Daffs

Daffodils. 2025.

Pastel on Sanded Card. 13" x 9.6". Casey Klahn.

 

5 Minute Sketch

 Vine Charcoal & Pastel on Strathmore 500. Full Sheet. Casey Klahn.

Hairdo

Hairdo. 2025. Pastel on Ingres.

15.5" x 13.5". Casey Klahn.

 

Craftsman Vase

Craftsman Vase. 2025.

Pastel on Sanded Card. 15" x11".

Casey Klahn.

 

Romanian Cloth

Romanian Cloth & Dried Flowers. 2025. 

Pastel. 11.6" x 6.6". Casey Klahn.

Flower

 

Flower in Her Hair. 2025. Vine Charcoal & Pastel on Sanded Card. 12" x 6". Casey Klahn.

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North Wind Blizzard. Live Painting.

Studio Early Winter. 2022. Pastel. 14" x 8.6". Casey Klahn.

My little studio is anything but "all weather". It leaks air like a creaky baffle. But, the best direction for wind and snow to attack, from my point of view as a survivor, is from the north. 

This pastel was done by opening the door and huddling in the doorway, and watching the storm.

Driver Hat

 Maquette. Driver Hat. 2025.

Vine Charcoal, Black Pencil, Dry Ground & Pastel on Newsprint.

9" x 9".

Casey Klahn.

Stockings and Skirt

Dark Stockings and Skirt. Seated Pose. 2025.

Charcoal and Pastel on Sanded card. 15" x 11". Casey Klahn.

12 minute pose.

 

Modernist Pastel

 Sketching and Smoking. 2023. Pastel. 12.25" x 8.5". Casey Klahn. 10-20 minute pose on Zoom.

I'm re-visiting some images to draw. Sometimes a pastel will become a drawing, and vice versa. While re-drawing this "from life" pastel, I realized I overlooked how much I like this one. It has Modernist chops.

Seated Pose

 Seated in Underwear. 2025. Vine and Pencil Charcoal, Pastel on Ingres Paper. 10" x 8.5". Casey Klahn.

 

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.

 The Fauvist. 2014. 14.25" x 13.5." Pastel, Charcoal and Graphite. Casey Klahn.

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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.

 

Zoom Model from Rome

 

White Knee. 2025. Vine Charcoal, Dry Ground & Pastel on Ming Sanded Paper. 

13.75" x 10". Casey Klahn. @ 15-20 minute pose.

Robed Model Motif

Green Robe (Bat Tattoo). 2025. Vine Charcoal, Pencils & Pastel on Ingres Paper. 16" x 13". Casey Klahn.

Medal Awarded to Klahn

Davenport, WA artist Casey Klahn was awarded the Master's Circle status from the International Association of Pastel Societies, June 8th, 2019. The award is indicated for his achieving the IAPS master's status in 2017, when he secured a fifth point in the international association's system for recognizing artists achieving either awards or exhibition placement. 

Klahn is a past member of the Northwest Pastel Society, and a signature member of the Pastel Society of America. He is represented in the contemporary marketplace of various social media platforms, and teaches art workshops internationally. 

The award of Master's Circle is signified by a bronze medal coated in 18K gold, struck with a design of a rose rendered by IAPS founder and former president, Urania Christy Tarbet. On the back is engraved the awardee's name and date of the award. An artist may use the letters IAPS/MC to indicate his or her status, and in Klahn's signature the letters PSA are also used to note his status as a signature artist in the Pastel Society of America.

The pastel medium is among the oldest mediums used by artists. It is composed of pure pigment and the least amount of binder or body necessary to make a paste, which is then dried and forms a stick similar to a crayon. The difference being that a crayon is of gross materials, and the pastel of the finest. Pastel artworks are considered the most archival colors, even exceeding oil paint for lightfastness. Contemporary pastelists enjoy the availability of archival surfaces now, compared to the past when some paper substrates were of a fugitive nature. One of the formal qualities of pastel that Klahn enjoys is its ability to portray bright, pure color, which is a keynote of contemporary visual art.

Happy Easter - 2019

The Descent from the Cross c. 1435. Oil on oak panel, 220cm × 262 cm. Museo del Prado, Madrid.
Flemish artist Rogier van der Weyden.