Carriera, Copley, Chardin, Oh My!

Young Lady of the Le Blond Family

13.4"  x 10.6"

Rosalba Carriera [Public domain], via Wikimedia Commons.

This looks good. For those interested in pastel's historical development.

Pastel Portraits: Images of 18th-Century Europe
May 17, 2011–August 14, 2011

Brightly hued, highly finished, and relatively large in scale, pastels in the 18th century were regarded as a type of painting and displayed like oils. The powdery, vibrant crayons are particularly suited to capturing the skin tones and evanescent expressions...

Head Games

Sketch, Head

Copied from a book

@ 9" x 7"

Charcoal and Chalk

Casey Klahn

This image was one of four 10-minute sketches of heads that I did the other evening to celebrate cleaning my studio. I was reading Drawing magazine, which is one of my guilty pleasures.  The idea here was the head as a cube in perspective.  I am also guilty of taking this from Ned Mueller, as I saw his great drawing in one of my coffee table art books.  Consequently, it will never be for sale.

Pastels, Yellow Ideas, The iPhone Camera, Six Unisons Only & PA Sketches.

New Colors - Hand Made Pastels

Canola Crop - Making Me Think of Yellows

Scenery On The Butte

Six Unisons Only - Well, Maybe I Added a Gray or Two

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Flowers On The Butte

Sketches

Just Thinking with a Charcoal and a Pastel in My Hand

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Study and color study thumbs

Washington State - The Place To Be

In the next few weeks, make sure to watch my sidebar, if you don't already subscribe to Astrid Volquardsen's and Loriann Signori's blogs. They have traveled from afar to enjoy the plein air painting in Washington, and will be taking Richard McKinley's workshop and posting wonderful new things.

Astrid Volquardsen

Loriann Signori

Intent - After Degas

Intent, After Degas
@ 7" x 5"
Charcoal & Pastel
Casey Klahn

Feather Rock

Feather Rock

@5" x 7"

Pastel

Casey Klahn

While you are waiting on me to write a couple of posts on my pastel palette, please enjoy this new artwork that is based on a plein air sketch.  


Upcoming posts:
How to build your palette tray yourself.
My secret palette.