Kim Casebeer Workshop

Historic bridge near Clements, KS

Trucks like these were easy to find.

The workshop was at the Flying W Ranch.  What wonderful accomodations.

It doesn't get much better than this.  There were horses everywhere!

Kim is giving a lecture on 'equipment for plein air'.  

Everywhere you looked there was a splendid area for painting.  The 'light' was wonderful in KS.

This is one of 3 buildings we stayed at.  The ranch is set up as a 'bed and breakfast'.  

These beautiful horses were across the road from the 'bunkhouse'.

Friday we began with painting skies.  In this photo Kim is demonstrating element #1.

The line up of art students on the road in front of the bunkhouse.  Day one the elements:  skies, trees, rocks and water.

Demo #2: trees.

Demo #3 was for painting (hard) rocks.

Another line up of art students!

Kim doing a rock and water demo.

Sat. we set out for the KS vista morning painting.  Kim reminded us of how sometimes overwhelming the KS landscape can be.  The early morning light was changing fast so she broke the demo in to 2 or 3 parts.  Facing the morning sun was a little tricky.  

This is a zoomed in photo of the area.

Elaine Lierly Jones was taking this class, but using her pastels.  Elaine has a wonderful pastel painting in the Symphony of the Flint Hills event that is coming up.  Her pastel work is amazing.  The set up for using pastels in plein air work appears to be a little tricky.  

Part 2 of the demo on vistas.

There were 2 Rocky Mountain horses that were in our area.  The owners were from Olathe and Versailles.  This happens to be my favorite breed of horse.  How lucky I was to get to photograph them for future reference paintings.

Sat. evening we ate at the Grand Central Hotel in Cottonwood Falls, KS.   

This is a view of the bunkhouse porch.    Not exactly 'roughing it'.  

Kim was directing a critique the final morning.