art Studios
  6. Galleries
  7. Pastel Sticks
  8. Outdoor Art Fairs
  9. Art Societies
  10. Form
  11. Charcoal
  12. French Easels
  13. The Colorist Blog
  14. Italy
  15. Open Air
  16. The Figure
  17. Landscapes
  18. Proportion
  19. Collectors
  20. Children
  21. Henri Matisse
  22. Cartoons
  23. Wolf Kahn
  24. Rocks
  25. Jimmy Wright
  26. Artist's Models
  27. Wood
  28. Trees
  29. Blue
  30. Sculpture
  31. Love
  32. Black
  33. Pigment
  34. God
  35. Unity
  36. Courage
  37. Emotion
  38. Mass
  39. Mary Cassatt
  40. Andrew Wyeth
  41. Gesture
  42. Books
  43. Contradiction
  44. Museum Collections
  45. Weight
  46. Patronage
  47. Illumination
  48. Rosalba Carriera
  49. Florence in 1504
  50. Flow
  51. Instability
  52. Countenance
  53. The Agony and the Ecstasy
  54. Balance
  55. Bob Dylan
  56. Lines
  57. Creativity
  58. Plastic Space
  59. Analogies
  60. Pollock (Movie)
  61. Gray
  62. Artist's Traits
  63. Sketch Books
  64. Abstraction
  65. Realism
  66. Helen Frankenthaler
  67. Art History
  68. America
  69. Intuition
  70. The Golden Rectangle
  71. Pablo Picasso
  72. New York in 1950
  73. Master Copies
  74. Art Stores
  75. Edgar Degas
  76. Exhibitions
  77. Mark Rothko
  78. Optimism
  79. Rome in 1512
  80. Dimension
  81. Leonardo da Vinci
  82. The Palette
  83. Studio Easels
  84. Paris in 1904
  85. Taborets
  86. Architecture
  87. Caravaggio
  88. The Twentieth Century
  89. Scale
  90. Openings
  91.  Vincent van Gogh
  92.  Artist's Blogs
  93.  Water
  94.  Clay
  95. Cigar Boxes
  96. Influences
  97. Yellow
  98. The Colorist Daily
  99. Erasers
  100.  Vision

What are your 100 things?

06 November, 2013

05 November, 2013

Mad River

Madison River Bend
@9" x 20"
Pastel
Casey Klahn
Available

Madison River Turnout
@9" x 20"
Pastel
Casey Klahn
Private Collection

04 November, 2013

C'est la vie


Slope with Light Splash
@ 9" x 9"
Pastel & Charcoal
Casey Klahn


I spent the day cleaning my studio (if tape wads were quarters, this would've been a fine day). I look forward to photo sessions the next couple of nights, and you should see some new images posted here and Facebook. Might have to have an event.

03 November, 2013

Painting Outdoors

Janice Wall


Artist Janice Wall following her pastel muse in Gig Harbor, WA, October 28th., 2013.  This image needed to be posted now, because the frost is on the ground, and for many of us this last season of outdoor painting is in the memory books.

Typical for me, I just did a few plein air sessions.  I did paint a number of images out the window, though.  Does that count?

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