Blue Water
10" x 5"
Pastel
Casey Klahn
My new portfolio blog, Intimate Sizes, features small works available in framed or unframed formats. Have a look!
04 August, 2013
01 August, 2013
New Blog!
The popularity of my portfolio blog, currentcaseyklahn.blogspot (Casey Klahn Art Portfolio of Available Works) has been surprising. 26,500 pageviews in 9 month!
Here is what I intentionally left out of that portfolio blog: the small works. Now, I am introducing a new portfolio blog that covers the works under 12 inches. Casey Klahn Art - Intimate Sizes, small works available in framed or unframed formats fills that gap, and may be seen here. 500 hits in one day makes me think it will be another great place to showcase new works. And, I am grateful to my kind readers.
Portfolio of Medium & Large Works.
Small Works Portfolio.
31 July, 2013
What Does Yellow Taste Like?
Canola Flavor
7" x 11"
Pastel
Casey Klahn
Please click on the image to see the whole cropping
24 July, 2013
On Color! Resolutions at The MADDEN
Artists Ken Elliott and Casey Klahn taught On Color! Color Breakthrough at the Denver MADDEN Museum of Art July 20 & 21st. 25 artists participated.
16 July, 2013
One Oh One - Blog Topics
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Don't tell me you have nothing to post about:
100 Things I Love About Art
Highlight a Master Artist
Compare Two Master Artists
Your Subjects
Review Your Exhibit
Goal Setting
Photo Journal an Event
Studio Description or Photos
Other Social Media Besides the Blog
Museum Visit
Museum Highlight
List of Links Out to Other Art Blogs
Interview
You Tube of an Art Topic
Tips On Your Media
Art History Topic
Rant
Praise
Personal Story
Personal Opinion
Art Lesson That is Authentically Different
How To Do a Blogger (Wordpress) Task, such as embedding a hotlink in a comment
Guest Blogger
Art News
Take Apart One of Your Paintings
Your Drawings
Group Drawings On a Topic
Post Off Topic (Cuisine/Auto Repair/ Target Shooting/Macrame)
Your Bio
Resume
One Sheet
604 Ideas
Book Review
Highlight a New Blogger
Write an Essay
Make That Essay Into a Series
Take a Poll
Find Out What Your Social Objects Are and Post Them
Meet Another Blogger (Post a Picture)
A Local Attraction
An Obituary
Mind Map Your Blog
Post About Your Mother
Foreign Country
A List of Your Favorite Posts
Your Other Blog(s)
Your Website
An Orginization or Society
Coffee
Illuminated Umber Slope
10" x 16"
Pastel
Casey Klahn
Technique That You "Own"
An Art Goal
Your Works from Art School
Art Materials - Something Obscure
Anything That Really Interests You
Something That Happened To You That Was New, Odd, Unusual or Funny.
Newsletter Update
Holiday Greetings
Cats
Another Art Form - Not Your Own
An Art Genre, Such as Portraiture
Participate in a Blog Project
Become an Authority Blog
Any Event That You Find Interesting
A Magazine Article
Research That You Have Done
A Movie Review
Report On An Historical Art Movement
Your Upcoming Exhibit
Post a Fantastic Photoshop of Yourself on the Banks of the Seine with van Gogh
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An Interesting iPhone App
A PANO Outside of Your Studio
Highlight a Great Post on Another Blog and Make a Link
Make Up a Silly Prize and Award it to Someone
Any Excuse to Post a Link List of Your Blogger Chums
Your Insights on the Business of Being an Artist
Your Sketchbook
Write a Formal Critique
Your Influences
Small Studies
The Art Festival
Quotes
Your Slideshow
Your Video
Details About Your Palette
Your "Take" on the Color Wheel
Tricks for Establishing a Value Composition
Studio Tips
An Art Tool You Made Yourself
Patrons or Collectors
Your Faith and Art
Why You Paint or Draw in Your Style
Art and Health
Art Philosophy
Your painting Holiday or Road Trip
Press Release
Motivational Words, Sentence or Essay
Photos or Paintings of Snow
Another Artist's Studio That You Admire
Any List That is Topical
The Year In Review
Post Your Latest Artwork
This post was bumped from 2011.
14 July, 2013
MADDEN
The MADDEN Museum of Art
Denver, CO
July 15 - August 30, 2013.
I won't have my art up until after the 20, 21st.
13 July, 2013
On Color! Quotes
09 July, 2013
Colorists Coloring With Colors
What follows is a post first published in August of 2012.
Previous Post: Colorist Methods - My Thoughts On The Subject Of Color.
This is the second post of an undetermined number of posts about the subject of color use.
There is some danger in this subject for both of us. For me, I risk either writing inanity, banality or nonsense. For you, probably the worst risk is that you will become convinced that these theories I write will impart some method. There will be no methodology about color use here. Just ideas, tips, and histories. That is about as good as it can get, because we enter this aware of the personal nature of one's color use, called color sense, and it is known by many who study color that people see and respond to color in a manner different each from the other. If there is any commiseration on color feelings, then these ideas are already widely known.
Some Thoughts:
- Starting with a color idea involves, for me, either choosing one bright, pure color, or designing a color triad in my mind at the very first part of the process.
- Reacting to the previous color involves intuitive choice, and/or some reference to known color properties, such as what compliments or what harmonizes the colors already laid down.
- Keep looking at the work and making adjustments as you progress.
- Respond to problems to create the harmony that you seek.
Fauvism is the first school or movement we think of when we are faced with funny color in artwork. The Fauvists were a crazy bunch of Frenchmen, mostly, who painted in the Modern era. Among their ranks were Vlamink, Rouault, Derain, and the King of the Fauves, Henri Matisse. The ideas they shared involved a reaction to earlier movements and the late Impressionist school of thought. They wanted bright, pure colors versus enhanced local color and an explanation of light. Their work was also considered painterly in the use of bold brushstrokes.
There will be no methodology about color use here.
I don't seek color that is a response to local color, meaning that that I don't choose a color that is purposefully not the actual (local) color. I just choose the color I want, and usually for personal reasons. It may often be the local color, and that is perfectly okay with me, especially because I am now set to react to the color I just used. I am a terrible reactionary in the artistic sense!
This approach, I think, is better than aiming for the "wrong" color or the opposite of the local color, because these methods can be formulaic. One is required to prejudice his choice when he will not choose the local color.
This approach, I think, is better than aiming for the "wrong" color or the opposite of the local color, because these methods can be formulaic. One is required to prejudice his choice when he will not choose the local color.
06 July, 2013
Atelier Of Ellen Eagle
Phyllis, 2002
11 3/4" x 7 7/8"
Pastel on Pumice Board
Ellen Eagle
sensitive
Atelier is the French word for that place where you do your painting. It feels more intimate than the word, "studio." In her new book, Ellen Eagle has invited you into her atelier and offered you a look at her expertise and practices. Pastel Painting Atelier covers basics, such as studio set-up, pastel choices, brands, and pastel tools and surfaces. But the real experience of reading her book is like that of participating in a Japanese tea ceremony. You are made to feel special and revelations abound.
observant
Ellen spotlights both historic and contemporary artists working in pastel. A favorite section of the book for me was the in-depth walk through of her process where she unpacks her thoughts, feelings, and methods while showing progress on portrait, figure, and still life works.
attentive
The following is what Ellen wrote to you, the readers of The Colorist and Pastel Workshop.
Pastel Painting Atelier is my first book. I began the writing by entering my studio. I looked into my work environment and the treasured tools of my trade. My opening preface emerged naturally, and that personal statement set the tone for the whole book. Throughout, I wrote about my inspirations and hands-on working practices. My goal was to suggest to the reader ways to open up his and her own path.
I also reached beyond my studio, into the ever-evolving history of our gorgeous medium. It was very important to me to exalt the magnificent lineage of artists who, across centuries and continents and styles, continue to bequeath to us breathtaking works in pastel, artists who daily transform powder into monument. I closed the book with an index of public collections in which to view firsthand the enduring beauty of our collective endeavor.
Ellen Eagle.
intimate
ESSENTIAL LESSONS IN TECHNIQUES, PRACTICES AND MATERIALS
03 July, 2013
Anticipate
Pastels and Anticipation!
Have a great Independence Day week, and when you return here in a few days, I will have an exclusive greeting for you from artist and author Ellen Eagle, written just for the readers of The Colorist!
01 July, 2013
ArtHamptons! July 11-14, 2013
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Start making plans for your road trip to The Hamptons, on Long Island, NY. If you make it you'll get to see up to nine of my recent works, most of which are dated 2013. The Galerie LuCo, which is hosting my pastels, is anchored by the incredible glass sculptures of Marlene Rose. Also, see exciting mixed media pieces by Carolina Cleere.
Casey Klahn
ArtHamptons
Galerie LuCo (Booth #112)
Marlene Rose, of Galerie LuCo.
Bridgehampton, NY
30 June, 2013
Now I'm Trying Feedly
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Bloglovin is fine, but Feedly seems to over-arch my non-blog world, too. I'm going to try it. Yes, it offers to vacuum up your Google Reader and it's a bit scary how it does it! No questions asked, just a "hoover" noise and wham! Your GR stuff is on Feedly, now.
To add to the creepy factor, I cannot give you a link because it goes straight to my iCloud. Anyway, I will be trying it out, as I am trying out multiple new feeds.
Okay, here is the About link to Feedly.
Google Reader, I hardly knew you...
29 June, 2013
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24 June, 2013
Bye Bye, Google Reader
The soon-coming demise of Google Reader fulfills the tenants of Murphy's Law. In particular, the one about when something is really good, it will be discontinued.
Please take the time to switch my humble blog over to your new feed service, kind reader.
I very much like Cristina Dalla Valentina's blog, and here is her suggestion to use Feedly as an alternative. What is your idea or plan?
22 June, 2013
The Colorist Slope is a Slippery One
Illuminated Umber Slope
10" x 16"
Pastel & Charcoal
Casey Klahn
Hue. Value. Intensity.
Colorism.
20 June, 2013
09 June, 2013
The River Revisited
The Lazy River
19" x 25"
Pastel
Casey Klahn
I didn't like the color on the earlier photo, so we re-shot The Lazy River last week. This one is more accurate.
Why not add Satchmo?
Why are these people having so much fun? I think concerts are fun, but these peeps are swingin'. It's 1958, which is a good vintage. I was born in 1958.
The Newport Jazz Festival (Rhode Island) was started only four years prior to this performance by Louis Armstrong. I looked at their website. It looks like a faded simile of it's once fantastic self. Like a bag with all the gas let out. I don't know how you top The Satch, anyway. I think they rate his performance as their high water mark.
Maybe I'm waxing too nostalgic about it. Although I avoid, like the plague, the subject of sympathy in my art, I do like it in music. I'm not much of a music person, to be sure. I don't know which end of the horn the sound comes out. This guy: Sippican Cottage, knows a lot about music, and he comments on it all the time. If you aren't reading his blog, you are missing out on the best prose in the interweb-osphere.
About second number 23 in the video, you see this Caucasian lady (we used to call women ladies back then, but for a host of reasons that has fallen out of favor) start to mouth his lyrics. That moment in the song, and it is early-on, you see the audience has totally boughten into his performance. They are wrapped around his little finger, and that finger will be pushing valves on his blare like no other performer we remember. He was called, "Pops" by his friends, and we all felt like his friends. But, his music was anything but "pop." It was Jazz, in all its glory: the music we listened to before that rolly type came ashore from a foreign land. It was American, and it was crazy, free and wild.
Don't get me started on the Fifties, either. Those were salad days for American art. Mark Tobey, Jackson Pollock and Willem de Kooning were putting their expressionist versions of the same ideas as Louise on canvas. Abstractionist notes and marks were colluding to turn our culture on its ear.
Are you still on your ear? Just wondering. Maybe your art, or your music, needs a little goose in the posterior. Mr. Armstrong would approve of that.
04 June, 2013
A Haunting Passed
Public Sale
10" x 19"
Charcoal & Pastel
Casey Klahn
This layout and mood reminded me of a painting by Andrew Wyeth, so as an hommage I titled this Public Sale.
01 June, 2013
30 May, 2013
29 May, 2013
Panorama in Yellows
Click on the image to see the full view.
Canola Panorama
6" x 14"
Pastel
Casey Klahn
26 May, 2013
I Am A Civil War Artist This Memorial Day Weekend!
I Am A Civil War Artist This Memorial Day Weekend!
Imagine my delight at being out among hundreds of costumed actors; the solders in dark blue uniforms and the ladies in hooped skirt outfits. I am getting some great sketches, and did one plein air pastel session today. I get very few opportunities at drawing people, so it is an artist's heaven.
Please look for some images to be posted in the next few days.
The Civil War is remembered for having started 152 years ago this past April.
See what I mean?
18 May, 2013
Walt Disney Presents: Four Artists On Location, 1958
This early TV episode gives you the old "studio-president-sits-at-his-desk-and-pontificates" treatment. But, given it's Walt Disney, and given that he is reading from The Art Spirit, by Robert Henri, I think you will profit by watching this.
The premise of this film short is the contrast between the regimented studio production, where everything must fit animation cells like a glove, versus the natural inclination of the artist to do his own thing. And, if you haven't read Henri's 1923 master book on American art sensibilities, you will be surprised at his stance of grasping your own independent ideas and style.
Robert Henri wrote of Thomas Eakins, "His vision was not touched by fashion." I like the description from the negative. There is a counter-movement to the artist's way; he doesn't swim up stream to cooperate, but to counter the school.
It seems to me that Disney knew he had a studio of artists, and if they were going to be good at all, they needed to be let off the leash occasionally.
Walt Disney
15 May, 2013
White Tree
White Tree Study
12.5" x 6.75"
Pastel
Casey Klahn
View the recent professional interview that covers my studio practice here.
In other news, I am working daily (with early-ups!) to get ready for exhibitions in Albuquerque, NM and The Hamptons on Long Island. I will give links when time gets closer.
12 May, 2013
Ready To Ship To New Mexico!
This pastel is framed and ready to ship to the June, 2013 IAPS (International Association of Pastel Societies) exhibit and convention in Albuquerque, NM.
See more about IAPS here.
04 May, 2013
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29 April, 2013
Video Interview of Casey
Here is the premier of the professionally filmed documentary, The Colorist Idea, with Casey Klahn. Film by Kathleen Secrest and Mark Forman.
26 April, 2013
IAPS!
The River Blue
11" x 15"
Pastel
Casey Klahn
The River Blue has been selected to show at the International Association of Pastel Societies (IAPS) Tenth Biennial Convention in Albequerquie, NM. The exhibit is the Twenty-Second Juried Exhibition and will be June 6-9th., 2013.
24 April, 2013
Durango Photo Wrap Up
Every once in a while I do leave my studio and get to mingle with other artists. Here is a photo review of my trip to the Four Corners area of Colorado to teach a workshop. I am overflowing with visual stimulus and will be creating works from this trip for a long time.
This was the See Differently - Authenticity & Your Art curriculum, with a third day added for outdoor work. I will share more about the event later.
Also, while enjoying the hospitality at the ranch studio of artist Lorraine Trenholm, I talked her into starting a blog. I will link it for you soon!
18 April, 2013
The Storm Begins On High
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The progress of a pastel drawing.
The Storm Begins On High
9 x 23
15 April, 2013
For Over Six Years I Have Tried To Explain My Method To You Here at The Colorist
...but this one video finally sums it up in two minutes. Hold on!
13 April, 2013
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