I posted a V-Note about Casey Klahn’s pastels a while ago, and received a letter of thanks from him. We chatted a bit and I asked him if he’d be willing to teach a workshop at our new school. He asked about the students and the space, and I described us as a puppy with big feet. He agreed to join us, and has already started promotions. I’m thrilled the League is hosting Casey Klahn for a workshop on Color, Unity & Form March 4/5 2017.
Casey Klahn
Casey Klahn is an American artist born in 1958 in Hoquiam, Washington, and now living in Davenport. He drew as a child, but only became a professional artist some 15 years ago. He is in the main self-taught, but did take the Norman Rockwell Famous Artist School Correspondence Course for Talented Young People (that is some handle!) when about 11 or 12 years old, which he still values highly. He has attended some workshops, and now teaches fine art workshops on his own New School Color, from Boston to Denver, Durango, Portland, Seattle, to Georgia.
Casey explains: “New School Color is my way of describing new expressions in colorism similar to Fauvism but exploring the new. Contemporary colors are more numerous than either the Fauvists or van Gogh had available. We are in a new era in that regard. I wish to explore what new things may be said with color.” Often surprising in the use of colors, his palette is up-to-the-minute. His visual ideas extend the explosion in art that began over a century ago with Modern painters such as Cezanne, van Gogh and Matisse. Currently not a physical construction of bricks and mortar or an organized school, the New School Color is more a conceptual entity, but who knows what the future may hold as Casey’s influence spreads, as he garners more students and followers.
Pastels
Pastels are the oldest colored medium, the purest form of pigment, and there are far more colors available today than at any other time in history. So what do you do with all that color? How do you infuse joyful expressionism, while maintaining unity and form? In this class, students will enjoy an in-depth exploration of the properties of color, and learn about Colorist and Tonalist art.
Casey’s workshop includes painting demonstrations, short visual lectures, easel and formal group critiques, and plenty of student painting time.
In South India, kolam is a daily ritual that beautifies home thresholds with its mathematically based designs. During festivals like Pongal – a harvest festival that marks the end of the traditional farming season and the beginning of the harvest – kolam becomes more complex and colorful. In this post I share suggestions about how …
Take a class with SAL – anywhere! ‘If something is boring after two minutes, try it for four. If still boring, then eight. Then sixteen. Then thirty-two. Eventually one discovers that it is not boring at all.’ – John Cage [image_with_animation image_url=”3394″ alignment=”” animation=”None John Milton Cage Jr. (September 5, 1912 – August 12, 1992) was …
[image_with_animation image_url=”11503″ alignment=”center” animation=”None” box_shadow=”none” max_width=”100%”] Many new artists feel they need an original idea for every artwork, but most experienced artists get a lot of creative mileage out of one idea (especially a simple idea), repeated in iterations. Here is a great example: Temple Dogs, a series of 8 by Ralph Kiggell. Each illustration is …
In these drawings Henry Moore describes the aged body. He made a series of drawings of his own hands when he was eighty-one and suffering from ill-health, and he did more of Dorothy Crowfoot Hodgkin’s gnarled joints. ‘Hands can convey so much’ he said, ‘they can beg or refuse, take or give, be open or clenched, show content …
Casey Klahn: Color, Unity, & Form
I posted a V-Note about Casey Klahn’s pastels a while ago, and received a letter of thanks from him. We chatted a bit and I asked him if he’d be willing to teach a workshop at our new school. He asked about the students and the space, and I described us as a puppy with big feet. He agreed to join us, and has already started promotions. I’m thrilled the League is hosting Casey Klahn for a workshop on Color, Unity & Form March 4/5 2017.
Casey Klahn
Casey Klahn is an American artist born in 1958 in Hoquiam, Washington, and now living in Davenport. He drew as a child, but only became a professional artist some 15 years ago. He is in the main self-taught, but did take the Norman Rockwell Famous Artist School Correspondence Course for Talented Young People (that is some handle!) when about 11 or 12 years old, which he still values highly. He has attended some workshops, and now teaches fine art workshops on his own New School Color, from Boston to Denver, Durango, Portland, Seattle, to Georgia.
Casey explains: “New School Color is my way of describing new expressions in colorism similar to Fauvism but exploring the new. Contemporary colors are more numerous than either the Fauvists or van Gogh had available. We are in a new era in that regard. I wish to explore what new things may be said with color.” Often surprising in the use of colors, his palette is up-to-the-minute. His visual ideas extend the explosion in art that began over a century ago with Modern painters such as Cezanne, van Gogh and Matisse. Currently not a physical construction of bricks and mortar or an organized school, the New School Color is more a conceptual entity, but who knows what the future may hold as Casey’s influence spreads, as he garners more students and followers.
Pastels are the oldest colored medium, the purest form of pigment, and there are far more colors available today than at any other time in history. So what do you do with all that color? How do you infuse joyful expressionism, while maintaining unity and form? In this class, students will enjoy an in-depth exploration of the properties of color, and learn about Colorist and Tonalist art.
Casey’s workshop includes painting demonstrations, short visual lectures, easel and formal group critiques, and plenty of student painting time.
Casey Klahn and Paul Cezanne
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