by EdKoehler | Sep 13, 2015 | Art and Whimsy
Anita O’Day The film Jazz on a Summer’s Day showcases Anita O’Day singing Sweet Georgia Brown at the 1958 Newport Jazz Festival. I captured this scene for my Movie Still Sketchbook. The film is in color, but I chose black and white because I...
by EdKoehler | Aug 9, 2015 | Art and Whimsy
ToonWare Some years ago I opened an online shop called ToonWareHouse (check out the menu bar, thank you). During some down time I created a series of musicians just for the fun of it. I didn’t intend these to be for any particular purpose other than playing...
by EdKoehler | Aug 2, 2015 | Art and Whimsy
All the widows stood beside him weeping and showing tunics and other garments that Dorcas made while she was with them. There isn’t a lot of detail about Dorcas (also called Tabitha) in Luke’s narrative in the Acts of the Apostles. In addition to being a...
by EdKoehler | Jul 5, 2015 | Art and Whimsy
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...
by EdKoehler | Jun 7, 2015 | Art and Whimsy
In my inaugural post I promised to explore the value of humorous art for children’s books, educational material and the like. The world in which I usually work, religious publishing, is a serious world. As well it should be, because the mission of my publishers...
