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Green Ground
3.5" x 4.5"
Pastel
Casey Klahn
20 July, 2012
18 July, 2012
15 July, 2012
Summer Painting Outdoors
This is the informal iPh photo
Forest Interior 3
@6x10.8"
Pastel
Casey Klahn
en plein air
14 July, 2012
Pastel-Box Famous
Edgar Degas
Georgia O'Keeffe
Georgia O’Keeffe’s pastels from Pilgrimage (Annie Leibovitz, 2011).
13 July, 2012
Palettes as History
Vincent van Gogh
Paul Gauguin
http://blogs.telegraph.co.uk/culture/lucydavies/100007607/why-preserve-van-goghs-palette/
12 July, 2012
Modigliani - Love, Nonsense & Life
Modigliani, not looking well, 1919.
Amedeo Modigliani (July 12, 1884 – January 24, 1920) has been the subject of a couple of feature movies. Mostly, they cover his love life, which lacked no drama. I take that back - the more recent flick is also very much about the artistic process. Critics and the public hate it, but I loved it. The metaphor of his grand premier compared to a bloody mugging in the snow is rich, and I liked the way he consulted his boyhood self from time to time.
Watching the 1958 film, Les Amants de Montparnasse, in French, is a nonsensical treat for me, since I don't understand the language.
Happy Birthday, Modi.
Here is a You Tube of his paintings streamed to some music with an Italian title about love's consequences. I like to watch these with the digital projector on the big screen. Maybe some of his great style and visual grace will rub off on me.
11 July, 2012
Ahem. I Painted in This Guy's Studio, Once. Just Sayin...
My friend, oil painter and pastelist Ken Elliott, is not shy about putting down color. Watch this fine artist create a colorist landscape, in its entirety, on video.
Yellows Across the Lake
oil on canvas, 40 x 40 inches
Ken Elliott
10 July, 2012
Hopper, with Mood Music
The work of the American artist Edward Hopper is so moody and evocative, that more than a few amateur videographers have tried to distill his images with a track. Which one of the following works best for you?
Yes, a sublime waste of time. But, you get to soak up some great Hopper while doing it.
Edward Hopper to Claude Debussy
or Benny Goodman
(and Edward Hirsch)
try Eric Satie
and finally, Mr. Tom Waits at Closing Time.
Video attributions embedded in videos.
Hopper was so tied into his subjects that when he outlived them, his output died, too. Don't be sad about that - stand up and cheer for what he gave us when he did.
09 July, 2012
High Branches
High Branches
@10" x 8"
Pastel & Charcoal
Casey Klahn
I added that edge in Photoshop. Is that fair? I feel that presentation is a good thing, especially with works on paper. In real life, though, this work would be framed with a mat.
07 July, 2012
In The Summertime
High Branches
@8" x 10"
Pastel & Charcoal
Casey Klahn
Excuse me for having nice weather, while I know many of you are suffering under extreme heat. I count my blessings.
I made an extra effort to work on my plein air at the lake this year.
I'll try to photograph the handful of pastels I completed over the holiday, and post them here, soon. Happy vacations, everyone.
Bob Dylan has something to say about summertime, too.
02 July, 2012
Go To Market
You Must Find Your Market.
Sometimes you have to push yourself to market in a cart, so strong is the inertia defending the marketplace from you. I find this especially true in the summer, when family, chores, and focus on art-making occupy my time.
Here are some great links for art marketing to get you revved-up.
What Are You Really Selling?, Cindy Haase.
Daily Paintworks, Carol Marine.
Art Biz Blog, Alyson Stanfield.
Marketing Mondays, Joanne Mattera.
The Painter's Keys, Robert Genn.
Photo attribution lost, sorry.
01 July, 2012
Palettes
"Colour Trend Visualisation,
each chart represents an individual painting with the five most prominent colours shown proportionally."
Degas, Matisse, Gauguin.
The limit of this is that all color is relative, but the idea is a knockout. Love it!
28 June, 2012
Cool Blogs You Haven't Seen
Maybe you have seen them. But for those who have not, they are recommended.
The Limited Palette Workshop, by H. Edward Brooks.
Atelier LaRose, by Steven LaRose. Formerly Fish or Cut Bait.
pastelnews at Tumblr, by Mario Vuklic.
Buckwheat. A father & son bluegrass duo. Jetta Smith.
For the Color, by Ken Elliott.
Sarah Peroutka Studios, by Sarah Peroutka.
24 June, 2012
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16 June, 2012
Fathers and History
Link
My Grandfather, Max Klahn, is the young boy pictured @ the top right. See a story about him below. Next to him at his left are Henry, my Great Grandfather and Charlotte, my Great Grandmother. Location: Quillayute Prairie, WA. Date: 1895. This remote place is about the rainiest spot in the US, and less than 5 miles inland from the Pacific Ocean. And we love it there.
My Grandfather, Max Klahn, is the young boy pictured @ the top right. See a story about him below. Next to him at his left are Henry, my Great Grandfather and Charlotte, my Great Grandmother. Location: Quillayute Prairie, WA. Date: 1895. This remote place is about the rainiest spot in the US, and less than 5 miles inland from the Pacific Ocean. And we love it there.
Father's Day is a time that I choose to remember my fore-bearers.
Grandpa Max and Grandma Anna homesteaded in the land that time forgot, the Olympic Peninsula. Think Twilight, only without the amenities. By no amenities, I mean no electricity. Did I mention no road, either? Max hiked the Olympic beach to get to work during the Great Depression, which was a hundred miles plus a little. The Indians rafted him across the rivers he couldn't ford. He worked in the logging and port towns of Hoquiam and Aberdeen.
Max and Anna had 13 children, and the seven brothers all went off to war. My father, Kenneth K. Klahn, saw heavy combat in Italy, as a member of the famous Tenth Mountain Division, US Army.
Together with my maternal grandfather, my father, brother and I worked in the woods when I was four years old. Did I say I worked? Of course, I played.
Today, we honor my father-in-law who passed away Thursday. He was a wheat farmer, and a WW II veteran. He could outwork five oversized men half his age, and feed the world while he was at it. You cannot replace him, which is a fact.
Father's Day is Sunday. A local point of pride is the fact that Father's Day was invented in 1910, in Spokane, WA, by Mrs. Sonora Smart Dodd. It is good to remember our fathers.
14 June, 2012
Matisse on Color
1953
I just ordered a book of essays by and about Henri Matisse. This quote is from the essay, The Role and Modalities of Color, 1945.
08 June, 2012
Tip-Toe This Line
This critique of my work offers some insight into the lines I try to straddle.
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Keep your ear to the ground and your heart in a safe place, you never know when you'll find yourself wandering...
Coming into form, Casey Klahn's art strives to join the abstract with the ingenuity of landscape detail. You could say he tip-toes this line with ease, when in reality a line remains to be seen. The human eye is trained to view things which manifest in our hearts.
The overall feel (of Klahn's art) refuses to be labeled with simple adjectives, rather wishes to be defined by thought patterns and feelings adapted into emotion. Keep your ear to the ground and your heart in a safe place, you never know when you'll find yourself wandering...
This is a place where man has seldom come. The forest's age is conveyed with dynamic precision. The balance...would have to be its best quality. With just the right amount of color where it needs to be, you really get a sense of how much control the artist has with the instruments at his disposal.
When it comes down to it, Casey Klahn's artwork has a mood all its own. The notion to single out a central theme or idea works against him in many cases, requiring his viewers to dig deep within themselves to try and identify a hidden meaning in many of his works.
When it comes down to it, Casey Klahn's artwork has a mood all its own. The notion to single out a central theme or idea works against him in many cases, requiring his viewers to dig deep within themselves to try and identify a hidden meaning in many of his works.
The human mind is only as open and deep as we make it, and Casey thrives on exploiting those pits which open in the deepest and darkest corners. This is what makes him such a proliferate artist and will continue to profile him for years to come.
Terry Gildow
There is a reception Friday, 5-9 PM at the Life Center Clearstory Gallery. Color & Expression Now. (509)327-4422
1202 N. Government Way, Spokane WA 99224.
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