November 14-16, 2014.
17 September, 2014
09 September, 2014
Oil Bar Chaos
The French Modernists. 2014. Pastel, Oil & Graphite. 11" x 9." Casey Klahn. Note: soft pastels, oil bar (which is oil paint - not oil pastel) and pencil, on archival rag paper. I think I put some gesso on there with my fingers, too.
02 September, 2014
29 August, 2014
Small Abstract
The Static Moment. 2014. 7" x 5." Pastel. Casey Klahn.
$100 / unframed. Postage @ $12 US / more for foreign post.
27 August, 2014
25 August, 2014
18 August, 2014
From Finland
The Lake. Arrangement in Blue. 2014.
8.25" x 11.3"
Pastel
Casey Klahn
Feast
Special hour in Kemijarvi. Following a brilliant dinner we enjoyed the Finnish sauna.
Finland was a fabulous time. I taught 10 artists in a 5 day workshop. After this, I traveled to Saint Petersburg, Russia to visit Matisse. More on that later.
15 August, 2014
With Love
I'll write more about my Finland and Russia trip as soon as I get my land legs back. For now some rest, but always sweet memories of Lapland, Helsinki, The Baltic Sea and Matisse.
29 July, 2014
Getting on the Airplane
Please allow me these moments of glee as I get ready to board the plane for Europe. The brief is that I will be teaching a workshop above the Arctic Circle, in Lapland. I'm afraid I couldn't find any hip Beatles songs about that experience, but since I will be adding a side trip to Russia, Back will do just fine.
Stay tuned here for photos and updates about the workshop in Kemijärvi , Finland, and I'll be creating and posting some pastels as well. I have an affinity for places in the north, and am really looking forward to seeing this delightful and remote corner of Europe.
Back in the, er.., Russia, I just clued-in that St. Petersburg is known as the Venice of the North. I want to see the big Matisse paintings held there, and maybe I'll get to play Sargent as best I'm able, and paint some canal scenes, too.
For the more playful, here is the Beatles illustrated trip to Russia. Couldn't help myself.
25 July, 2014
Softly The Morning
Morning Forest. Pinks. 2014.
@8" x 12"
Pastels on St Armand Old Masters Drawing Paper.
Casey Klahn
16 July, 2014
Coffee Culture Canada
The Skinny Barista. 2014.
12" x 11.5'
Pastel & Charcoal
Casey Klahn
Galt is an urban hamlet in Ontario where I spent last week teaching and enjoying the culture. It was a fine time, and I want to thank Edward Hanson at Pastel Studio Canada, and Pastel Artists Canada, for having me.
12 July, 2014
American Falls
American Falls. 2014.
Vine Charcoal and White Compressed Charcoal.
@8" x 10."
Casey Klahn
Intervening Space. American Falls. 2014.
Vine Charcoal and White Compressed Charcoal.
@8" x 10."
Casey Klahn
Casey Klahn painting at Niagara Falls.
26 June, 2014
Big Work on the Easel
Full sheet of La Carte pastel card on the easel. Can I have a cookie now?
Click on the image to see it in full crop.
24 June, 2014
23 June, 2014
15 June, 2014
eBay Listed - Larger Works
Edges Field. 2014.
11-3/8ths" x 15.25."
Pastel
Casey Klahn
Since the demand for larger works is also present, I am offering a few this month on eBay. All recent works - 2014.
13 June, 2014
10 June, 2014
Granite River
Climber's River, 2014
9" x 12"
Pastel
Casey Klahn
This is the formal pic of this original pastel.
09 June, 2014
08 June, 2014
This Russian Olive Tree Has Seen Better Days
Remnant Resurrection. 2012-14.
7" x 9.75"
Pastel
Casey Klahn
07 June, 2014
Rock Garden
The Greater and Lesser Rocks. 2014.
4" x 11 - 5/16ths"
Pastel and Charcoal
Casey Klahn
eBay Listing.
06 June, 2014
05 June, 2014
One Day Only Auction
Valley Dusk
6" x 5.25"
Pastel
Casey Klahn
I will be painting daily through the month of June, and listing mostly small works in the auction format on eBay. Just follow the link below, and I will be posting the works here each day.
This unframed pastel is offered 1 day only.
eBay store.
03 June, 2014
eBay!
First Warm Day. 2014.
5.5" x 6.25"
Pastel
Casey Klahn
I will be painting daily through the month of June, and listing mostly small works in the auction format on eBay. Just follow the link below, and I will be posting the works here each day.
eBay store.
21 May, 2014
20 May, 2014
Was? Where? What? Is?
Was This Where? 2014
13.75" x 11"
Pastel
Casey Klahn
I am asking questions visually. Was this where you were? Is it new? Is the scenery changing?
Here is Bob Dylan, asking questions musically:
18 May, 2014
Wolf Kahn Obligations
Bravo, Mr. Kahn. I couldn't agree with you more about having a sense of obligation to our culture. Our better angels thank you.
17 May, 2014
Rocks and Rivers
Climber's River, 2014
9" x 12"
Pastel
Casey Klahn
It's fun to render rocks. This boulders and river scene is reminiscent of my rock climbing days and visits to Icicle Creek, in Washington. Maybe I'll get there this summer and do some more scenes.
10 May, 2014
09 May, 2014
Florence with Vianna Szabo
Vianna Szabo
Is Italy in your very near future? I want to bring Vianna's incredible workshop to your attention. It is at the end of May and is your opportunity to paint the figure in Florence. The hosts are native to the Florence region, and plan exciting art events to coincide with this 9-day figure/portrait workshop.
When you get back, tell me how everything goes. I plan to teach in the same venue in the next year or two!
08 May, 2014
IAPS TWENTY-FOURTH JURIED EXHIBITION in Boston
Shades Grand River, Canada
14.5" x 18.5."
Pastel
Casey Klahn
Thanks to Liz Haywood-Sullivan and the IAPS organization for exhibiting this pastel in Boston, May 10-June 21, 2014. Liz writes the following:
"Please Come to Boston in the Springtime" - Dave Loggins.
If you do be sure to see the 24th IAPS Juried Exhibition at Vose Galleries. The exhibition runs from May 10 through June 21. Vose Galleries has devoted all 5 floors to pastel! The two lower floors display over 30 antique pastels in a show called "Crystals of Pigment: the Power of Pastel, and the top three floors exhibit the 76 paintings from around the world that make up the IAPS exhibition. This is a must see show!
29 April, 2014
26 April, 2014
Blue Era
A Blue Room in the Forest. 2014.
@ 10" x 13"
Pastel
Casey Klahn
I love seeing young musicians doing well and being hip. Enjoy this live ensemble performing Erik Satie's Gn no.1.
Erik Satie - Gnossienne No.1 - Seth Ford-Young
25 April, 2014
24 April, 2014
Blue Certainty
"A certain blue enters your soul...a new era is coming. " Henri Matisse. 1952.
From the Tate:
A giant of modern art, this landmark show explores the final chapter in Matisse’s career as he began ‘carving into colour’ and his series of spectacular cut-outs was born.
Cinema event in the UK.
23 April, 2014
Matisse - Video Support
Henri Matisse's groundbreaking cut-outs were rendered in the last decade of his life, from about 1943 in Nazi-occupied France, till about 1953, when Snail was completed, and are in London now and will be in New York in October. My post from yesterday regarding the exhibit.
One of the enjoyable aspects of this exhibit is the film support that illuminates the story of Matisse's process in making these great collages. Posted today: Alastair Sooke and A Cut Above the Rest.
One of the enjoyable aspects of this exhibit is the film support that illuminates the story of Matisse's process in making these great collages. Posted today: Alastair Sooke and A Cut Above the Rest.
Study notes for Henri Matisse.
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22 April, 2014
Henri Matisse: The Cut-Outs at Tate Modern
Henri Matisse: The Cut-Outs.
Current Exhibition at the Tate Modern, London, and in October at the MoMA in NYC.
Dates:
21 April, 2014
19 April, 2014
18 April, 2014
13 April, 2014
Nobody Was Harmed In The Making Of This Artwork
Hanging Tree in Color
@7" x 15"
Pastel
Casey Klahn
How many people consider nostalgia to be the pinnacle of art? An astounding number in your circle, no doubt, see the number one function of paintings and drawings to be taking them back to a bygone era. The Victorian era, perhaps. Roaring Twenties, anyone?
Once upon a time, I showed a drawing of a tree that I had just rendered to this man I barely knew. He thought to compliment me by suggesting that there, on the branch, I ought to place a man hanging. That would amp the emotional appeal, I suppose.
That is precisely what practitioners of fine art are supposed to avoid: the appeal to sympathy or nostalgia. The reason is that it is an attempt to recruit the viewer based on an appeal to his feelings about something. How in Bloody Sunday am I supposed to guess people's feelings? Is it wisest for the artist to take a pole of the relatively specific feelings of the greatest majority of rubes who might wander past his artwork as it hangs, in perpetuity, seeking those whom it will conquer?
It's a rather progressive approach to marketing art, and altogether wrongheaded for lots of reasons. The most important reason it is wrong is that contemporary art should be my soapbox - my ideas. Not Aunt Sweeney's, and not Joe Q. Public's sympathies. My ideas are universal enough to appeal and conquer plenty fine, thank you.
No criminal needs to hang in a tree for the advancement of my art today. Live and let live, I say.
01 April, 2014
Italy!
Riva Sole Reviso
8" x 9.75"
Pastel
Casey Klahn
Here is a blurb from their website:
La Romita School of Art first opened in 1966, under the guidance of Enza Quargnali, as the summer art program of Rockford College in Illinois. For over 50 years people have stayed at La Romita, painting the landscape, people, and towns in the beautiful Umbrian hill country, whose radiant golden light has charmed artists since the days of Perugino and his famous pupil, Rafael.
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