Happy New Year - 2012!

My well wishes go out to all of the readers of The Colorist!


This holiday, I probably won't do the popular Top Ten post, but there is a new one waiting in the wings!  I will point out the hot blogs and the blogs that roared!  Stay tuned, please!

2011 - The Blog and Art Year in Review

 

The Year 2011, In Review

All choices made here are based upon my own opinions, and not upon readership or statistics.

My Top Six Paintings Posted in 2011.

Dusk With Orange

@ 5" x 7"

Pastel

Casey Klahn

Shadow River

11" x 19"

Pastel & Charcoal

Casey Klahn

The Rain, the Light & the River

11.75" x 18.25"

Pastel

Casey Klahn

Orchard Grass

5" x 6.5"

Pastel & Charcoal

Casey Klahn

Fauvist Forest

12.3" x 10.75"

Pastel

Casey Klahn

Green Tree

6" x 4"

Pastel

Casey Klahn

My Top Six Posts.


Do You Mind?
101 Artist's Blog Topics
Summer 2011 ( My 1,000th. Post!)
Leonardo The News Hound
Potty Talk - Marcel Duchamp's (ahem) Art
Colorist Methods - My Thoughts On The Subject Of Color




My Top Six Art Events.


Oakland Workshop
Battleground Workshop
Participated as a Jurist in Sausalito
Sausalito Art Festival
SFMOMA Visit to See Matisse
Online Sale

Finished Practice

Practice:  Head Facing Right

14" x 13

Charcoal, Pastel & White Chalk on Drawing Paper

Casey Klahn

Charcoal and White Chalk

WIP - Facing Right

@14' x 15" 

Charcoal & White Chalk on Drawing Paper

Casey Klahn

For a hobby, I am re-learning the figure and the head from various sources, such as instructional books and You Tube videos.  Before I took up the landscape, this was all I did on an amateur basis.  It is crazy how much I have lost over time, and it makes the road back a little bumpy. But, fun.

Frosty The Snowman and Mr. Freeze Would Be Happy

Photo by Casey Klahn

Christmas Card

In a manger for His bed

For He is our childhood's pattern;

Day by day, like us, He grew;

He was little, weak, and helpless,

Tears and smiles, like us He knew;

And He cares when we are sad,

And he shares when we are glad. 

http://www.carols.org.uk/

Whose Got a Big Red Cherry Nose?

Little Drummer Boy

The Hundreds

Lists are fun when the topics are fun.  Here are the hundreds lists from The Colorist.  101Blog Topics and 100 Things.


Enjoy your holidays!

Medium Size Music & Fields Available

Music and Fields

8" x 12"

Pastel

Casey Klahn

$600, Framed.

Available.

The Census at Bethlehem, 1566

Peter Bruegel The Elder, 152?-1569

Color on Panel

Link

Green Tree

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Green Tree

6" x 4"

Pastel

Casey Klahn

$150, unframed

 SOLD

Inquiries.

Direct Color

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Direct Color

8" x 10"

Pastel

Casey Klahn

$300 SOLD

Italian Scene Unframed

Hotel Sol, Italy

7" x 6.5"
Pastel
Casey Klahn

This original pastel is also available, but I want you to note that it is a custom size.

Inquiries.

Field Reflections

Field Reflections

4" x 6"

Pastel

Casey Klahn

Unframed: $100

plus tax.

Yesterday was our birthday at The Colorist!  I wrote you readers a letter.

Here is another unframed work that is available:  Remnant Snow.  For all inquiries, write me an e-mail with the subject line Purchase.  Thank you.

Five Years of The Colorist

Five-Year Letter.  Click twice to read.

Kind Readers,


Today marks five years of this blog!  Thank you to the smart readers who have participated in this blog about art and art topics.


In this time, The Colorist has published 1,063 posts.  Artist's blogs don't get the huge audience of many blog genres, but we are happy for what we do receive in the form of an audience.  The audience here includes artists, art patrons and university students throughout the world.  Statistically speaking, there have been about a half a million visits here since 2007, when this all got started.  Daily visits range from 250 to almost 600 hits.


Readers come here looking for Jackson Pollock and his masterwork, Galaxy.  They seek news about the recently attributed painting, Salvator Mundi, by Leonardo da Vinci.  They are directed here by following links from other kind bloggers, among them Pin Tangle and Loriann Signori.


Of course, numbers at an artist blog are not very big as far as the broader world of the internet is concerned.  Perhaps it is the depth of images, writing, conversations and ideas that attract visitors.  Content is always cited as the key to successful blogging, and I try to follow that advice.


Very popular features at The Colorist are the Top Ten posts by artist bloggers, awarded at the end of each year.  Quotes posts and the 101 Blog Topics were also well received.


Thanks again to the readers of The Colorist for five stimulating and fun years.  The future will carry more art, interests and interaction and I look forward to it with excitement.

Now, Unframed Works

Some Unframed Pastels Seen "Fitted" But Not Assembled

Stop Me Before I Frame This Pastel!

Remnant Snow

5" x 7"

Pastel

Casey Klahn

Sold

Here is one of the few times I have ever offered a pastel, unframed. 

To make a purchase inquiry, follow these instructions, or get me on Facebook.

The updated list of available works will be posted at caseyklahn.blogspot.com.

How to purchase artworks.

Some Snow 2011