Very recent paintings. That I am doing portraits is news to me! I don't plan ahead.
26 July, 2015
17 July, 2015
Internet, Shminternet
How important is your ISP (internet service provider)? I am finding out as I suffer from the loss of mine. My home without internet? I feel "homeless!"
The Colorist should be back up soon, dear readers. Thanks for your visits.
Meanwhile, here is some art and a silly shopped pic of moi.
The Colorist should be back up soon, dear readers. Thanks for your visits.
Meanwhile, here is some art and a silly shopped pic of moi.
03 June, 2015
29 May, 2015
Blue Nude
Biskra Blue Nude. 2015. Pastel, Charcoal & Graphite. 17" x 14.75." Casey Klahn.
Sketch, White Nude on Blue. 2015. Graphite & Pastel. @6." Casey Klahn.
Blue Nude. Digital Drawing. Large. Casey Klahn.
My inspiration for the blue nudes originates with the 1907 work of the same subject by Henri Matisse, shown below. A disrobed woman in Algeria was his model, and the painting reflects his search for new imagery in north Africa.
Matisse, in Biskra, Algeria: "I went from one surprise to the next - without being able to tell if my amazement came from the vastness of the country, or the new types of human being I was seeing, or from purely pictorial emotions."
A conversation between Picasso and Walter Pach, while viewing Matisse's Blue Nude: "Does that interest you?" asked Picasso. "In a way, yes...it interests me like a blow between the eyes. I don't know what he is thinking." "Neither do I," said Picasso. "If he wants to make a woman, let him make a woman. If he wants to make a design, let him make a design. This is between the two."
Late in his life, in 1952, Matisse revisited the Blue Nude title with his series of famous cut-outs.
Henri Matisse, 1907, Blue Nude (Souvenir de Biskra), Nu bleu: Souvenir de Biskra, oil on canvas, 92.1 x 140.3 cm (36 1/4 x 55 1/4 in.), Cone collection, Baltimore Museum of Art.
26 May, 2015
Good Morning 99
This Day as Memory. 2015. Pastel, Oil, Graphite. 16" x 15." Casey Klahn.
This is #99/100 of my 100 Lives project.
18 May, 2015
05 May, 2015
02 May, 2015
Life Painting
Wanda. 2015. Pastel, Conté Crayon, Charcoal & Graphite.12" x 8.5." All rag brown Stonehenge vellum. Casey Klahn.
27 April, 2015
Sean Scully on Henri Matisse
Photo: Casey Klahn.
Moroccan Cafe. 1912-13.
o/c, 176x210 cm
Henri Matisse
Four Dimensions
Henri Matisse
Four Dimensions
This older, 40 minute video of Sean Scully's commentary on Henri Matisse is well worth seeing. His particular understanding of Matisse's time in Morocco provided brilliant insights for me. I have always been challenged by the paintings done in the North African country, such as Moroccan Café, which Scully takes apart in this video. Remember that Matisse's Blue Nudes were all generated by his North African experiences. Enjoy.
ARTISTS' JOURNEYS: SEAN SCULLY ON HENRI MATISSE
24 April, 2015
More Workshop Photos - Washington State
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| Casey Klahn - lecture on the Artist's Ideas. I appreciated the attentive artists who were eager to learn. |
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| Demonstration of landscape painting - Skagit Valley area, Washington State. |
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| Floral demo. |
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| Casey Klahn |
All Photos: Evelyn Brody.
21 April, 2015
Workshop Washington State
Casey demonstrating landscape painting at the Dakota Workshop Center, Mt Vernon, WA.
Photo: Coizie Bettinger.
18 artists and I enjoyed painting with respect to one's individual voice and ideas in the historic La Conner, Washington area last week. I painted 4 demos and 1 or 2 resolutions of student works. The class was attentive and eager to learn, and I am grateful to Dakota for this first opportunity to teach at a national workshop center located right here in my home state.
My workshop schedule updates. I am dreaming of teaching in Provence, Germany and Italy in upcoming years, as well as NYC and many venues throughout the USA. Dates for those TBA.
Timid Barn on the Slough Shore Road. 2015 9.5" x 16.75." Pastel and Oil. Casey Klahn.
10 April, 2015
06 April, 2015
Plastic Flowers
Plastic Flowers Electric Boogaloo. 2015. 20" x 12.25." Pastel, Oil & Compressed Charcoal. Casey Klahn.
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
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