by Ken Mattson | Apr 27, 2020 | Color, Current Events, Invention, Life, Politics, Printmaking, Woodcut
by Ken Mattson | Mar 17, 2020 | Drawing, Learning, Life, Stories
by Ken Mattson | Mar 7, 2020 | Black and White, Charcoal, Drawing, Learning, Life, Sketchbooks, Stories
by Ken Mattson | Nov 26, 2019 | Drawing, Life
When I first moved to the desert, two of my sons shared a 1972 travel trailer with me. In it we slept like sardines for 3 years, while building our home. One wall, next to the broken stove, was for “Post-It Note” drawings. With this one, I was thinking of...
by Ken Mattson | Aug 13, 2015 | Invention, Learning, Life, Watercolor
by Ken Mattson | Aug 9, 2015 | Invention, Life
by Ken Mattson | Sep 18, 2014 | At Work, Invention, Learning, Life, Oil Painting, Painting
by Ken Mattson | Aug 3, 2014 | Learning, Life
by Ken Mattson | Jul 12, 2014 | Glass, Learning, Life, Stained Glass
by Ken Mattson | Apr 7, 2014 | At Work, Etched glass, Glass, Life
That is, if you listen. At nineteen years old, my girlfriend was cheating on me. I chose not to believe the signs, but in my gut, things just didn’t add up. I was working in glass at the time, and ran across a photo of an aboriginal petroglyph. This drawing from...
by Ken Mattson | Jul 30, 2012 | Life
It’s extremely hot, extremely cold, and wildly windy.It’s also quiet – no one’s around, and spacious like the ocean.I LOVE the extremes. They keep me unsettled and awake.
by Ken Mattson | Apr 7, 2012 | Invention, Life, Oil Painting, Painting, Sketchbooks
Like writers and actors do, I take experiances from my own life and combine them with the stories of others so I can understand and speak for both.
by Ken Mattson | Apr 7, 2012 | Life, Oil Painting, Painting, Printmaking, Watercolor, Woodcut
Take every opportunity to define yourself. Two self-portraits: a recent woodcut, and 0ne from 1997 – “Myself As A Tea Pot” (I’ll explain that in another post).
by Ken Mattson | Jan 16, 2012 | Life, Woodcut
On New Year’s, we burn the Christmas tree – it takes less than a minute. Out with the old, in with the new!