by Ken Mattson | Apr 27, 2020 | Color, Current Events, Invention, Life, Politics, Printmaking, Woodcut
by Ken Mattson | Aug 13, 2015 | Invention, Learning, Life, Watercolor
by Ken Mattson | Sep 18, 2014 | At Work, Invention, Learning, Life, Oil Painting, Painting
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 | 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.
