Something here changes almost every day. Either I’m adding a new paragraph, picture or post, correcting or deleting an old one, or simply rearranging things.

I do LOTS of editing… it’s calming. With me it’s like shampooing; wash, rinse, repeat. The shampoo directions don’t say “wash, rinse, repeat once”. No, it says, “wash, rinse, repeat”. It takes a whole bottle to get my head clean. If my website had another name it’d be Calm Olive Branch Shampoo.

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”A breath of fresh air.”

I’m a painfully shy artist. I’m not trying to sell anyone anything. I am addressing my inherent artist’s desire to “speak” to an audience with my work.

I pretend there’s a global audience but I’m building Ed’s Art Net primarily for my family and me. It’s a ‘work in progress’ and may simply end up as an offline family heirloom… daddy, pop pop’s wacky old art asylum. My calming refuge in a stormy world.

It almost keeps me out of trouble

I don’t think there’s anything that can keep me from obsessing over this website short of the cessation of breathing. It’s more fun than I can shake a stick at.

It’s an artist’s dream

Website dynamics allow me to change almost anything at any time as long as the internet and design tools are operational. I keep changing things because I’m not perfect. Web publishing satisfies my drive to make my work better. There’s not a single drawing, painting, writing or anything I’ve ever done that couldn’t stand improvement.

Organic intelligence

I haven’t explored using AI. Nothing in Ed’s Art Net is designed using artificial intelligence. Seldom do I use intelligence. I do use AI sometimes for spelling and grammar check and vice versa. Autocorrect occasionally generates an unwanted result.

Computers are not smart. People are smart. God didn’t create computers. Just the elements and the human designers that fashion those elements of Creation into tools.

I expect I’ll be editing until I can’t type

So far, it’s been fun and challenging, kinda like cleaning up a mess in the yard DURING a storm. But it’s getting easier. Efforts entered a major paradigm shift when I discovered how to build text hyperlinks.

Thanks for spending time with me

🔴🟡🟢 Visitor traffic-wise… I’m working towards a future audience; my kids kid’s kids, and so on.

online since September 2007
…but not the same

I’ve been told my website gives folks pause to think.

This web place isn’t without cyber safeguards, but it isn’t the end of the world if Ed’s Art Net goes offline. 🤭

If Ed’s Art Net were to be parental rated, it would likely be PG-13. Some of my artwork and writing might scare young kids. Please share responsibly. ❤️

Susan told me that my website sounds a lot like preaching. I’m not a preacher. I’m a husband and father who sounds a lot like a preacher… on his website. It is what it is. I just work here.

✳️ Hint: Some images are also links

AfterWords 🐶

Currently…
I’m about 15 in dog years
my wife says I’m 10
my brain tells me I’m 9
But I’m actually in my 8th decade…
as measured by Earth standards
…relatively old for a kid

Born 3 November 1951, I’m a Commonologist*. My last career job was computer aided design of internet operating circuit board layouts along with a distinguished team of engineers, managers and support personnel. Prior to that I was an electronics technician evolving into circuit board design in the defense industry working with tactical missile systems. My first career job was a professional artist. During my younger years I worked many odd jobs beginning at age nine with a newspaper delivery route.

*Commonologist – an everyday person who studies the obvious.

Credits

Special thanks to my Susan’s without whom I would be lost in space.

Thanks to my family and friends for their help, life lessons, love, and patient understanding.

Most of all, thanks to God, who deserves ALL the credit for EVERYTHING!

We are God made and man kind.

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artists finish their work
an audience completes it

Thanks for visiting!

Ed’s Art Net dedicated to Susan
my wife and best friend