Art – Ed’s Art Net 🌐

Earth and Ed

Billboard I like to imagine seeing this as a billboard along the interstates. ☺️ I also like to imagine a paradigm shift towards a united space conquering, inward and outward, love of God focused planet. 😎 I’d love to see evil defeated on earth… like it is in Heaven. 🥰 a site for more eyes Casting to the Web This… Continue reading Earth and Ed

The Net

The above colorful picture is a raster graphics image of my career final PCB design. It’s a pseudo partial “X-ray” rough representation of a small portion of a cable modem Internet circuit board. The actual production graphics data is rendered in a CAD tool then manufactured from multiple individual layers of copyrighted proprietary vector graphics artwork (not shown here). You might have a “real” one of these in… Continue reading The Net

HummerHead

Commodore Amiga 3000, Imagine 3D 2.0 software – This work won honorable mention in a national Computer Animation competition for the Amiga computer. Unfortunately, this digitized video is made from a VHS tape recording. I no longer have the Amiga computer this was built on that would provide a sharper image. The underlying message of HummerHead is… Continue reading HummerHead

Space Traveler

This is my rendition of Ed White’s historic 1965 spacewalk. The above space traveler was drawn with black ink on one side and painted on the opposite side with acrylic in the fashion of early animation cel production. 1978 – Acrylic and ink on acetate with background photographic print

Space is Out There

Thanks to folks such as the good people at APOD we have at our Internet fingertips an impressively large quantity of very high quality artistic and scientific images from the seeable universe. Their Astronomy Picture of the Day featured images are wonders to behold and many would argue enough for our astronomical appetite. But for others the thought of… Continue reading Space is Out There

Log Cabin Church

Log Cabin Church is my personal favorite work. I painted this for my godparents. They were members here. My godmother always said this was my masterpiece. I discovered this beautiful church in 1973. I saw the buildings as reflecting the two testaments of the Christian Bible. I took artistic license and replaced the road in… Continue reading Log Cabin Church

Portal

Comprehension of eternity is fully one giant leap beyond the pale. We don’t know the exact birthday, but we celebrate Jesus’s Birth on December 25. Such a humble beginning. And what a strong mother Mary must have been to travel over one hundred miles in those days from Nazareth to Bethlehem at nine months pregnant! Portal is a study… Continue reading Portal

101

Dalmatians I’m unsure what year I did this piece but it was during my commercial art career. I painted it for my sweet sister-in-law, Mary and her Dalmatian buddy, ‘Dottie’. I worked from a print of a scene from Disney’s 1961 release, 101 Dalmatians. I used the same techniques employed by the Disney artists to render… Continue reading 101

Beatles

This was my first work in this medium (animation cel). I had mistakenly painted George’s pants yellow before painting the Yellow Submarine so I opted to paint the submarine tail red instead of starting over… illustrative proof that two wrongs don’t make a right! 1975 – Acrylic and ink on acetate

Princess Ariel

Pictured first, below is the second step in producing an animation cel. In this case, I traced a print of Glen Keane’s rendering. Usually my first step is a pencil drawing on paper then trace my drawing using a rapidigraph pen or ink brush on the acetate as shown above. The $1.00 cotton garden glove with thumb… Continue reading Princess Ariel

Nantucket Sleigh Ride

Exposition This piece came about shortly after starting my commercial art career. It’s a tribute to the rapid-o-graph pen (used heavily in graphic arts) and includes a reflection of my disordered (but “somewhat” disciplined) young man’s brain. The work shares free hand with drafting tool aided drawing techniques. The composition started with a schematic of… Continue reading Nantucket Sleigh Ride

Stages

A brief career outline The six drawings below are selections from stage 1 of my young adult commercial art career life, whereupon I had planned to produce an amateur animated film. I was on a tight budget in 1974 and didn’t have a proper camera… just a bunch of drawings. The project was shelved. In stage 2 of my professional life,… Continue reading Stages

Cougar

Mascot study. Our daughters started playing softball in Spring 1992. The next season found me as their assistant coach. Katie was on the T-birds and Ash was on the Cougars. Katie’s team mascot was an Amiga computer drawing. (I no longer own that computer) 1993 – Pencil on paper

Andy Panda

My first commercial artist’s job was to sketch on paper, make a Xerox copy then transfer the Xerox to a canvas backed rubber sheet. The quarter inch thick sheet was hand engraved for making a flexographic printing plate mold masters. I no longer have the original sketch, just this copy. The old Xerox camera with… Continue reading Andy Panda

Doodle Bug

I liked drawing cars as a kid… this is one of the cuter ones. 1969 – Ink on pencil on paper

Sweet Potato

Headin’ for the chuck wagon! This was a drawing for commercial boxes of yams. The film positive was made from my original pen and ink and painted with color markers. (The red and brown color markers ran on the photo paper over the years…) 🫠 1976 – Ink on film positive

Goofy

A goofy sketch Found this while purging my files. Pencil on notepad

Pluto

Something’s up This drawing predates my ability to recall when I did it. Pluto is actually speaking his first words from his two dimensional flat plane domain. Pluto’s original creators did not see fit to give him an English speaking role. Pluto was oppressed. He was subservient to his master, Mickey Mouse. And to make… Continue reading Pluto

Mickey Mouse

Mickey Mouse in the house I grew up on cartoons and Mickey was one of my favorites. He was a good guy. But he didn’t finish last. He was a soft spoken hero. The Mickey Mouse image at the bottom of the photo below and the further down, below Santa Mickey image are cutouts from… Continue reading Mickey Mouse

Blue Jets

I liked drawing airplanes as a kid… this is my ‘older kid’ self favorite. 1970 – Color pencil on color paper

Turbo

This piece is a photo positive made from my ink drawing on illustration board. Mylar graphic art screens were used for the gray areas. 1978 – Film positive of pen and ink drawing

Ken’s Ride

The highlights I painted on the windshields reminds me of the inevitable bug collisions. I reckon it’s a good argument for a full face helmet… Motorcycles are great fun but not without risk. They can be very maneuverable but are no match for any automobile that swerves or pulls out in front of you. 1979… Continue reading Ken’s Ride

Fond‘a Honda

This was done for fun. I imagined it would make a cool T-shirt. 1983 – Art Film proof from graphic artwork -pen and ink

Angle Wrangle

A fun project! I printed several of these with the intent to sell them but didn’t. I completed the entire graphics production including sketch, pen and ink, rubylith color overlay, grayscale screens, camera ready mechanical, graphic arts camera work and printing on a 1250 Multilith offset printing press. 1982 – 11×14 Lithograph – pen and… Continue reading Angle Wrangle

Traversity

I made two of these road dwelling dragons (left and right) for my 1979 Kawasaki LTD 1000 motorcycle (below). The two holes align with a gas tank mounting bracket. It started as a pen and ink drawing that was etched in magnesium (thanks to my friend Dub) then I carved it out of the etch… Continue reading Traversity

Dragon One

Too scary for toddlers, this is the first pen and ink of my dragon. I found it when cleaning out my files while sheltering in place. I love dragons. They can represent spiritual control of the deep, the Devil himself, or the simple playfulness of an artist’s hand. 1971 – Pen and ink on paper

Grasp1

This was an exercise in Dragon drawing. It evolved into “Grasp2”. 1974 – Pencil on paper

Grasp2

Grasp as in “Get a Grip”… Evil Is out to rule the world. Always has been. Love overcomes when nothing else does. 1974 – Pen and Ink on paper

Fireworks

These images of “my Dragon” are photographs of the first and third storyboard set of three watercolors that were inspired by Gandalf’s fireworks at Bilbo’s Magnificent Party from The Fellowship of the Ring by J.R.R. Tolkien. The first painting sets the “fireworks” stage. The second painting is MIA and featured the “earth” being reborn and… Continue reading Fireworks

Covid

I originally started drawing this dragon in 1971 (see Dragon One). He’s always been full of mischief, but I hadn’t thought about naming him until deadly COVID-19 hit. March 2020 – Watercolor on watercolor pad

Flames

This animation cel character painting cartoon of Covid was another post-retirement refresher project for me. One thing that you might find interesting about painting on transparent acetate is that the cartoon is viewed from the opposite side from where the paint is applied so that the brush strokes aren’t visible. That means the highlights are painted first then background last. For… Continue reading Flames

Balance

Human art is a reflection from our human senses. Our sense of balance is sourced inside our hearing. Our senses of emotion and self are sourced inside our brain where all is processed. God designed us to hear physically AND emotionally. We “hear” physically through our sense of balance ears. We can also “hear” spiritually… Continue reading Balance