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Behind the Brush: My Flower Paintings Collection

Behind the Brush: My Flower Paintings Collection

Flowers have been around for about 120 million years. They’ve had quite some time to evolve into what we see today. We have evolved in a world of flowers, so the enjoyment of their shapes, smells, and colors has been bred into us. Like most people, I have always been attracted by flowers. When I was very young, I saw Van Gogh’s paintings of irises, sunflowers, and cherry blossoms on a national tour of his work back in the early '60s. We went to the Cleveland Art Museum, and I was transfixed. Later, Monet’s water lilies stunned me. When I...

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Behind the Brush: Space Icon

Behind the Brush: Space Icon

I was in awe the first time I saw a Salvador Dali painting. I found all sorts of surreal art in books and went to see them in museums. I was struck by how many magazine advertisements, as well as TV ads, contained elements of surrealism. This school of art has played itself out, but it is still fun. When I first started painting, I thought that at some point, I would like to try my hand at a surreal painting. I thought it would be fun, and I was right.   I live in Greece for part of the year,...

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Behind the Brush: My Monochromatic Painting Collection

Behind the Brush: My Monochromatic Painting Collection

"I use Nature as a great teacher in how to paint light and shadow. Looking and seeing in the present can reveal amazing and rich experiences, which I hope to share with anyone looking at my painting."   When I first started painting, I saw a black-and-white photograph in a newspaper that intrigued me. It was of a man leaving a storefront with a heavy overcoat and fedora. I had been learning about underpainting, which is the paint you put on the canvas before the final paint. (For example, if I paint a field of green grass, I might paint...

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Holiday Art Show 2023

Holiday Art Show 2023

A curated collection of paintings shown at the 2023 Artist Ken Richards Holiday Art Show. Enjoy 12% off our 2023 Holiday Art Show Collection beginning December 13th! Shop the Collection

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About The Artist II

About The Artist II

"For me, music and art are like breathing. One is inhaling, and the other is exhaling. And so I need to do both in order to breathe."   Q: What Did You Discover First, Music Or Art? It depends because, as a kid, I always had crayons and stuff like that, but as something I would pursue, it was music. Music came first, but I was always into drawing and painting. In high school, I got a few gigs at coffee houses and had a really good friend who was like a big brother teaching me. We were a duo,...

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