by EdKoehler | Jul 12, 2015 | Art and Whimsy
I like things that fly. I like airplanes, I like kites, and I like birds. I really like birds. I don’t study them, nor do I watch them like those pith-helmeted enthusiasts with binoculars. Truth is, I know little about them except that they are beautiful,...
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 21, 2015 | Art and Whimsy
On a recent Saturday morning in St. Louis, I headed to the Missouri Botanical Garden for their dazzling Chinese lantern exhibit, Magic Reimagined. Admittedly daytime is not when you’re supposed to view a lantern exhibit, but I wanted to get a preview and the...
by EdKoehler | Jun 14, 2015 | Art and Whimsy
Once when I was about twelve or so, I watched a couple of penguins peck at each other at our St. Louis Zoo. At the time I took it that they were fighting and I was interested in the outcome. Penguins are whimsical enough when they’re doing nothing, but these two...
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...
by EdKoehler | May 31, 2015 | 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...
