by Ken Mattson | Mar 7, 2020 | Black and White, Charcoal, Drawing, Learning, Life, Sketchbooks, Stories
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 | 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.