Crouching Tiger, Talking Penguin

Crouching Tiger, Talking Penguin

Tony the Tiger ©Kellog Company Are Saturday morning cartoons still popular? In my youth they were the indispensable kick off to the  weekend reprieve from reading, writing, and arithmetic. My earliest visual and narrative memories are cartoons. Perhaps like you, I...
Art and Whimsy

Art and Whimsy

Welcome to Art and Whimsy This is the first post in my new blog on the type of art I know best, whimsical children’s art. I use whimsical in a rather broad way to describe children’s art. The illustrations that fill my career can be categorized as...
Museums

Museums

On my FB page (and my FB business page: www.facebook.com/EdKoehlerIllustrator)  I’m posting photos of museums that I’ve visited. Then I ask you try to identify the museum. It’s for fun, but it’s mostly to encourage visiting museums. I’m...
Puzzles, Games, and Rebuses

Puzzles, Games, and Rebuses

My work for Christian publishing involves everything from full color children’s book illustrations, curriculum, to kid’s activity books. These activity books are fun, colorful, appropriately complex  for specific ages. I may be assigned puzzles, games,...

Do Feed the Animals

For a recent promotional series I invested in livestock. As my work is largely for the juvenile educational market, I created a series of fun animals for my next batch of postcards. For this campaign I opted for minimal vector drawing with simple, primary and...