The Colorist

Commitment My (Younger) Self and Friend Ryan in the Mountains With your focus placed on what to paint for your award winning show, it is no...

Blue & Gray River 10" x 14.5" Pastel Casey Klahn How to Paint for a First Place or a Best in Show. It occurred to me that you ...

You are owed an update of my studio activities. First, pour yourself a cup of coffee. The studio sits all a mess after my return...

Among artists there is much interest in how to set-up at art fairs. I offer this post that I originally published elsewhere, with updates....

I am pleased to announce that I was awarded a First Place in the Drawing category at the Sausalito Art Festival . It was a big surprise, a...

Sayalessandra covers Otis Redding Did you know that the dock of the bay that Otis Redding sat upon was in Sausalito, CA? And, coincidental...

Two Tyrants in a Motorcade Seventy Million - the high-end estimate of war dead resulting from WW II. Seventy percent - the proportion of Am...

CJK at Family Camp Photo Credit: Lorie Klahn Don't forget to dream big.

Simple preview of my art booth See a thin preview of my art for Sausalito at my blog, Pastel . Someone asked the other day about my current...

Blue & Gray River 10" x 14.5" Pastel Casey Klahn Imagine the river when the water element overwhelms the vegetation and the a...

Shady Trees 5" x 7" Pastel Casey Klahn This is an image from behind our house, looking toward the pet cemetery. Finished outside, ...

"What Did U Say?" The geek at the computer shop tells me that my operating system is corrupt. In the Old West, those would be fig...

Paul Cézanne (Son of the Artist), 1890 Pastel Paul Cézanne "Line and color are not distinct...when color is at its richest, form takes...

My Toshiba laptop is on life support. Being older than four years, the stalwart tool is losing data fast. As I never did proper ...

Prairie Bush 5.25" x 12.75" Pastel Casey Klahn Let's take a portage and see some overland scenery. We'll return to the ri...

River in Browns 7.5" x 16" Pastel and Charcoal Casey Klahn In the service of honesty, let's admit that the river isn't alw...

"Seek the strongest color effect possible...the content is of no importance," Henri Matisse. Reading Hilary Spurling's giant t...

Bright Red Tree 8" x 5" Pastel Casey Klahn Back to the upright format for a while. This one is the spin off of some trompe l'...

River Aine 3.6" x 8.25" Pastel Casey Klahn That ol' man river, he jus' keeps rollin' along. Let the Chairman of the B...

Allow me to introduce a new blogging artist and teacher: Stephen Bauman . If you share my love of Italy and of Classic Realism , you will s...