Ken Marsden Art

I will soon get some of my new paintings on this blog but I just had to put this up. It is from a painting for a little booklet I self published about Galena, Illinois. I wont repeat all of the story here but it was painted from a real Hollyhock that survived deer and storms in our backyard. I once watched a fine lady painter on TV paint a rose as a demonstration. She made the point that one didn't have to paint a flower exactly as it was but rather one should paint the most beautiful flower, in her case rose, that ever existed. That may be but I thought this poor fellow deserved to be painted.