Plastic Flowers Electric Boogaloo. 2015. 20" x 12.25." Pastel, Oil & Compressed Charcoal. Casey Klahn.
06 April, 2015
03 April, 2015
Crown of Thorns
Christ with Crown of Thorns (1450~)
55×39 cm / Tempera on Wood.
Fra Angelico (@1395-1455)
Location: the dome in Leghorn, It.
31 March, 2015
Scene in the Studio / An Excuse for a Composition
The Still Life Studio. 2015. 15.25" x 11.25." Pastel & Graphite. Casey Klahn.
29 March, 2015
The Moonlit Forest
If Moonlight Touched the Forest, Would That Perfect It? 2015.
11.3" x 7"
Pastel & Graphite
Casey Klahn
23 March, 2015
Saint Petersburg
Meeting The Master, with Odd Nerdrum.
The writer Torgrim Eggen interviews Odd Nerdrum at the cultural heart of Russia, visiting the Hermitage Museum, the State Russian Museum, St. Isaac's cathedral and the Repin Academy.
I toured the same museum and sights in Russia last August. In this video, Norwegian artist Odd Nerdrum is paying hommage to Rembrandt, in the same manner that I paid hommage to Matisse when I went to St Petersburg. Read I Ascended Alone, where I recount my own life-changing trip.
22 March, 2015
Red Dirt Twilight
Red Dirt Intimidation, Intimacy and Insouciance. Twilight. 2015. 15.25" x 11.75." Pastel, Oil, Vine Charcoal, and Graphite. Casey Klahn. Demo painted in South Carolina this week.
14 March, 2015
10 March, 2015
09 March, 2015
Red Interior with Figures
Interior with Mother and Child. Red Motif. 2015. Pastel, Oil & Graphite. 12.25" x 9." Casey Klahn.
04 March, 2015
Yellow Foils Turquoise
A Modernist Sensitivity with Yellow. 2015. Pastel, Oil, Graphite on Canson. 12" x 9." Casey Klahn.
28 February, 2015
26 February, 2015
20 February, 2015
Ceramics Life
Counting Vessels. 2014-15. 13.5" x 9.5." Pastel, Oil, Compressed Charcoal & Graphite. Casey Klahn.
I am invariably taken in by texture in paintings I see. But, there has to be something more to keep my interest. In the end, no technical trick can ever please me. Ideas. Expression. Space. These make me rest on an image.
17 February, 2015
Luv Bo
Love Bouquet with Red Violet & Yellow. 2015. 23" x 17." Pastel & Other Media. Casey Klahn. Image cropped.
15 February, 2015
Drinking Again
The Romantic. The Green Faerie. 2015. 14 1/8th" x 10." Pastel & Compressed Charcoal. Casey Klahn.
12 February, 2015
If I Gave Sunflowers
Vincent with Yellow and Blue. 2015. 9.25" x 13.9." Pastel, Oil & Graphite. Casey Klahn.
08 February, 2015
Group of Ballerinas on a Stage
Stage Fright. 2015.
@ 11" x 14"
Pastel & Graphite
Casey Klahn
I've been wanting to do a grouping of figures for a long time. This began as a landscape with trees, but they looked so much like heads and torsos that I went with the suggestion of a stage scene with ballerinas.
07 February, 2015
03 February, 2015
30 January, 2015
2 Sunflowers 4
2 Sunflower Arrangements, 4 Sunflowers. 2015. Pastel, Oil & Compressed Charcoal. 14" x 13." Casey Klahn.
29 January, 2015
24 January, 2015
Bouquet on Red - Mixed Media
The Red Table Top. 2015. 14.25" x 13.25." Pastel, Oil, Compressed Charcoal & Graphite. Casey Klahn.
23 January, 2015
Bottles - Mixed Media
Arrangement with Pink, Green, Black and White. 2015. 8.9" x 12.25." Pastel, Compressed Charcoal and Oil. Casey Klahn.
19 January, 2015
Let's Explain This Something Right Now
Today, I am donning the hat of a "Guest Blogger" at Gail Sibley's blog, How to Pastel. The occasion is to explain to Gail's readers what the inspiration for my 100 Still Life works is. Go see if I did that, please.
Still Life Works.
14 January, 2015
08 January, 2015
Arrangements Made
The Arrangements at the Grand. 2015.
Pastel, Oil, Charcoal & Graphite
12" x 12.75."
Casey Klahn
03 January, 2015
Red Over Blue
Red Flowers in an Umber Vase. 2014.
16.3" x 10."
Pastel & Oil.
Casey Klahn
100 still life project.
01 January, 2015
26 December, 2014
Self Portrait with Stocking Cap
Self Portrait with Stocking Cap. 2014.
10.5" x 6.25."
Pastel & Graphite over a Giclée on Arches Paper.
Casey Klahn.
24 December, 2014
Merry Christmas. 2014.
Beato Angelico, Madonna of Humility, (1425).
173 x 72 cm
Tempera painting on wood and gold leaf application
National Museum of St. Matthew, Pisa
19 December, 2014
The Hundred
Pink Ladies. 2014.
@12" x 10"
Pastel & Charcoal
Casey Klahn
Here is the latest work in my quest to make 100 florals, all in different styles. So far, so good (mostly). The last 50 are the biggest challenge in trying to find different things to say.
15 December, 2014
08 December, 2014
Workshops Update
Upcoming workshops:
2015
Rock Hill, SC Mar 18-20 / Full. Wait list available.
Mt Vernon, WA / Dakota Pastels Apr 16-18
New York City / with Ellen Eagle and Casey Klahn TBA / June?
Marshfield Hills, MA Aug 10-14
Gainesville, VA Sep 12, 13
Umbria, Italy Oct 7-21
2016
Florence, Italy
Portland, ME
05 December, 2014
What? About the Windowsill.
Windowsill in Winter Light. 2014. 12.5" x 8.5" Pastel & Graphite. Casey Klahn.
03 December, 2014
Movement as an Idea
5 Green Roses. The Ark of Movement. 2014.
10.75" x 10.25"
Pastel, Oil & Graphite
Casey Klahn
Use of the word "ark" is on purpose.
01 December, 2014
Brown Sauce
"There must be no more pictures covered in brown sauce."
Edvard Munch.
A work of art must carry in itself its complete significance and impose it upon the beholder even before he can identify the subject-matter. Henri Matisse.
My technique is unreliable... Jim Morgan.
We have our arts so we won't die of truth. Friedrich Nietzsche.
I can explain the picture to you, and you will understand the explanation, but you will not understand the picture. Pablo Picasso.
Any fool can make something complicated. It takes a genius to make it simple. Woody Guthrie.
There is only one valuable thing in art: the thing you cannot explain. Georges Braque.
Genius is finding the invisible link between things. Vladimir Nabokov.
Mere color, unspoiled by meaning, and unallied with definite form, can speak to the soul in a thousand different ways. Oscar Wilde.
Anyone who says you can't see a thought simply doesn't know art. Wynetka Ann Reynolds.
Whoever wishes to devote himself to painting should begin by cutting out his own tongue. Henri Matisse.
Without...love, there can no longer be any dependable criteria of observation and therefore no longer any art. Henri Matisse.
Artwork above:
Self-Portrait (in distress), 1919 / Edvard Munch.
Munch Museum, Oslo, Norway.
Oil on canvas, 151 x 130 cm
29 November, 2014
100 Anti-Florals / Daily
100 Anti-Florals / Daily.
The Sun & the Moon in the Same Northern Orbit. 2014.
13.3" x 9"
Pastel, Oil, Charcoal & Graphite.
Casey Klahn
28 November, 2014
Steal Like An Artist
The Back of a Figurine by Matisse. 2014.
@10" x 8"
Pastel & Charcoal
Casey Klahn
ART THEFT!
Photo by:
Olya Powzaniuk
27 November, 2014
26 November, 2014
25 November, 2014
New Jersey Reverie
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Memories of my workshops in New Jersey / November, 2014.
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| Casey Klahn / Artist's Banners at Crow Creek Farm, Goshen, New Jersey. Studios of Stan Sperlak. Photo: Stan Sperlak. |
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| Casey Klahn / Demo at Crow Creek Farm. Photo: Stan Sperlak. |
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| Casey Klahn / Demo at Stan's Studio. |
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| Casey Klahn / Demo at Christina Debarry's Studio, Florham Park, NJ. |
12 November, 2014
06 November, 2014
05 November, 2014
This'll Be Fun!
New York City.
I'll be in New York to see the Matisse Cut-Outs exhibit at the MoMA in a little over a week. I recently saw about 30 works by Henri Matisse in Russia. I'm still blogging about that trip, but the posts to date are here:
I Ascended Alone.
Vermillion Ideas.
The Cut-Outs began at the Tate, in London. Here is the support for this super-exhibition:
Henri Matisse: The Cut-Outs at Tate Modern.
Blue Certainty.
Matisse: Video Support.
Please return here for my reports on this sure-to-be-incredible trip!
03 November, 2014
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