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 | Apr 18, 2014 | Biblical, Commissions, Drawing
I received a call, way back, to commission a painting based on “The Woman Caught in Adultery” – one of those stories that made Jesus famous. Mmm… I told him I was interested, but couldn’t take any money up front – I couldn’t say...
by Ken Mattson | Mar 6, 2013 | Drawing, Graphite, Invention, Sketchbooks
I’ll often spend weeks just drawing, developing ideas for paintings. I get to a place where I don’t want to stop – just skip the paint and draw forever! But the painting does begin. And then I follow the same path, now enveloped in color, one idea...
by Ken Mattson | Jul 31, 2012 | At Work, Drawing, Graphite, Invention
One drawing leads to another drawing… Which leads to the painting and the print,…inspiring more drawing!
by Ken Mattson | Apr 10, 2012 | Drawing, Poetry, Sketchbooks, Watercolor, Writing
I’ve got a vivid dream life. Now and then they make it into my sketchbooks.
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.
