Remember 100 Things

This is a re-post from 2011.  I still love these 100 Things About Art.

River Land in Diffusion

7" x 5"

Pastel

Casey Klahn

Why a hundred things? Because it is an interesting exercise in editing.

These are not listed in any order.

1. Color
2. Graphite
3. Willlem de Kooning
4. Paper
5. Art Studios
6. Galleries
7. Pastel Sticks
8. Outdoor Art Fairs
9. Art Societies
10. Form
11. Charcoal
12. French Easels
13. The Colorist Blog
14. Italy
15. Open Air
16. The Figure
17. Landscapes
18. Proportion
19. Collectors
20. Children
21. Henri Matisse
22. Cartoons
23. Wolf Kahn
24. Rocks
25. Jimmy Wright
26. Artist's Models
27. Wood
28. Trees
29. Blue
30. Sculpture
31. Love
32. Black
33. Pigment
34. God
35. Unity
36. Courage
37. Emotion
38. Mass
39. Mary Cassatt
40. Andrew Wyeth
41. Gesture
42. Books
43. Contradiction
44. Museum Collections
45. Weight
46. Patronage
47. Illumination
48. Rosalba Carriera
49. Florence in 1504
50. Flow
51. Instability
52. Countenance
53. The Agony and the Ecstasy
54. Balance
55. Bob Dylan
56. Lines
57. Creativity
58. Plastic Space
59. Analogies
60. Pollock (Movie)
61. Gray
62. Artist's Traits
63. Sketch Books
64. Abstraction
65. Realism
66. Helen Frankenthaler
67. Art History
68. America
69. Intuition
70. The Golden Rectangle
71. Pablo Picasso
72. New York in 1950
73. Master Copies
74. Art Stores
75. Edgar Degas
76. Exhibitions
77. Mark Rothko
78. Optimism
79. Rome in 1512
80. Dimension
81. Leonardo da Vinci
82. The Palette
83. Studio Easels
84. Paris in 1904
85. Taborets
86. Architecture
87. Caravaggio
88. The Twentieth Century
89. Scale
90. Openings
91.  Vincent van Gogh
92.  Artist's Blogs
93.  Water
94.  Clay
95. Cigar Boxes
96. Influences
97. Yellow
98. The Colorist Daily
99. Erasers
100.  Vision

What are your 100 things?

Update - Update

You are owed another update of my studio activities. First, pour yourself a cup of coffee.



The studio is a buzz with framing for my upcoming show in California, the Sausalito Art Festival. I'm a little unsure of the number, but I may have around 35 - 40 originals for my upcoming exhibitions.



Have another cup? Dark roast, I hope. For some unknown reason my statistics at The Colorist have gone ballistic. Almost quadrupled on the best days. Much of this uptick is hits to this page. I cannot figure it out.

Other recent posts include 100 Things I Love About Art, and When Bloggers Meet.



Daily posting of miniature pastels, as well as an occasional medium sized work, is now going on at The Colorist Daily. This is the time to buy a small work under $100.



My search for gallery space and exhibitions may be yielding some fruit soon. I'll keep you posted when dates are firmed up. The Hoquiam River exhibition is penciled in for September 2011.



On the easels, I am developing my voice as a figure artist by studying the masters. Da Vinci and Degas are my current muses. I often post those at Pastel, but you may see some here, soon.

Two books I am reading are: Master Class in Figure Drawing and Degas, By Himself. Hale's classic instruction in Master Class has me drawing various parts of anatomy an area at a time. I am learning more stuff about the rib cage than I ever thought existed. My Nurse Practitioner wife brought home a medical anatomy book as reference material, too.




I continue to thrill at the works of Edgar Degas. His familiarity with proportion and anatomy are only the beginning. I never realized how much he departs from the real before. All because his gestures, forms and movement are so believable. The book - mine is published by Barnes & Noble Books - is richly illustrated, has a woven binding and nice, heavyweight paper. Lovely.

Edgar Degas
Dancer

Finally, in the subject of figures, our blogger friend Astrid Volquardsen, has posted one of her recent figure paintings: Eva in the Bath. Well worth your look.

100 Things I Love About Art

Winter Light
11.5" x 14.25"
Pastel
Casey Klahn

Why a hundred things? Because it is an interesting exercise in editing.

These are not listed in any order.

1. Color
2. Graphite
3. Willlem de Kooning
4. Paper
   
5. Art Studios
   
6. Galleries
7. Pastel Sticks
8. Outdoor Art Fairs
   
9. Art Societies
10. Form
    
11. Charcoal
12. French Easels
13. The Colorist Blog
14. Italy
15. Open Air
16. The Figure
17. Landscapes
18. Proportion
    
19. Collectors
20. Children
21. Henri Matisse
22. Cartoons
23. Wolf Kahn
24. Rocks
25. Jimmy Wright
26. Artist's Models
27. Wood
28. Trees
29. Blue
    
30. Sculpture
31. Love
32. Black
33. Pigment
34. God
35. Unity
36. Courage
37. Emotion
38. Mass
39. Mary Cassatt
40. Andrew Wyeth
41. Gesture
42. Books
43. Contradiction
44. Museum Collections
45. Weight
46. Patronage
47. Illumination
48. Rosalba Carriera
49. Florence in 1504
50. Flow
51. Instability
52. Countenance
53. The Agony and the Ecstasy
54. Balance
    
55. Bob Dylan
56. Lines
    
57. Creativity
58. Plastic Space
59. Analogies
    
60. Pollock (Movie)
61. Gray
    
62. Artist's Traits
63. Sketch Books
64. Abstraction
65. Realism
66. Helen Frankenthaler
67. Art History
68. America
69. Intuition
70. The Golden Rectangle
71. Pablo Picasso
72. New York in 1950
73. Master Copies
74. Art Stores
    
75. Edgar Degas
76. Exhibitions
77. Mark Rothko
    
78. Optimism
    
79. Rome in 1512
80. Dimension
    
81. Leonardo da Vinci
82. The Palette
83. Studio Easels
    
84. Paris in 1904
85. Taborets
    
86. Architecture
87. Caravaggio
    
88. The Twentieth Century
    
89. Scale
90. Openings
91. Vincent van Gogh
92. Artist's Blogs
93. Water
94. Clay
95. Cigar Boxes
    
96. Influences
    
97. Yellow
    
98. The Colorist Daily
    
99. Erasers
    
100. Vision

What are your 100 things?