Self Portrait with Stocking Cap

Self Portrait with Stocking Cap. 2014. 

10.5" x 6.25." 

Pastel & Graphite over a Giclée on Arches Paper. 

Casey Klahn.

Merry Christmas. 2014.

Beato Angelico, Madonna of Humility, (1425).

 173 x 72 cm

Tempera painting on wood and gold leaf application

National Museum of St. Matthew, Pisa

The Hundred

Pink Ladies. 2014.

@12" x 10"

Pastel & Charcoal

Casey Klahn

Here is the latest work in my quest to make 100 florals, all in different styles. So far, so good (mostly). The last 50 are the biggest challenge in trying to find different things to say.

Pastel Workshop. The Elements of Art Book.

Medium Blog: Pastel Workshop. See Differently. Understanding and Using The Elements of Art.

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

What? About the Windowsill.

Windowsill in Winter Light. 2014. 12.5" x 8.5" Pastel & Graphite. Casey Klahn.

Movement as an Idea

5 Green Roses. The Ark of Movement. 2014.

10.75" x 10.25"

Pastel, Oil & Graphite

Casey Klahn

Use of the word "ark" is on purpose.

Brown Sauce

"There must be no more pictures covered in brown sauce."

Edvard Munch.

A work of art must carry in itself its complete significance and impose it upon the beholder even before he can identify the subject-matter. Henri Matisse.



My technique is unreliable... Jim Morgan.



We have our arts so we won't die of truth. Friedrich Nietzsche.




I can explain the picture to you, and you will understand the explanation, but you will not understand the picture. Pablo Picasso.



Any fool can make something complicated. It takes a genius to make it simple. Woody Guthrie.




There is only one valuable thing in art: the thing you cannot explain. Georges Braque.


Genius is finding the invisible link between things. Vladimir Nabokov. 




Mere color, unspoiled by meaning, and unallied with definite form, can speak to the soul in a thousand different ways. Oscar Wilde.


Anyone who says you can't see a thought simply doesn't know art. Wynetka Ann Reynolds.




Whoever wishes to devote himself to painting should begin by cutting out his own tongue. Henri Matisse.



Without...love, there can no longer be any dependable criteria of observation and therefore no longer any art. Henri Matisse.



Artwork above:
Self-Portrait (in distress), 1919 / Edvard Munch.
Munch Museum, Oslo, Norway.
Oil on canvas, 151 x 130 cm

100 Anti-Florals / Daily

100 Anti-Florals / Daily. 

The Sun & the Moon in the Same Northern Orbit. 2014. 

13.3" x 9" 

Pastel, Oil, Charcoal & Graphite. 

Casey Klahn

Steal Like An Artist

The Back of a Figurine by Matisse. 2014. 

@10" x 8" 

Pastel & Charcoal

Casey Klahn

ART THEFT!

Photo by:

Olya Powzaniuk 

Happy Thanksgiving 2014

Floral in Space

The Ateneum. 2014. 

13.25" x 9.75" 

Pastel, Charcoal, Graphite & Oil. 

Casey Klahn

New Jersey Reverie

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Memories of my workshops in New Jersey / November, 2014.

Casey Klahn / Artist's Banners at Crow Creek Farm, Goshen, New Jersey. Studios of Stan Sperlak. Photo: Stan Sperlak.

Crow Creek Farm / Stan Sperlak

Casey Klahn / Demo at Crow Creek Farm. Photo: Stan Sperlak.

 Casey Klahn / Demo at Stan's Studio.

Casey Klahn / Demo at Christina Debarry's Studio, Florham Park, NJ.

rreds

Romancing Reds. 2014. 19" x 12.25." Pastel, Oil, Charcoal & Graphite. Casey Klahn.

Going Indoors

The Craftsman at a Hundred. 2014.

13" x 9.5"

Pastel

Casey Klahn

This'll Be Fun!

New York City.

I'll be in New York to see the Matisse Cut-Outs exhibit at the MoMA in a little over a week. I recently saw about 30 works by Henri Matisse in Russia. I'm still blogging about that trip, but the posts to date are here:

I Ascended Alone.

Vermillion Ideas.  

The Cut-Outs began at the Tate, in London. Here is the support for this super-exhibition:

Henri Matisse: The Cut-Outs at Tate Modern.

Blue Certainty.

Matisse: Video Support.

Please return here for my reports on this sure-to-be-incredible trip!

Giving Picasso His Due

Bouquet for the Dryad. 2014

11.5" x 7.25"

Pastel & Graphite

Casey Klahn

Passion

Yellow Passion. 2014. 15.5" x 11.5." Pastel & Graphite. Casey Klahn.

Spaces Vases

3 vases. 2014. 

13.25" x 7.25" 

Pastel

Casey Klahn

Anti-Florals

Nocturne with Reds & Blues. 2014.
13" x 10.25."
Pastel, Oil & Graphite.
Casey Klahn


Someone described these new still life paintings as "anti florals." I dig that.