The Colorist

Abstract Reds Over Blues 20" x 12" Original Pastel Casey Klahn Private Collection This is a re-post of a favorite essay. ...

Jennifer Phillips - Daily Encounters With My Paint Brush Here is a post with little bits of new things that I encountered at the Bellevue Fa...

Announcing Pastel at PastelsBlog.Blogspot.com! Because my tags are top-weighted with the subject of the pastel medium, I felt the need to s...

Above Kimball Junction 8.25'" x 10" Pastel Sketch in Moleskine Book August 6th, 2007 Casey Klahn One can sketch with pas...

Artist's Tape, Moleskine and Pencil Sketch Box, Moleskine & Mouse A Moleskine owned by Pablo Picasso (1881-1973) ...

White Bunkhouse 8.75" x 9.5" Pastel Casey Klahn Many, if not most, of the colors in this pastel work are done with my home-made ...

Have some fun, and save money on expensive pastels, by making some of your own sticks. It's easier than one may have heard. Some of the...

Local Chums. And, more than that, the artists listed here are representing the passion, merit and quality of the pastel medium. Some also ...

The Bunkhouse 6.5" x 8" Original Pastel Casey Klahn $375 This is the first Colorist American Landscape I have done in some time. ...

Casey Klahn Competing priorities today. I need to post a "daily" painting (which I cunningly post only every 100 hours) over at m...

I will leave some one out, and for that I am sorry. I have already touched on some prominent pastelists whom I favor, such as Wolf Kahn, Dia...

Yellow Gesture 18" x 11" Original Pastel Casey Klahn CTA The gesture embodies the intuitive approach to art. Sure, color choice l...

Rosalba Carriera Self Portrait with The Artist's Sister, 1715 Image courtesy of the Metropolitan Museum Rosalba Carriera (1675 - 1...

Gestural Detail: Abstract Reds Over Blues Soft Pastel Casey Klahn Collection The Artist The work on my easel now, The Bunkhouse , is being d...

Gamblin PVA When I took Diane Townsend's workshop on abstract pastel work, she was "all about" PVA. I, for one, am happy tha...

Abstract Reds Over Blues 20" x 12" Original Pastel Casey Klahn CTA Under the tutelage of Diane Townsend I painted this abstract wo...

Mary Richmond asked me about fixative and brought up framing, and I provided my humble two cents in the comments here . I won't go any...

High Intensity Blue Tray, Various Brands of Pastels Playing catch-up today. I want to get a Colorist American Landscape back on the easel, ...

I don't want to overlook some of the other good pastel products that come out of France. Have a look at Pastels Girault , whose sole foc...

Detail Soft Pastel Casey Klahn Say what you will, the French have certainly cornered the art media market, big time. I cannot do without my...