by EdKoehler | May 7, 2013 | Miscellaneous
Hi again. I’m just about to page 600, which will leave a bit less than 300 to go. I’m reading slowly as I’ve got a bad habit of reading several books at a time. I’m trying to correct that nonsense and limit myself to two. Here’s where...
by EdKoehler | Apr 24, 2013 | Miscellaneous
I’m moving along through the Van Gogh biography. He has left Paris and is now in Arles. If you know Van Gogh, you know that means he is nearing the end. I’m now in 1888 and Van Gogh died in 1890. More about that later, as there is some dispute as to how he...
by EdKoehler | Apr 9, 2013 | Miscellaneous
My daughter gave me the new Van Gogh biography for Christmas. Van Gogh, The Life is written by Steven Naifeh and Gregory White Smith. Hailed as “Magisterial” by the New York Times’ Michiko Kakutani, it is as heavy a bio as any I’ve read since...
by EdKoehler | Mar 6, 2013 | Children's Books
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...
by EdKoehler | Jan 17, 2013 | Uncategorized
Now we are only a few days from Valentine’s Day and this image is more appropriate. Happy Valentine’s Day everyone. This illustration is just for fun and isn’t intended to be mystical or new-agey or anything other than a creative way of capturing the...
by EdKoehler | Jan 13, 2013 | Uncategorized
To Tell a Different Story is an event honoring Dr. Martin Luther King which will feature award winning author Patricia McKissack and four story illustrators, Richard Bernal, John Dyess, Michael Halbert and Ed Koehler. The show will be up from it’s opening...
by EdKoehler | Jan 5, 2013 | Uncategorized
We saw the Frederico Barocci exhibit at the St. Louis Art Museum. Federico Barocci (c. 1526, Urbino – 1612, Urbino) was an Italian Renaissance painter and printmaker. A student of Michaelangelo, Barocci is not well known in the U.S. This is an impressive exhibit with...
by EdKoehler | Jan 4, 2013 | Uncategorized
Happy New Year to all! I for one am going into 2013 with considerable optimism about illustration. It’s good, it’s healthy and it’s fun. 2012 was a good year with great projects and I even took time to take a Fall semester illustration class at a...
by EdKoehler | Aug 28, 2012 | Uncategorized
Coby Whitmore Click the title above and then click on the small Coby Whitmore link to read my blog about this great illustrator.
by EdKoehler | Aug 9, 2012 | Uncategorized
We just spent a week in New York City. New York of course is the home of some of the world’s greatest museums, and we took in many. The Met, MOMA, and Guggenheim of course, as well as the American Museum of Natural History. These are all beyond compare but the...
