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2014-2015 WORKSHOPS

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Some of these workshops are already full, or are reserved.  When you contact me, I will usually refer you to the hosts of the venue.  If it is a proposed workshop, meaning I haven't got a date or a venue yet, then when you contact me I will put your name in a file and get back to you when the event gets firmed up.

Fire Dreams / Turkey In The Straw

In the name of the iron-jawed men I will stand up and say yes till the finish is come and gone. God of all broken hearts, empty hands, sleeping soldiers, God of all star-flung beaches of night sky, I and my love-child stand up together to-day and sing: "Thanks, O God."

Fire Dreams, Carl Sandburg

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Northwest Pastel Society

Casey Klahn deliberates among the final eleven pastel paintings at Everett's Schack Art Center.

The annual Holiday Art Show for the Northwest Pastel Society is ongoing in Everett, WA, from November 21st through December 28th.  I judged the awards and conducted a demonstration of a large artwork, which featured the subject of my barn.  I may have more photos in the near future, so please return here for those.


Holiday Art Show.

Northwest Pastel Society.




Photo: Jude Galbraith.

High Draw

High Draw

5" x 7"

Pastel

Casey Klahn

Granite State Light

Granite State Light

5" x 7"

Pastel & Charcoal

Casey Klahn

Glare

Net House Glare
11" x 13"
Pastel
Casey Klahn

Remember 100 Things

This is a re-post from 2011.  I still love these 100 Things About Art.

River Land in Diffusion

7" x 5"

Pastel

Casey Klahn

Why a hundred things? Because it is an interesting exercise in editing.

These are not listed in any order.

1. Color
2. Graphite
3. Willlem de Kooning
4. Paper
5. Art Studios
6. Galleries
7. Pastel Sticks
8. Outdoor Art Fairs
9. Art Societies
10. Form
11. Charcoal
12. French Easels
13. The Colorist Blog
14. Italy
15. Open Air
16. The Figure
17. Landscapes
18. Proportion
19. Collectors
20. Children
21. Henri Matisse
22. Cartoons
23. Wolf Kahn
24. Rocks
25. Jimmy Wright
26. Artist's Models
27. Wood
28. Trees
29. Blue
30. Sculpture
31. Love
32. Black
33. Pigment
34. God
35. Unity
36. Courage
37. Emotion
38. Mass
39. Mary Cassatt
40. Andrew Wyeth
41. Gesture
42. Books
43. Contradiction
44. Museum Collections
45. Weight
46. Patronage
47. Illumination
48. Rosalba Carriera
49. Florence in 1504
50. Flow
51. Instability
52. Countenance
53. The Agony and the Ecstasy
54. Balance
55. Bob Dylan
56. Lines
57. Creativity
58. Plastic Space
59. Analogies
60. Pollock (Movie)
61. Gray
62. Artist's Traits
63. Sketch Books
64. Abstraction
65. Realism
66. Helen Frankenthaler
67. Art History
68. America
69. Intuition
70. The Golden Rectangle
71. Pablo Picasso
72. New York in 1950
73. Master Copies
74. Art Stores
75. Edgar Degas
76. Exhibitions
77. Mark Rothko
78. Optimism
79. Rome in 1512
80. Dimension
81. Leonardo da Vinci
82. The Palette
83. Studio Easels
84. Paris in 1904
85. Taborets
86. Architecture
87. Caravaggio
88. The Twentieth Century
89. Scale
90. Openings
91.  Vincent van Gogh
92.  Artist's Blogs
93.  Water
94.  Clay
95. Cigar Boxes
96. Influences
97. Yellow
98. The Colorist Daily
99. Erasers
100.  Vision

What are your 100 things?

Red On Red

Long Remembered New Vision

13" x 21"

Pastel

Casey Klahn

Available

Mad River

Madison River Bend

@9" x 20"

Pastel

Casey Klahn

Available

Madison River Turnout

@9" x 20"

Pastel

Casey Klahn

Private Collection

C'est la vie

Slope with Light Splash

@ 9" x 9"

Pastel & Charcoal

Casey Klahn

I spent the day cleaning my studio (if tape wads were quarters, this would've been a fine day). I look forward to photo sessions the next couple of nights, and you should see some new images posted here and Facebook. Might have to have an event.

Painting Outdoors

Janice Wall

Artist Janice Wall following her pastel muse in Gig Harbor, WA, October 28th., 2013.  This image needed to be posted now, because the frost is on the ground, and for many of us this last season of outdoor painting is in the memory books.

Typical for me, I just did a few plein air sessions.  I did paint a number of images out the window, though.  Does that count?

It's Now The Mash!

Critique Group

"Unpacking" the art created during our 3 day workshop in Gig Harbor, WA.

At the See Differently workshop in Washington last weekend, we mixed intuition and response with the formal elements of art.  Rules/Break Rules.  We discussed rule-breaking tactics at length.  I encouraged the artists to "jail break" their artwork, and I said I wanted "Grand Theft, Auto" from them. That is my way of describing how big an art crime I was looking for.

Photo: Denise Champion.

Brave

"If you're looking for something to be brave about, consider fine arts," Robert Frost. 

Photo: Raoul Dufy in his studio. 

Photo attribution lost.

Color Sense - Quotes

This was first posted in July, 2013.

These pages are jpegs, and may be copied and printed for your studio.  Assembled by Casey Klahn.

South West

Juniper Dance

@10 x 7

Pastel & Charcoal

Casey Klahn

Boston Area Workshop Report

Your Author

North River Arts Society

Marshfield Hills, MA

Friday night demo.  I met numerous blog readers and Facebook friends on this trip.

We worked hard to plumb our reasons for creating pictures - our Artist's Ideas.  These are your personal agenda, apparent in every artwork you make.  Here you see a rare moment of fun in an otherwise demanding workshop.  

New Vision

Long Remembered New Vision, Oct., 2013.

@12" x 22"/iPh record

Pastel on Claret Paper 

Casey Klahn

Covered It Before - Music is Art

This post was first published in December, 2012.  

Music is art.  This statement needs no explanation, except I came to it late in life!  Of course music is art, and those who teach and play instruments are my brothers and sisters.  I stumbled (or is it youtubed?) onto Nadia Boulanger and was taken instantly by her genius as an instructor and by her authority.  Anyone animated by art will learn from her.

Mademoiselle Boulanger quotes Paul Valéry:
 "The gods kindly offer us the first verse. What is difficult is to write the next ones, which will be worthy of their supernatural brother."


Although I am the world's worst music patron, I find Mlle. Boulanger's stature and teaching style to be a very cool drink of water. I am listening to the longer video posted below as I type this, and although I am also the dimmest bulb at French, I am learning. 

"It's always necessary to be yourself – that is a mark of genius in itself,"  Nadia Boulanger.

Nadia Boulanger

My friend at Art and Music, Katherine van Schoonhoven, well understands the bridge between these two arts. Another friend and blogger is Rosemarie Kowalski, who blogs at Peaceful Ones, and she also celebrates the connection between the two.

This longer video, in French with subtitles, I recommend to you.

Nadia Boulanger.