Ken Marsden Art

Here is yet another winter scene.
Ken

Ken Marsden Art

I have had a propensity in the past to paint summer scenes during the winter and vice versa. This winter I seem inspired to paint the winter around me. Here is a new one.
Ken

Ken Marsden Art

In my last blog I mentioned my acceptance to exhibit at the Wisconsin Arts Board in Madison Wisconsin. I have since been notified that a number of my paintings have been posted to www.portalwisconsin.org. For a period you can see them under recent artists or by searching the site using my name.

Ken

Ken Marsden Art

I apologize for the gap in my Blog entries but here is an announcement: I have been notified by the Wisconsin Arts Board that I have been selected to exhibit utilizing 55 linear feet of wall space at their Madison building. The exhibit will not be until 2010 but I need every bit of that time to assemble a collection of my very best paintings.

As for the gap in blog entries, one of the main reasons has been computer difficulties which have taxed both brain and energy. A new motherboard installation seemed like the way to go but now I realize for the small difference in cost I should have gone to Wal Mart and purchased a new computer. Fortunately all digital images survived. Now that the Christmas and New Years holidays are past I can get back to some serious (well not too serious) painting and I hope you will come to this site frequently as I promise to do better - a New Years Resolution? I will try!

Ken

Ken Marsden Art

Northcountry Hollyhock
I once watched an oil painting demo on TV in which we were told that if we were going to paint a rose to paint the most beautiful rose that ever could be. This Hollyhock certainly wasn't the most beautiful ever but, after being eaten by a deer in my backyard and struggling to come back, I thought it had lot's of character that deserved to be painted.
Ken

Ken Marsden Art

This "Aunt Emma" wasn't really my Aunt Emma, but I did have several Aunt Emmas. There were so many Emmas in my relations that the family referred to them as "Fred's Emma or Charlie's Emma or Art's Emma, etc. I did this one for display purposes to encourage commissions for ancestoral portraits. Portrait anyone?

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Ken Marsden Art

One of many "Hard Life" paintings I've done of a dairy farm near where I live in northern Wisconsin. The first one I did won Honorable Mention at the Hardy Gallery Exhibit in Door County Wisconsin some years ago. There is an Artist Statement about "Hard Life" on my web site www.kenmarsden.com.