Italian Doorway

The Door on the Anvil. 2019. Pastel. 11" x 9". Casey Klahn.

Stroncone, Umbria. Italy.

Old Europe (The Black Wall)

Old Europe. 2016. Pastel. 15" x 10.75." Casey Klahn.

Back Door Italy

By the Back Wall, There is a Cellar Door. 2016. Pastel & Graphite. 16.5" x 10.25." Casey Klahn. Italy.

Announcing Dates for Italy 2016

Artensity Contact for this workshop.

To Italy!

Umbrian Woman. 2015. 
Pastel. 
9.75" x 7.5" 
Casey Klahn



Beneath Riva Ridge. 
Small, Graphite.
Casey Klahn


I promise to post some images from Italy soon. I'm gone to Umbria for most of October.

come un affresco

Umbrian Woman. 2015. 

Pastel. 

9.75" x 7.5" 

Casey Klahn.

When a portrait adopts the manners of a fresco (plaster painting) it is reminiscent of Roman and Classic era art. I enjoy looking to the past.

This portrait is from the imagination.

Crown of Thorns

Christ with Crown of Thorns (1450~)
55×39 cm / Tempera on Wood.
Fra Angelico (@1395-1455)
Location: the dome in Leghorn, It.

Florence with Vianna Szabo

Vianna Szabo

Is Italy in your very near future? I want to bring Vianna's incredible workshop to your attention. It is at the end of May and is your opportunity to paint the figure in Florence. The hosts are native to the Florence region, and plan exciting art events to coincide with this 9-day figure/portrait workshop. 

When you get back, tell me how everything goes. I plan to teach in the same venue in the next year or two!

Artensity.

Italy!

Riva Sole Reviso

8" x 9.75"

Pastel

Casey Klahn

In 2015 I will be going to Italy to teach a 14-day workshop at La Romita.  I first heard about this wonderful art workshop center from a local artist and friend. La Romita was established in 1548 as a monastery. Workshops are housed and catered on site, and logistics for painting forays are supported by the staff.

Here is a blurb from their website:

La Romita School of Art first opened in 1966, under the guidance of Enza Quargnali, as the summer art program of Rockford College in Illinois. For over 50 years people have stayed at La Romita, painting the landscape, people, and towns in the beautiful Umbrian hill country, whose radiant golden light has charmed artists since the days of Perugino and his famous pupil, Rafael.

La Romita.

I am gathering interest for October or July, 2015. Contact me.

Revisiting Italy One Picture At A Time

Riva Sole Reviso

8" x 9.75"

Pastel

Casey Klahn

Dilly-Daly, Daily-Daly

Upper Church

4" x 6"

Pastel & Conte Pencil

Casey Klahn

For the month of February, I will be posting daily artwork at Pastel Workshop and Daily Paintworks.

Webcam View

Italy - Evening Light

Small

Pastel

Casey Klahn

Eight Italian Buildings

Available

Villa Through the Trees

8.8" x 7.2," Pastel, Casey Klahn

$325/unframed

Garda Heights

5" x 7," Pastel, Casey Klahn

$175/unframed

Belvedere Yellow

4.5" x 6.5," Pastel, Casey Klahn

$125/unframed

Hotel Sol, Italy

7.5" x 6.5," Pastel, Casey Klahn

$250/unframed

 Little House in La Ca

5.6" x 6.2," Pastel, Casey Klahn

$250/framed

Looking South in Riva

10.25" x 7.25," Pastel, Casey Klahn

$400/unframed

Italian Building Sketch

4" x 4.5," Pastel, Casey Klahn

$50/unframed

 White Facade, Sketch

8" x 5," Pastel, Casey Klahn

$225/unframed 

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Eight Italian Buildings - Flat File Sale

With the only exception being Little House in La Ca, these are all unframed works. 

How to purchase.

La Ca, framed in maple.

Riva del Garda: Car, Street Sign, Sunshine and People

Looking South in Riva

10.25" x 7.25"

Pastel

Casey Klahn

White Facade

White Facade, Sketch

@ 8" x 5"

Pastel

Casey Klahn

An Italian Villa

Villa Through the Trees

8.8" x 7.2"

Pastel

Casey Klahn

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.

Bellevue Demo Image

Hotel Sol, Italy

@7" x
Pastel
Casey Klahn

This is the painting I did for the demo last week in Bellevue at Daniel Smith.


There will be two workshops next week in Bellevue, on Wednesday and Thursday, October 19th and 20th.

Struggle

Studio and Struggle

My current studio work.  

I have been working diligently on the Hoquiam River series, because I want to have at least twenty paintings come the exhibit.  So far, so good.  Maybe there is a thread that unifies them.  They have been spread out over time, so I wonder.

It was time for a break, and so I tried to develop an image from Italy.  I was happy, but with reservations. That isn't too bad for a genre I don't specialize in.  

Riva Practice

Today, I had a short day in the studio, and had to call India for you-know-what.  The technician says my internet dish is old.  Good one.  Anyway, I got into doing some people on the street, in the Margaret Dyer style.  I want to explore those some more, as I am a huge fan of hers.  There is a thread of unity in her work and the work of Edgar Degas.

I liked the way Celeste Bergin mentioned at her blog that she does paintings for practice.  Then, she whips out a fantastic piece of a mother and child on the beach (see the link).  Hello.  Genius at work.

File this under miscellany.  I only found it the other day, and yet it is a series of posts done in the summer of 2009.  Sadie J. Valeri attended a residency involving the Hudson River Fellowship, and worked en Plein Air in upstate New York for a month.  I read the whole series with my mouth wide open.  That means I am in awe of the wonderful work done by Valeri, and I especially loved the use of graphite and chalk, and pen and ink washes.  Beautiful.

Cheers!  I'd better post this before my satellite dish falls over.

Stephen Bauman Blog

Allow me to introduce a new blogging artist and teacher: Stephen Bauman. If you share my love of Italy and of Classic Realism, you will see his new blog as a treasure trove.

Bauman found my post with cast drawings, and was kind enough to comment there. Compare this with these and you will be in for a treat.



Stephen Bauman. "I was raised in Miami, FL and now live and work in Florence Italy. I teach painting and drawing at the Florence Academy of Art, under the direction of Daniel Graves."