Some eye candy by Wolf Kahn for these cold, dark winter days. I went to see an exhibition of some of his pastels and oil paintings at the Jerald Melberg Gallery in Charlotte last November. &…

24 Apr — 31 May 2014 at the Ameringer | McEnery | Yohe in New York, United States

My Elementary Art room online. Lesson plans, student projects, motivations, and photos of artworks.

In painting, whether oil, acrylic or pastel, the beauty of your edges are like the melody in the song. Often overlooked, it's truly the sweetness of the edge that can make us feel the beauty. Just look at Wolf Kahn's subtle edges in my last post. WK is the master. Examine the close-up of his pastel that I posted (above). Yum. The tools are the same no matter what the medium. Shifts in value, color, and temperature and use of thick and thin make it all happen. When you look at this pastel you see all the tools in action. The one hardest to see in a photo is the thick and thin pastel. Pastelists use of light layers and thick chunky pieces just like oil painters. I feel that paintings that use of the same amount of pastel (paint) lose that air of mystery, that look deeper feel. Advice- use your tools. :-)

One of my favorite contemporary painters is Wolf Kahn. Through his landscapes he walks, or I guess paints, the line between abstraction and representation. His color is a major inspiration to me.

I was at strand yesterday and found a gorgeous art book by Wolf Kahn. His painting style reminds me of Monet a lot, but his landscapes have more simpler beauty. His colors are so vibrant and beautiful, I'd love to live in the woods that he painted.

The earliest painting on view in Wolf Kahn: Six Decades is a large landscape-derived abstraction from 1960 titled “Into a Clearing.” It features a loose, pulsing welter of brushstrokes that coalesce into lush zones of breathing, blooming color.