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 | Aug 13, 2015 | Invention, Learning, Life, Watercolor
by Ken Mattson | Aug 9, 2015 | Invention, Life
by Ken Mattson | Dec 9, 2014 | At Work, Printmaking, Woodcut
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by Ken Mattson | Dec 8, 2014 | At Work, Collaboration, Greek Myths
by Ken Mattson | Sep 18, 2014 | At Work, Invention, Learning, Life, Oil Painting, Painting
by Ken Mattson | Aug 21, 2014 | Commissions, Glass, Poetry, Stained Glass
by Ken Mattson | Aug 3, 2014 | Learning, Life
by Ken Mattson | Jul 12, 2014 | Glass, Learning, Life, Stained Glass
by Ken Mattson | Apr 30, 2014 | At Work, Invention, Learning
It’s so natural and freeing to wildly express. . Watch children at play – (humans have an added gift) – we’re creators, we love to invent – it’s our glory! But as they say: “with every gift comes a curse”. And as an...
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 | 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 | Feb 23, 2014 | Invention, Oil Painting, Painting
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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 | Aug 27, 2012 | Current Events, Invention, Oil Painting, Painting
Two of my sons are fighting huge forest fires all Summer. It’s bound to leak into the art.
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 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.
