The Art Noodge - Frosty Felicitations

Frost Ribbons, photo by Lorie Klahn (c)

Frosted Pine Needles, photo by Lorie Klahn (c)

 By the breath of God ice is given...

Job 37:10.

You already know there are a number of blogs that emanate from this house.  Now, new blogs are going from here into the ethernet, but not written by me!  Introducing:

The Art Noodge, by Lorie Klahn. A blog where international relief and development ministries are supported.  Buy Art!  Help People!

My wife Lorie enjoys photography and manipulating photos with various software such as Photoshop and all manner of Apps.  She is a talented photographer, and over the years her work has appeared on The Colorist.  Do visit her new blog, and please follow as she posts fine art photography, fun crafts and activities.

The Art Noodge.

The Infant

The Symbolist. Infant. 

11" x 15"

Pastel 

Casey Klahn

AKA The Elbow

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Les Nabis
@14" x 9"
Pastel & Charcoal
Casey Klahn

Did I Mention It's Windy Here?

Windswept Height

5.25" x 9"

Pastel

Casey Klahn

Provincial Panorama

Home Province

8.5" x 10.1"

Pastel

Casey Klahn

2014 Inspiration For You Plus Some Art

You may now purchase a calendar of my art.  The blurb is below.

A 15-month Calendar Book, with calendar pages from January 2014 through March 2015. The book features 27 paintings by artist Casey Klahn, who is a prolific Blogger at thecolorist.blogspot.com, and an international workshop teacher. Published as a paperback book, this calendar can serve as a wall calendar, a carry-along calendar, or a coffee table book. Many of the paintings are paired with a sampling of Casey's favorite personal and collected musings on art and color, bringing beautiful images and thought-provoking words together for an inspiring and illuminating presentation.

$15.00

CreateSpace Link.

Painting the Barn in Winter

This image is sized for an iMac.
Front Barn
7.5" x 12.75"
Pastel
Casey Klahn

Seasonal Ambiguity

Magenta Columns

4" x 6"

Pastel

Casey Klahn

Frosty Fence

Photo: Casey Klahn

I post the artwork, seen at the top, because I just got the formal photo taken.  For those of you who are bothered by seasonal confusion, I add this snow photo to provide balance.  You're welcome.

2014!

Matisse' Birthday

Henri Matisse

This quote is from the essay, The Role and Modalities of Color, 1945.

Born December 31st., 1869.

Abstracted Reality

Skyward

11" x 15"

Pastel & Charcoal

Casey Klahn

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.

Christmas Nativity

The Adoration of the Kings, 1564

43.7" x 32.68"

Oil on Board

Pieter Bruegel the Elder

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Children's Games

Children's Games, 1560

46.5" × 63.4"

Oil on Panel

Pieter Bruegel the Elder

Boy Drummer

OOO

White Christmas!

I get nostalgic, here.  It's snowing today.

We love Christmas movies at my house, and the wartime and post war movie White Christmas is no exception.  As a matter of fact, it's one of my favorites.  Those who know me best, know I have a soft spot in my heart for WW II G.I.s and everyone from that generation.  My father's army division, the TenthMountain Division, returned home and founded the American ski industry almost from scratch.  Rope tow and T-Bar hills became ski lift-served resorts.  Those were the salad days for the ski industry, but it came on the heels of K ration days at the battlefront.

You see the parallel to my father's experiences in the movie White Christmas.  It is a vehicle, really, for Bing Crosby's wartime hit song by the same name.  I read this year about how Bing was visiting a UK airbase during the war, but was too emotional to go on stage after witnessing the bombing deaths of children.  You think he was an elite Hollywood star, but he saw some things.  The movie is sappy to some, but there was a reason for spreading some peace and harmony for my parent's cohort.  

Plus, my dad was overseas at Christmas in 1944.  Reason enough to remember the season and to cherish the good times we live in now.  If you dig the Olive Drab version, like me, these first 2 short videos have that.  I added the glorious version from the end of the movie, because that's the way the old timers wanted to experience it.  The clip dialogue is dubbed auf Deutsch, and the song remains as recorded - it is wonderful to watch at high resolution.

O Holy Night

Boston MFA
THE LOFT SESSIONS

Frost

By Lorie Klahn.

Little Town

The Census at Bethlehem, 1566

Peter Bruegel The Elder, 152?-1569

Color on Panel

Link

This post was first published in 2011.

Seven Years at The Colorist!