Diversions

Apple on a Violet Book
4" x 2.75"
Pastel
Casey Klahn

Still Life is a diversion for me. It can be good practice in modeling form, but I always get caught up in the color play.

Booth Mock Up

Here are some booth mock-ups for the upcoming Sausalito Art Festival. The actual booth will be flush with art, instead of thin as shown here, but this is a good preview of how my art is framed and how it will be hung. C U There!

The Lighthouse Keeper

The Lighthouse Keeper
5" x 7"
Pastel
Casey Klahn

This was posted previously, but only as a scan. It is a studio finish from a plein air painting made on the Oregon coast.

Did you know that lighthouses, back in the day, would burn whale oil or kerosene? And, what's more, they were as popular for tourists in the nineteenth century as they are now. Except, of course, the travel there was harder.

The gift store by this lighthouse had paper models of the lighthouses. I imagined using these, well lit, as studies for more paintings. Some day you'll see those here.

Yaquina Head Lighthouse.