My 2013 Year In Review

Self Portrait with Broken Glasses

@12" x 9"

Charcoal & Pastel on Prepared Paper

Casey Klahn

No year where your art improved even a little bit can be called a bad year.  I add to that my exhibits, workshops, travels, and outdoor painting trips, and I realize that this was a very busy and happy year for me.

Seven years of blogging at The Colorist has been a fabulous experience, and I hope for at least 7 more and I hope you'll stick around, too!  I wrote about this year's events and experiences in my annual blog birthday letter, posted here.  It does the job of bringing the past year into focus, and what remains for me now is to dream about 2014.  

What should I do with the new year?  Start a studio remodel?  Continue to advance into new subjects, such as the figure, and Yellowstone National Park?  Teach across the US, especially in the South and in the East?  How about Europe and Canada for new workshops?  Too much to ponder in one sitting.

Thanks for reading here this past year, friends.  May God bless you, your loved ones, and also your studio life in the coming year.



7 Year Letter and Year in Review.
My Top 13 Artworks of 2013.
13 Plus Small Works from 2013.

Washed Light - Year In Review

First published in August, 2010.

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 in the world, 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.

Met on the HRS.

Gruh-heeen-uh!

Green Grass Landscape

7.6" x 9.5"

Pastel

Casey Klahn

Here at The Colorist, I have been posting some of my paintings from the past year. Kind of a year-in-review.

Upcoming: a blog birthday, more of The Artist's Ideas, and the ever-popular Ten Best Artist's Blog Posts of 2010.