Taking the Long View

Long View of the Prairie. 2014.

4.75" x 10.5"

Pastel

Casey Klahn

Unframed/archival On eBay.

Field Reflections

Field Reflections

4" x 6"

Pastel

Casey Klahn

Unframed: $100

plus tax.

Yesterday was our birthday at The Colorist!  I wrote you readers a letter.

Here is another unframed work that is available:  Remnant Snow.  For all inquiries, write me an e-mail with the subject line Purchase.  Thank you.

The Prairie in High Country

High Country Prairie

6" x 19.5"

Pastel

Casey Klahn

This is the companion to yesterday's picture.

High Prairie

High Country

6" x 19.5"

Pastel

Casey Klahn

This image was originally published in May.

More of the Subject: The Corner of the Field

Gifted Light Field

14.25" x 18.25"

Pastel

Casey Klahn

I think that a yellow phase is in the works.  

Back In The Draw

In The Draw With Vermilion

6.5" x 6.5"

Pastel

Casey Klahn

Buttes Are My Next Subject

Up Country Pines

11" x 17.9"

Pastel

Casey Klahn

Butte

Smaller than a mesa and bigger than a berm.

New Work - Pastel Field

Pastel Field

11.25" x 16"

Pastel & Charcoal

Casey Klahn

This is a piece done over the top of a discarded work.  

High Country Landscapes

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High Country Prairie

6" x 19.5"

Pastel

Casey Klahn

High Country

6" x 19.5"

Pastel

Casey Klahn

This past month of daily posting has been fun and rewarding. Thanks to everyone who has read faithfully. I'm not done, yet, but at the end of the week I'll be exhibiting at the Spokane ArtFest and the posts will be less than daily. I will give you my report, though, and stay with me for the next few days, please.  I will be posting more fresh works, which will all be exhibited in Spokane June 3-5, 2011.

Color Understory

Tangled Color

7.4" x 12"

Pastel & Charcoal

Casey Klahn

I found this image in my files, which has not been posted in this format before.  This painting hangs next to my desk in the house.


Next time:  More Matisse at the SFMOMA.  Previous posts on SFMOMA here, here and here.

Dusk With Orange

Dusk With Orange

@ 5" x 7"

Pastel

Casey Klahn

In Review - Art From 2010

Waterhole 1

@6" x 8"

Pastel

Casey Klahn

An item of interest: this one is on Townsend paper, which has a hand-applied sanded surface on Rives BFK. I didn't want to travel far from my prairie theme, but did try different surfaces this season.

I am continuing my review of some of this year's artworks.

Make sure to visit Making a Mark, which I'm sure most of you do regularly.  Katherine Tyrrell has reached her 5th year blogiversary!  She shares 12 secrets to blog longevity, and it is worth your read.

Gorge Shadows

Gorge Shadows

Pastel
Small
Casey Klahn

Why Ask Questions?

Aperture Bright
@11" x 14"
Charcoal & Pastel
Casey Klahn

When will the wheat be ready for harvest? Which path should I walk? What will today bring?

Subdued Light

Washed Light
5.6" x 12.75"
Pastel
Casey Klahn

Eastern Washington has tremendous beauty. Much of it is on the grand scale typical of the American west. Here is where immense dry coulees (cliff-rich basalt formations that bookmark dry valleys), deserts, the irrigated Columbia Basin, the Columbia River Gorge, vast orchards, and some of the richest wheat lands anywhere, all take your breath away.

This image isn't of the grand scale, or the Hudson River School genre, as Deborah Paris likes to say. But it hints of that. What peeks through those trees? What will I find in the next field over? What events await tomorrow? These are some questions I think of when I look at this painting.

Red Sub-Text

Sub Text Red

6.25" x 8.25"

Pastel

Casey Klahn

This image has been updated, which means that it is the formal, high quality photo of this original pastel. I go into this detail, because there are, believe it or not, people who don't discriminate between photos and paintings. Example: the lady who walked into my art fair booth this summer and declared, "you've been hitting the Photoshop pretty hard on these!"

No, steam did not come from my ears, but I did laugh to myself. As long as we persevere with painting, we will have to continue educating the public on what we are doing.

In The Draw

In The Draw, Green
9.75" x 9.75"
Pastel
Casey Klahn

We just returned from a weekend at the lake cabin, and I actually got a chance to relax. That was much needed after an art fair the previous week. Now, I have the follow-ups from the fair to attend to, which includes a post for my readers here at The Colorist. Tomorrow, I hope to get to that for you.

You may have noticed that I have been sneaking in videos on art subjects in the right hand column. Lectures, usually. I like this tool because I can manage it, and it keeps the footprint there fairly small. Also, it doesn't have the big you tube design around the player. Anyway - they are somewhat neat. In the future I will post others that I like; maybe Kassan drawing, or Pollock painting. These lectures are often very long, so make some popcorn and save up your internet kibbles.

Green, Gre-en, Green.

Green Grass Landscape

7.6" x 9.5"

Pastel

Casey Klahn

Scary green. Green in your eye. Green in between. That much Green.

Mr. Green Jeans.

The Green Hornet.

The Red Green Show.

Green Acres.







Kirkland Uncorked this weekend.

Waterhole Number One

Waterhole 1

@6" x 8"

Pastel

Casey Klahn

An item of interest: this one is on Townsend paper, which has a hand-applied sanded surface on Rives BFK. I didn't want to travel far from my prairie theme, but did try different surfaces this season.

See it at Kirkland Uncorked this weekend.

The Evening Light (Bald Ridge)

The Evening Light  (Bald Ridge)

7.2" x 11.2"

Pastel & Charcoal

Casey Klahn

pas camera

This image is from a view that I see out of the north window of my studio, quite a ways in the distance and to the side.  It is a butte that is 3 or 4 miles away.  I have done it, re-done it and done it again.  Perhaps I have it, now.

There is some trouble with my new blog project, but my enthusiasm is growing even with these speed bumps.  I can't wait to reveal it to you.