Pink

Pink Forest
7.3" x 5.3"
Pastel
Casey Klahn

Pinks & Greens
7.8" x 6"

Pastel

Casey Klahn

Hill with Red Sky
12.5" x 9.5"
Pastel
Casey Klahn

The Four Seasons, Winter
14” x 10”

Pastel

Casey Klahn

The color pink is interesting for being really just light red, yet it has it's own name! Do blue and yellow demand equal treatment? Is it fair that light blue is just that, "light blue"?

The web is replete with sites that say things about pink, but I wish to avoid them. Their general bent is to assign meaning to the color, and I prefer to let you make your own associations. And my direction as a "colorist" artist leads me to avoid assigning meaning to any color. I am more interested in how pink interacts with other colors, and what the value ranges do to change these interactions.

The story of these paintings in pinks and greens is that I visualized doing an artwork with these colors, but it took me months of failure to finally get it the way I liked it. Then, what I learned from that first success (entitled "Pinks & Greens," above) enabled me to create more of them with this color composition.