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Dakota Pastel Workshops/ Casey Klahn

Join me in Mt Vernon, WA. We'll sketch and paint from live models and focus on gesture and color. Beginner through advanced.

Snapshots from My October Workshops

Shown from the top are: New Mexico, Provincetown and Cape Cod, a sketch from Boston, and Freeport, Maine.

I'm always too busy teaching to stop and take a photo of the class. I rely on students sending their pics, so if you can, please send me some and I'll post them.

Dream Workshops!

I have to pinch myself at the prospects of the workshops that are coming up. Croatia! New Mexico! A demo at IAPS! Also, I am in the planning stages for Indiana, Los Angeles, Seattle and New York City. Planning is going out to 2018.

First, let's talk about the beautiful European gem, Croatia, on the Adriatic Sea. Instructors Ellen Eagle, Karen Margulis and others have reported wonderful experiences and I feel we're in for a treat when we go there in June, 2017. 

Croatia and its setting in Europe.

Porec and Villa Gloria, in Istria, are the popular travel spots where we will be for 10 days. Our host is Mario Vukelic, who publishes the blog, Pastel News.

Pastel Workshops in Istria. Aria Workshops.

Porec looks like maybe 40 plus miles from Venice, as the crow flies. Or the dolphin swims. Or - you get the idea.

Remember I mentioned that Georgian artist Karen Margulis just returned from Croatia? Here is her recent post reviewing her workshop and the trip. Warning! If you are on the fence about coming, this will seal your decision. It is a truly beautiful workshop locale, with great accommodations.

A Week in Croatia.

Mario Vukelic and Karen Margulis and her artists in Croatia. Can you say: "Wow?" 

Announcing Dates for Italy 2016

Artensity Contact for this workshop.

2015-2017 Workshops Update

This is my calendar of workshops scheduled to date. I also will add those planned but with roughed-in dates.

Sept. 12-13, 2015. DC Area / Gainesville. VA. Openings.
Oct. 7-21, 2015. Umbria, Italy.
Apr. 6-8, 2016. Albuquerque, NM.
Apr. 29-May 1, 2016. Norcross, GA (near Atlanta).
May 12-21, 2016 (proposed dates). Florence, Italy.
Mid Summer, 2016. Proposed Washington State. 3-5 days.
Mid Summer, 2016. Proposed Seattle. 5 days.
Sept., 2016 (proposed dates). Provence, France. 6 days.
Oct. @9-15., 2016. Portland, Maine.
2017. Proposed NYC at PSA. 3 days.
2017. Croatia.

More Workshop Photos - Washington State

Casey Klahn - lecture on the Artist's Ideas. I appreciated the attentive artists who were eager to learn.

Demonstration of landscape painting - Skagit Valley area, Washington State.

Floral demo.

Casey Klahn

La Conner, Washington area. 
Dakota Art Center Workshops.
Dakota Pastels.

All Photos: Evelyn Brody.

Workshop Washington State

Casey demonstrating landscape painting at the Dakota Workshop Center, Mt Vernon, WA.

Photo: Coizie Bettinger.

18 artists and I enjoyed painting with respect to one's individual voice and ideas in the historic La Conner, Washington area last week. I painted 4 demos and 1 or 2 resolutions of student works. The class was attentive and eager to learn, and I am grateful to Dakota for this first opportunity to teach at a national workshop center located right here in my home state.

My workshop schedule updates. I am dreaming of teaching in Provence, Germany and Italy in upcoming years, as well as NYC and many venues throughout the USA. Dates for those TBA.

Dakota Pastels / Workshop Center.

Timid Barn on the Slough Shore Road. 2015 9.5" x 16.75." Pastel and Oil. Casey Klahn.

Workshops Update

Casey Klahn. (Photo by Stan Sperlak)



Upcoming workshops:


2015

Rock Hill, SC    Mar 18-20 / Full. Wait list available.
Mt Vernon, WA / Dakota Pastels   Apr 16-18
New York City / with Ellen Eagle and Casey Klahn  TBA / June?
  
Marshfield Hills, MA   Aug 10-14
Gainesville, VA   Sep 12, 13
Umbria, Italy   Oct 7-21

2016

Florence, Italy
Portland, ME

Meet Me In New Jersey

November 14-16, 2014.

Getting on the Airplane

Please allow me these moments of glee as I get ready to board the plane for Europe. The brief is that I will be teaching a workshop above the Arctic Circle, in Lapland. I'm afraid I couldn't find any hip Beatles songs about that experience, but since I will be adding a side trip to Russia, Back will do just fine.

Stay tuned here for photos and updates about the workshop in Kemijärvi , Finland, and I'll be creating and posting some pastels as well. I have an affinity for places in the north, and am really looking forward to seeing this delightful and remote corner of Europe. 

Back in the, er.., Russia, I just clued-in that St. Petersburg is known as the Venice of the North. I want to see the big Matisse paintings held there, and maybe I'll get to play Sargent as best I'm able, and paint some canal scenes, too. 

For the more playful, here is the Beatles illustrated trip to Russia. Couldn't help myself.

Finland in August!

Information.

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.

Texas!

I just returned from teaching my See Differently workshop to an attentive and fun group in New Braunfels, Texas, which is between San Antonio and Austin.

Tall Tales Told To Texans

The second demo of three.

Report from this demo.

Casey Klahn

Big Bonus!

Musical accompaniment provided by Lyle Lovett,

That's Right, You're Not from Texas.

Austin is called a big music town, and I found out that is true. 

One of the artists at the workshop told me about this song.

August On The Arctic Circle

FINLAND! You Heard Me.

August 4-8, 2014.  See Differently and On Color!  Workshop.  Plus, plein air work.  
Rovaniemi, Fi.

Not affiliated with Hello Lapland!  Sounds like good people, though!

Art & Ideas

W O R K S H O P S

2014-2015 WORKSHOPS

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Some of these workshops are already full, or are reserved.  When you contact me, I will usually refer you to the hosts of the venue.  If it is a proposed workshop, meaning I haven't got a date or a venue yet, then when you contact me I will put your name in a file and get back to you when the event gets firmed up.

Boston Area Workshop Report

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North River Arts Society

Marshfield Hills, MA

Friday night demo.  I met numerous blog readers and Facebook friends on this trip.

We worked hard to plumb our reasons for creating pictures - our Artist's Ideas.  These are your personal agenda, apparent in every artwork you make.  Here you see a rare moment of fun in an otherwise demanding workshop.