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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...
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,...
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...
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
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,...