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"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...

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

"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,...

Please join us for Ken's Holiday Show on Saturday, November 11th, at Cork Wine and Tapas at 90 Front St, New Bedford, MA! The show will be upstairs in the Tabor Room. Admission is FREE! Stick around after the art show for live music from Ken, 6-8:30 p.m.