Scene in the Studio / An Excuse for a Composition

The Still Life Studio. 2015. 15.25" x 11.25." Pastel & Graphite. Casey Klahn.

The Moonlit Forest

If Moonlight Touched the Forest, Would That Perfect It? 2015.
11.3" x 7"
Pastel & Graphite
Casey Klahn

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.

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.

Daisy

1 Piece in the Shape of a Daisy. 6.75" x 12.5" Pastel. Casey Klahn.

Sixth Sense Series

s/6 Interior with Woman. 2015. 9.75" x 6.5." Pastel. Casey Klahn.

Red Interior with Figures

Interior with Mother and Child. Red Motif. 2015. Pastel, Oil & Graphite. 12.25" x 9." Casey Klahn.

Yellow Foils Turquoise

A Modernist Sensitivity with Yellow. 2015. Pastel, Oil, Graphite on Canson. 12" x 9." Casey Klahn.

Coin Woman

Woman. 1 Coin. 2014-15. Pastel, Oil, Compressed Charcoal. 22" x 15." Casey Klahn.

The Whole Picture

Vase of Roses. 2015. Pastel & Graphite. 15" x 10.75." Casey Klahn.

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.

Luv Bo

Love Bouquet with Red Violet & Yellow. 2015. 23" x 17." Pastel & Other Media. Casey Klahn. Image cropped.

Drinking Again

The Romantic. The Green Faerie. 2015. 14 1/8th" x 10." Pastel & Compressed Charcoal. Casey Klahn.

If I Gave Sunflowers

Vincent with Yellow and Blue. 2015. 9.25" x 13.9." Pastel, Oil & Graphite. Casey Klahn.

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.

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5 Degree Floral Tilt. 2015. 9.5" x 10." Pastel. Casey Klahn.

Pavilion

Pavilion. 2015. 

14" x 10" 

Pastel 

Casey Klahn

2 Sunflowers 4

2 Sunflower Arrangements, 4 Sunflowers. 2015. Pastel, Oil & Compressed Charcoal. 14" x 13." Casey Klahn.

One Woman

Woman. 1 Coin. 2014-15. Pastel, Oil, Compressed Charcoal. 22" x 15." Casey Klahn.

Bouquet on Red - Mixed Media

The Red Table Top. 2015. 14.25" x 13.25." Pastel, Oil, Compressed Charcoal & Graphite. Casey Klahn.