/*################################################################# Generated with JavaScript Indexer v1.15.01 on 1/9/2006 6:13:23 PM #################################################################*/ Page=new Array(); Page[0]=new Array("About the Artist...","Edward K.","Hudson","Edward K.","Hudson was born in Mexico City.","His father was from Syracuse, New York while originally his father's family was from Ireland.","His mother was from Mexico City while her family was originally from Spain.","This diversity in culture and language were fascinating and enriching to Edward who grew up immersed in two very different worlds.","Edward originally studied commercial art and photography in the early 1980's and pursued these areas of interest for many years, including a period owning and operating a photo studio in Ventura California, as well as a motion picutre and commercial casting business for extras in Hollywood, California.","He spent the last 15 years creating 2D and 3D graphics and animation for computer, console, and mobile games.","Recently, Edward earned a Bachelors degree in Information Technology in additon to two Business Masters and commencing his PhD.","He has displayed his paintings and photographs in a one man show in Camarillo, California.","In addition, some of his work is on display at Sea Breeze Art Gallery in Ventura, California.","He has won several awards for his paintings and computer graphic images.","Recently he participated on a judging panel for a local Ventura art show.","He now dedicates all of his artistic time, focus, and vision to creating his time-period oil paintings.","Contact Edward for more information","Edward K. Hudson About the Artist","http://www.edwardkhudson.com/about.htm","6.4","9 Jan 2006"); Page[1]=new Array("Biography","History As Art","I have always been fascinated with touching the past.","From a very young age, I was aware that my parents, grandparents, and some of their older relations had arrived at the point at which I met them, from a trip through an older time which was no longer accessible physically, yet which still existed inside them in their thoughts and in their experiences.","When I was three or four, I was aware of a prior time when my parents had lived in another city, in another house, and I had not yet been born.","I knew that a great war had taken place before my time.","I was conscious of the fact that cars had been different back then.","I had seen photos in which clothing was of a different style.","I had been told stories about relatives who had lived sixty years before my birth.","But those times were not lost - they were very much alive and real inside of the people who were closest to me.","It is most interesting that although we were not there, in a way, our own histories go back to times and places which were a part of our parents, grandparents, and older friends.","By knowing them, by living with them and their values, their habits, their ways – and their experiences – those older historic times become, in a way, a part of us.","I know very much about the nineteen fifties, the forties, the thirties…back to the turn of the century – through my family.","They were there.","They told me about it and shared photos, keepsakes, and heirlooms.","I “remember” the days when everyone wore a hat, or a coat and tie.","I “remember” the darkness of the days when America was at war – women entered the workforce in record numbers; tires, gasoline, and sugar were rationed – and you used a ration book when you went to the store.","I “remember” a very young Bing Crosby just starting out, a fifteen year old Judy Garland, Mickey Rooney – the “child” actor – and when Arty Shaw was King of Swing.","Going further back, I remember the sadness of the Depression, the madness of Prohibition, the zaniness of The Varsity Drag…and flagpole sitters, Amelia Earhart, the Fatty Arbuckle scandal.","Do you remember glass milk bottles delivered to your door at dawn? How about dance cards, which listed the names of the dance partners with whom a young lady had agreed to dance at a party? Going even further back, I “remember” the darkness of our first “great” war, the ubiquity of Thomas Edison, cylinder players (“talking machines”) in every home, the seeming magic of the flying machine and the horseless carriage, circular wick kerosene lamps – and kerosene powered cars – even steam cars - telegraph messages, and stereopticans in every home's sitting room.","Do you remember oleomargarine - when you had to mix in the yellow coloring capsules? How about the Columbian World's Exposition in 1893, celebrating 400 years since Columbus stumbled upon this continent?","Yet I wasn't there.","My earliest memories carry a mix of images.","I clearly remember my first tangible thoughts and can place them in the timeline, because I started life with a harsh reality myself that has served as a marker for me: my father died when I was two.","It helps me identify memories before that event, and after it.","I remember my mother's worry and anguish.","I remember being left at a friend's house overnight while she spent the night in the hospital, waiting and praying.","I was born in the same year that John F.","Kennedy was assassinated and the Beatles had several number one hits in England – just six months later they would make their first appearance in the U.S.","This was only 18 years after the end of World War II.","Think back at how close 18 years is: for us in 2005, this is just 1987…and literally, many of our memories of that year seem like only yesterday.","Of course, I don't remember the Kennedy assassination first hand.","I know that my father greatly disliked the Beatles and their “long hair.” I do remember the excitement surrounding the Robert Kennedy assassination three years later even though I was still a small tike, and other memories, such as the introduction of color television, the Vietnam war, hippies, 45 records, the moon landing, “space food sticks” (a terrible snack food), and much more.","We all have these connections with the past.","It saddens me that the old becomes the unwanted, the disposable, the “old-fashioned,” the unused, the forgotten.","There is a strong tendency to value only that which seems to be new, stylish, trendy, hip, chic, and popular, and to discredit that which seems old and worn – to desire to discard it, replace it, forget it.","Yet, had it not been for that which seems so useless and archaic to many, none of us would be here today! Those times, events, ideas, inventions, fashions, buildings, vehicles, machines, devices, activities, wars, styles, attitudes, wishes, desires, and dreams of those many, many people who came before were just as real and tangible to them as ours are to us! In my art, I wish to capture and celebrate those times and those people.","Art As Vindication","I have drawn, doodled, and sketched almost as long as I can remember holding a pencil.","Other than finger painting in kindergarten or coloring in coloring books, my earliest memory of creating art is in the second grade, when Mrs.","Siefker, my teacher, told my mother she thought I was “behind” conceptually in art! Imagine that – I was criticized for drawing stick figures at the age of six! My mother thought it was preposterous, and I thought it was insulting! I engaged thereafter in an effort to prove this (and other) teachers wrong.","I looked at drawings, I looked in books, and I started to copy images – mostly items that interested me.","I remember a book from the school library concerning the history of bicycles, and drawing bicycles from the current era back to the late 1800's.","I started illustrating every school report I was assigned and even to make illustrated covers for each.","This trend continued on until I graduated from high school.","I remember in particular one incident when I created a rather accurate yet insulting caricature of a teacher and passed it around the classroom.","Eventually, she confiscated the paper as it made its rounds.","I thought I was doomed – yet, instead, she complimented me on the “good drawing!” What a relief!","My interests – and belligerence – continued as well.","I failed miserably at piano lessons, in which I had no interest.","I managed to trick my piano teacher, a very strict and aged nun who would fall asleep during my lessons, by watching her play each piece as an example.","I would memorize the beginning and end of the piece she was demonstrating.","Later, I would begin playing a piece slowly and with some “staged” difficulty, I would stall long enough for her to fall asleep.","I would then prepare my hands, wait an appropriately long period of time, cough or make another noise in order to wake her, and then triumphantly play the final chord of the piece.","Of course, I counted on her not admitting that she had fallen asleep, so she would praise me and give me my gold star for completing the piece.","Then she would play the next piece for me, during which I would start the process over again paying close attention to the beginning and end.","After about a year, I was suddenly caught when she did NOT fall asleep during a session.","She demanded I play.","Eventually she realized that I knew nothing.","My mother was called in and was told – with me within earshot – that I would “never learn to play!” That was all I needed.","I spent the next many years learning piece after piece “by ear,” in order to play classical pieces and to prove her wrong! Ten years later, when I was 17, I appeared in a play in which I was required to play classical Beethoven pieces.","I invited her specifically for this reason and felt quite exonerated to have this now 82 year old nun tell me I played beautifully.","Art As Defense","When I was in high school, a certain classmate with gang affiliations and a history of bullying students, suddenly chose me as a target.","I tried ignoring him and going about my business, but he sought me out.","After several weeks of this and attempting to lure me into a fight which I simply refused to respond to, he noticed me doodling in class one day.","I was drawing cartoons of Jimmy Carter and on the same page I had a caricature of our English teacher.","He asked to see them and was impressed.","Then he shared his secret: “I draw too.” He pulled out some pages with drawings, mostly comic book-like figures that were really quite good.","We became secret friends and his bullying came to an abrupt end.","In that class we would exchange drawings and have quiet discussions while the teacher lectured.","But outside of that classroom, he maintained his tough, gang member persona between himself and his targets, as well as his cohorts and other gang member peers.","Art As A Way Of Life","Not being born in this country and losing my American dad when I was two, life was a struggle from early-on.","I was born in Mexico City and became an American citizen when I was seven.","English is my second language.","My mother, who struggled with the English language but who had a very strong work ethic, tried valiantly to ensure I never went without, but was in no situation to assist me with the expense of a University education once that time came around.","I won the Bank of America Art Award as well as a couple of grants which helped to offset some of my costs, but it was not sufficient for a four year school.","I could attend a junior college and I knew I had to get the most out of that and it would have to do for now.","I attended Ventura College in Ventura , CA full-time for almost six years and took nearly every class offered! I was fortunate to attend Ventura College when it was at its height – a sort-of “golden age” in the early 1980s during which time, leadership of the art department was strong and three powerful forces with great tenure were at their zenith there: Mr.","Bernard Dietz – drawing, figure drawing and commercial illustration; Mr.","Richard Phelps – drawing, color and design, painting, and advertising; and Mr.","Carlisle Cooper – drawing, color and design, head drawing and head painting.","Anyone taking classes within the art department at that time simply HAD to take courses from these three artists.","In addition, a number of other great instructors were available in a number of fields, including Gerd Koch, painting; Wes Johnson, etching; Ellis Jump, sculpture; Hiroko Yoshimoto, printmaking and watercolor; Mary Michael, silk screen; Norman Kirk, watercolor; Chris Martinez, cartooning; Harry Korn, art history; Robert Fogata and Tom Roe, photography; and many others.","I had no plan when I started and I was then, as now, torn between interests: writing, music, and art.","I never expected the powerful guidance, leadership, and example I received when I started studying under these three forces.","This triumvirate of scholastic and artistic icons melded three very different types of personalities and approaches into one very effective force.","Without a father as an example during my younger years, this experience not only taught me about art, it taught me about who I wanted to be, what I wanted to be, what I should be, and how to go about being that person.","These instructors did not just teach art.","Because art touches all parts of a life, they taught about life.","Since those days I often – and still – find myself following the examples and teachings of these great instructors.","Mr.","Dietz was a powerful force – strong opinions, strong willed, experienced, and formally trained.","He was formerly a product illustrator and later an architect – he was involved in the design of the Capitol Records circular “record stack” building in Hollywood .","He taught us how to see form, how to draw the human body, how to illustrate, how to THINK.","He insisted we carry dictionaries with us at all times and look up anything we did not know or understand.","Mr.","Dietz was known for not putting up with nonsense, for picking up a student and his drawing board and physically throwing him out of the classroom, for his tough critiques, for his blunt honesty, for his driving students to excel, for his very academic and scholarly approach, and for caring so much about his students that it almost drove him to illness.","He was passionate and he cared.","In addition to urging me to strive for knowledge and excellence, he managed to motivate me to be the best that I can be.","Mr.","Dietz taught me to “KNOW what you want to do – and then DO it!” He taught me that I am not an expert – on most things – and so I must “Go to the pro – and do what they do!” when I embark on a project or assignment.","He would tease us by saying, “memorize THAT, and you'll have it in a nutshell!” Mr.","Dietz also told me that I was as flighty as a “goddamn gadfly” and needed to better discipline myself and “get to work.” During one of my overly-long breaks, when all the other students had returned to class and commenced working, he scrawled across my newsprint figure drawing, “Hudson, get your behind in here or ELSE!”","He was absolutely right, too.","I still have that sheet, matted and framed, hanging in my studio above my easel.","Mr.","Dietz retired in 1983 and most of us never saw him again.","I managed to keep in touch for a while, and then lost track of him for over 20 years.","I managed to run into him by accident while shopping a few months ago, and we were both delighted.","In his nineties, he was still radiant and boisterous as ever.","He remembered me and I thanked him again for all he had given me.","He died three days after our chance encounter.","Mr.","Phelps was a fantastic practicing artist who appreciated fast work and who had an amazing eye for color.","Prior to Ventura College , he had headed the art department at an advertising agency in San Francisco for 15 years.","Painting in acrylic, he had several shows a year and managed to sell every piece in every show – not many can say that! Mr.","Phelps was quite prolific in his painting.","He was also very serious about our work in the classroom, but much more forgiving than Mr.","Dietz.","Mr.","Phelps had an impressive contingent of “fans” comprised of retirees and housewives who loved his classes and personality, and who followed his schedule around in order to take classes from him specifically.","He was very skilled at balancing his approach between the younger crowd of students with sights set at University degrees and professional graphic arts careers – who needed more discipline and a heavier hand in critiques and criticisms – and those who enrolled in his classes for pleasure and personal growth.","Mr.","Phelps possessed a veritable cornucopia of knowledge and information, and was generously willing to share it if the student showed an interest.","Many, MANY times did he stop in the middle of class, say “follow me!” after I asked him a question and rush down to the college library with me in hot pursuit in order to grab a book, hand it to me, and say “you need this – look at page 504 and you'll know what I mean,” then punch me HARD in the shoulder (it really smarted!) and run back up to the classroom to the rest of the waiting students, while I checked out the book and headed back myself.","Mr.","Phelps was the perfect counterpart, the perfect balance, to Mr.","Dietz.","He now resides in Tennessee and continues painting.","I visited him a few years ago and showed up with a dozen paintings in my van – which he willingly critiqued and advised on, teaching and giving as always.","Not, however, before walking up to me first and without saying a word, punching me HARD in the shoulder and then muttering, “just like old times.”","Mr.","Cooper is the last Southern Gentleman, originally from Charlotte , North Carolina .","He has had a long and varied career, long ago creating the old Daniel Boone ink-drawing based cartoons for newspaper syndication.","Smooth, patient, calm, and precise, he guided us through many drawing, color and design, and head drawing assignments and tasks, knowing that most of us would have to take his head drawing and head painting classes several times before we “got it.” He has been my instructor, mentor, and friend for twenty four years and to this day I have not seen him angry ONCE! Amazingly, he still teaches at Ventura College and still continues to paint.","Mr.","Cooper helped us to SEE what was actually there – and to discover the errors in what we THOUGHT was there.","Our goal was to carefully measure and plot out the underlying structures in our drawings, as well as the color, the light, and the darkness.","The reasoning, of course, is that if we can accurately see and depict what “is there,” what the model or still life or landscape is showing us, then we can do what we like with it – we can control it, change it, change the value and color to do whatever we like.","But this should be a deliberate action of the artist, not an accident.","This is what he does in his own work, using his knowledge of form, composition, and color, to create fabulous and colorful visions that interpret his feelings, thoughts, and ideas and presents them in creative and powerful images.","Mr.","Cooper taught me patience, and he taught me that I can slow my speed down and be accurate – something I always had trouble with and still struggle with to this day.","With the help of these instructors, I was able to attain a great amount of knowledge and a great deal of education and information, not only about art and technique, but about life and about knowing who I want to be – and who I want to become.","In addition to art, I became infatuated with photography.","I embarked on a great photographic journey, taking every photography class offered and learning all aspects of the discipline, from cameras to darkroom work, from black and white to color, from products to fashion to landscapes to portraits, from 35mm to 4 x 5, from art photography to journalism, and studying everything from daguerreotypes to calotypes, to albumen prints, tin types, stereoviews, glass negatives, black and white negatives, color slides, color film, restoration….and now on my own, digital photography and computer image processing.","I received my associate degrees in commercial art and photography by the mid-eighties.","I knew that for the time being I would have to be satisfied with that, as far as a “formal” education – but what an education I had received! Six years working full-time with the best! I consider myself quite fortunate for the time I spent with them.","Art As A Living","Upon leaving my first-round of schooling, I entered the workforce and began immediately practicing what I had learned.","As early as my first year in college, my instructors had passed along contract job opportunities to me such as logo design, business card design, artist concept painting for construction, poster design, and so forth.","Now I embarked on larger projects with larger companies.","I still did not have a direction for my own personal art, so I experimented externally with commercial art and photography.","I first worked for Broughton Advertising, creating advertisements for newspaper and print.","Later, I worked for government contractors, photographing U.S.","Navy ships for technical manual work.","Through a great many turn of events, I wound up writing the technical manuals myself, in addition to the photography and ready-for-print layouts.","Later, I would develop an interest in software development and went on to create an F-18 and weapons system simulator for the U.S.","Navy as well, under a Secret clearance.","Always looking to learn and grow, I co-owned and operated an extras-casting business in Hollywood , CA where I had the opportunity to photograph hundreds of actors and models for portfolios and headshots.","After three years, I went on to open a photo studio in Ventura , CA , during which time I befriended an NBC cameraman – who had filmed the first, original Apollo splash down landing – and he taught me how to shoot and edit video professionally.","I shot many portraits, weddings, parties, and events – such as Sugar Ray Leonard's 40 th birthday party in Beverly Hills , and the Cabrillo Theater Company's performances of Jesus Christ Superstar and Gypsy.","During this same time, I continued my exploration of software and digital media.","I started creating artwork for commercial computer software products and computer games.","My very first product was an Energizer Bunny Screen Saver.","I entered the computer game industry and worked in it for 14 years, involved in 2D animation, 3D animation, motion capture, and work on such products as the Heroes of Might and Magic series.","During this time, what I suspected – actually, what I had known - had come to pass: I could not be happy simply creating artwork and graphics for commercial jobs while ignoring my own interests, pursuits, and creativity.","While wandering through an estate sale one day, I stumbled onto a wonderful old set of photo albums, containing within the tired and tattered pages the entire life of a man named Erling.","In its pages I found documented an entire life experience from the age of 8 to about 85, covering the late 1800's through the mid 1970's – Victorian outfits; work in a tin mine; early vehicles; early submarine torpedo tests; an early flying machine demonstration; presumably a first girlfriend; pet cocker spaniels; relatives; travels through California (Ventura, Ojai, Los Angeles, San Francisco) as well as other states; poses with actor friends on the set of silent movies; the Queen Mary painted drab gray for war service; outings with friends and family; fishing with old friends after retirement.","It was a wonderful experience and I could relate to so much of it from my own family and old stories.","Yet, it was tragic to me that there seemed to be no one who would want these albums – no relatives or loved ones to claim them.","It appeared, from the albums themselves that he never married and had no children.","Suddenly, I felt a great inspiration and knew what I wanted to do - what I had to do: gather the experiences, the history, the special moments and lives of these long gone and forgotten times and people and put them on canvas.","My vision and goal is to try to capture the feeling of the time – whatever that time may be – and the people behind it, and to express that tiny moment in my work.","I started by exploring ideas and moments from Erling's collection and then looked at my own family and albums.","I started to explore the history of these times on my own in more detail, trying to better understand the people I saw and painted in context of the world they knew.","I create compositions combining elements and artifacts relevant to the period represented in the piece.","Sometimes there may be more of these elements and sometimes none at all – only people - because to me it is the people who are the most important parts of the piece.","Sometimes most of the elements I need can be found in only one or two old images.","Other times, I combine several.","I want the images to capture the essence of an old photograph, perhaps even that of an old colorized photograph, in order to maintain the feeling I have when I look through the old albums and images.","Sometimes my base is black and sometimes more of a dark sepia color, but always, I strive for the feeling of a snapshot in time.","I paint in oil on canvas, because acrylic feels too new and modern for my subject matter.","I paint large because I believe that the feeling I wish to both capture and evoke is more clearly seen on a larger canvas.","I absolutely don't want a photorealistic replica of an image – why not simply look at the old photos instead? Rather, I want a representation, an interpretation that includes my own feelings and stylized expression in addition to the subject matter.","Just like often old images contain imperfections, blurring, and fading, I enjoy employing a looseness which allows an imperfect humanity to show through – wrinkles in clothing, faded light values due to overexposure, lack of detail due to movement, and so on.","More than anything, however, I want to capture the feeling in the subjects within the image – I want to feel that I could have been there myself or that somehow I can feel what the experience was like or what the person was thinking – or even, that I personally knew the person in the painting.","One of the most difficult situations for me to rectify was the fact that working as a graphic artist – and later, as a 3D computer artist and animator for computer games – left me with very little desire to work on artwork on my own time.","In order to rid myself of this dilemma, I decided to return to school in 2001 and change careers.","If my full time work could be something other than artwork, I could then dedicate my personal time in pursuit of these artistic goals.","I decided that it was important for me to follow in the footsteps of my grandfather who held multiple degrees, one in medicine and two in accounting, and who had lived an interesting and colorful life while experiencing run-ins with a few historical contemporaries.","I therefore entered a program in Information Technology and earned my Bachelors, graduating Summa Cum Laude.","I earned a scholarship at this point which helped me to continue on with my MBA, and then an additional Masters in Marketing, graduating Summa Cum Laude in both of those as well.","I also began my Doctorate in Strategic Leadership.","With these new degrees under my belt, I re-entered the workforce, again in the game world but this time for mobile devices such as cell phones – and in management, as a Producer and Art Director.","Achieving this goal was both a personal triumph as well as a chance to devote all of my creative and artistic energy to creating the artwork that I feel called upon to paint.","I have spent countless hours wandering museum floors, studying my favorite Masters in art museums in Santa Barbara and Los Angeles, California; Denver, Colorado; St.","Louis, Missouri; Washington D.C.; Asheville, North Carolina; and many other locations as well – in addition to book and Internet research – and now I am making my own time to take my education to new and exciting destinations.","Art As History","Art can take many forms.","It is not simply paint on a canvas.","Many professions and skills are considered to be art forms.","Bringing together the past with my own experiences, my parent's and friend's experiences, and even the experiences of strangers such as Erling and representing the conflux of those experiences and events in a unified expression is to bring together a number of professions, disciplines, and many art forms which made history what it is.","In order, therefore, to better understand some of these art forms and periods of history, I expand my knowledge of the art forms.","Most of my furniture is not modern, but rather, sixty, seventy, eighty years old and older.","I have learned to restore it.","I have learned to work with lacquer instead of modern varnish.","I own several phonographs, victrolas, and cylinder players, some purchased in what is known as “barn fresh” condition – having seen their last fifty or so years as discarded, useless items stashed in someone's barn.","These, I have restored to fully working condition, rebuilding their mechanisms, installing new main-springs, and giving them a new life.","I collect old discs (“78's”) and cylinders, and I play them.","I also collect stereo images.","Another interest is circular wick kerosene lamps from the late 19 th century which I also restore to full functionality, and I use them as well.","In fact, I use all the items I acquire and restore.","This is not a collector's accumulation, but rather, a living art form which serves to breathe life into my paintings.","My piano is from 1915; my piano stool, from 1895.","I own and drive a 1949 Ford.","I discovered a wonderful wooden French clarinet from 1942 and a metal one from the 1920's which I learned to play.","I came across a beautiful treadle sewing machine which I also brought back to functionality and, although I will never be a tailor, I did learn to use it in order to better appreciate the experience of those who owned and used it before me.","I clean and restore old daguerreotype and tin type photographic plates, as well as old glass negatives from which I then make prints.","Everything is restored and brought back to life.","Of late, I have been gathering information in order to create daguerreotypes using authentic techniques and methods from the mid 19 th century.","Recently, I made my first 24 bottles of wine in order to explore another area with very old roots.","The point is, these art forms themselves are history just as history can be art – which brings me full circle to the point I started with: In my art, I wish to capture and celebrate those times and those people which have come and gone before and without whom we would not be here today! And so – I paint.","Edward K. Hudson Biography","http://www.edwardkhudson.com/bio.htm","33.9","9 Jan 2006"); Page[2]=new Array("Blog...","AllWebCo Website Template","http://www.edwardkhudson.com/blog.htm","5.7","9 Jan 2006"); Page[3]=new Array("Gallery One: Oil Paintings Price List","Click pictures for larger view","The Old Swimmin' Hole 1926","Oil on Canvas, 48" x 72"","$9500","Ice Skating with Pops 1929","Oil on Canvas, 48" x 60 "","$6500","Old Friends 1918","Oil on Canvas, 36 " x 48 "","Sold","Story Time with Grandpa 1905","Oil on Canvas, 48" x 60 "","$6000","Does This Dress Make Me Look Fat? 1949","Oil on Canvas, 48" x 72"","$5500","Man's Best Friend 1919","Oil on Canvas, 24 " x 36 "","$1200","Edward K. Hudson Original Pieces Price List","http://www.edwardkhudson.com/CARTgallery1.htm","19.3","9 Jan 2006"); Page[4]=new Array("Contact Form","If you have any questions or comments, please contact me by calling or e-mailing and I'll get back to you as soon as possible.","I look forward to hearing from you.","Click for Location Map and Directions","Name","Company","Phone","E-Mail","Please Select One -- Alltheweb AltaVista America Online AOLFind Ask Jeeves Excite Google Go Goto Hotbot Infoseek Lycos MSN Northern Lights Snap Web Crawler Yahoo Banner Ad Friend Website News Group Magazine/Newspaper Radio Other Found Us Where?","Comments/Questions:","Edward K. Hudson, Oil Painter - Contact","http://www.edwardkhudson.com/contact.htm","8.9","9 Jan 2006"); Page[5]=new Array("Gallery One: Oil Painting","Under each painting thumbnail you will find a description and time period date.","Each piece I create contains a story and time period on which it was based.","Sometimes I know who the people were if I have used an old photograph of the period as reference or, of course, a model.","At other times I do not know who they were.","Every piece has a story associated in as much as my intention, as an artist, is to create a "real" snapshot in time.","This story may be based on details I have from images I use, or they may be details I intentionally design and infuse into the image as it develops.","Click pictures for larger view","Click HERE to view the Price List.","The Old Swimmin' Hole 1926","Oil on Canvas, 48" x 72"","View Closeup 1","View Closeup 2","View Closeup 3","Friends of the Erling Armstrong family have gathered for a picnic outing in the hills outside of Ojai, California.","There, on this hot summer day, a few of them have hiked down to the stream where a dam of natural rocks has produced this old swimming hole in which to cool down, play, and enjoy the day and good company.","1926 saw the birth of Fidel Castro and Marilyn Monroe, as well as the creation of that soft cuddly character, Winnie the Pooh, by English humorist and children's storyteller Alan Alexander Milne.","In 1926 Calvin Coolidge was President, Italian Dictator Mussolini survived an assassination attempt, the 1907 film "Ben-Hur" (2nd silent version) was remade starring Ramone Navarro, Rudolph Valentino starred in "Son of the Sheik," "The Sun Also Rises" by Ernest Hemingway was published, and Jelly Roll Morton released his record, "Original Jelly-Roll Blues."","Ice Skating with Pops 1929","Oil on Canvas, 48" x 60"","View Closeup 1","View Closeup 2","View Closeup 3","Travelling back home to East Hampton, Massachussetts from San Francisco during Winter in 1929 was not the easy or fast trip that it is for us now - but it was certainly worth it.","Grandpa's 4 grown children made the trip for Christmas, 1928, and decided to stay until the New Year came.","They went ice skating out at the frozen lake just like in the "old days." Everyone is taking great care to ensure that Grandpa doesn't lose his balance - funny thing is, he's the only one who hasn't taken a spill!","1929 is marked by the start of the Great Depression and the Great Wall Street Crash which began on October 24.","U.S.","banks suspended all loans to Europe.","The Vatican, the smallest independent political entity in the world, was established as the spiritual center of the Roman Catholic Church.","The President was Herbert Hoover.","William Faulkner was busy publishing "The Sound and the Fury" and "Sartoris," while Ernest Hemingway released "A Farewell to Arms." Douglas Fairbanks and Mary Pickford starred in the sound picture, "The Taming of the Shrew." In music, Louis Armstrong was busy releasing "After You've Gone" and "St.","Louis Blues," while a young Bing Crosby (with the Ipana Troubadors) released "I'll Get By (As Long As I Have You)."","Old Friends 1918","Oil on Canvas, 36" x 48"","View Closeup 1","View Closeup 2","Although World War I had been dragging on for four long years, the end of 1918 brought an end to the war and so, despite many losses, people could again relax and celebrate their blessings with family and friends.","In this painting, two best friends - one who just returned from overseas and the other who was rejected from service due to health - visit and enjoy a cool December day on an automobile outing stop in the San Bernardino Mountains, California .","The big event for 1918 was the official end of World War I on November 11.","The President was Woodrow Wilson.","Despite the end of the war, this year also ushered in a major catastrophe when a particularly virulent strain of influenza claimed the lives of 20 million people around the world.","Born in this year were conductor, composer, and pianist Leonard Bernstein as well as one of the greateset jazz singers of all time, Ella Fitzgerald.","In literature, Willa Cather published "My Antonia," and the O.","Henry Award for the short story was established.","Charlie Chaplin starred in "Shoulder Arms," D.W.","Griffith directed "Hearts of the World," Arthur Fields recorded the war-time based song "Oh, How I Hate to Get Up in the Morning," and one of Thomas Edison's hand-picked recording stars, Henry Burr, recorded "Au Revoir but Not Goodbye."","Story Time with Grandpa 1905","Oil on Canvas, 48" x 60"","View Closeup 1","View Closeup 2","View Closeup 3","This portrait is based on photographs of my own great grandfather taken at the turn of the 20th century.","Sitting in popular rattan furniture of the period, he reads a bedtime story to two of his grandaughters - my aunts.","The President in 1905 was Theodore Roosevelt, one of our most intriguing and multi-facted Presidents, having won the Nobel Peace Prize, the only President awarded the Medal of Honor, the first President to travel outside the United States (Panama), the youngest President - and, the teddy bear was named after him.","In this year, the largest diamond ever found (Cullinan Diamond) was discovered, science fiction author Jules Verne died, two moons of Jupiter were discovered, the first theater intended exclusively for motion pictures opened in Pittsburgh, the first manned flight longer than 30 minutes was achieved by Orville Wright, ignition locks were introduced in automobiles, Las Vegas Nevada was founded, Albert Einstein presented his theory of relativity, Tyrannosaurus Rex was first identified by H.F.","Osborn, the automobile exceeded 100 mph, and Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid held up a bank in Argentina.","In literature, Edith Wharton published "The House of Mirth." In the music industry, Bob Roberts recorded "Everybody Works but Father," and the Criterion Quartet recorded "My Gal Sal," both on wax cylinders.","Does This Dress Make Me Look Fat? 1949","Oil on Canvas, 48" x 72"","View Closeup 1","View Closeup 2","View Closeup 3","This is Aunt Morilla.","Based on her photograph found at an estate sale, Aunt Morilla was on her way to Sunday Brunch - after early morning services of course - with her terrier.","She sent her picture to a friend or relative in the Armstrong family, and actually wrote on the back what eventually became the title of this piece, "Does this dress make me look fat?"","In 1949 Harry Truman was President, the Council of Europe formed and met for the first time, the Soviet Union tested its first atomic bomb, the People's Republic of China was formed, Israel was accepted into the U.N., Los Angeles received its first recorded snowfall, the last U.S.","troops were withdrawn from South Korea, the Tucker Automobile Company folded, and the last 6 remaining veterans of the U.S.","Civil War met in Indianapolis.","In Sports, boxing legend Joe Louis retired.","George Orwell published his now-classic book, "Nineteen Eighty Four." Salvador Dali painted "The Madonna of Port Ligat." Olivia de Havilland starred in "The Heiress," and Cary Grant appeared in "I was a Male War Bride." In music, top hit records include "Deep in the Heart of Texas" by Bing Crosby and Woody Herman, "Mule Train" by Tennessee Ernie Ford, and "You're Breaking My Heart" by the Ink Spots.","Man's Best Friend 1919","Oil on Canvas, 24" x 36"","View Closeup 1","View Closeup 2","Embarrassed to pose for a portrait alone, Cyril agreed to have his photo taken only if Spencer, his Spaniel, could pose with him.","1919 found President Woodrow Wilson in the White House, although he suffered a heart attack followed by a stroke.","The Treaty of Versailles was signed and the League of Nations founded.","This was also the birthday of the Grand Canyon National Park, opened this year by Congress.","The Prohibition Act became law.","1919 also marks the year of the Steel Strike.","Fathers Day was first celebrated this year.","Postage stamps dropped from 3 cents to 2 cents, wireless telephone was developed which would allow pilots to talk in-flight, the very first U.S.","air passenger service began, Radio Corporation America (RCA) was formed, Edsel Ford succeeded his father Henry as head of Ford Motor Company, and Babe ruth hit a record 29 home runs - and was sold to the New York Yankees.","Born in this year were Comedian Red Buttons, Singers Tennessee Ernie Ford and Nat King Cole, Publisher Malcom Forbes (Forbes Magazine), and Actor Ricardo Montalban.","It also saw the death of former President Theodore Roosevelt at the age of 60.","Booth Tarkington won the Pulitzer Prize for the book "The Magnificent Ambersons." In film, Charlie Chaplin starred in "Sunnyside," Mary Pickford appeared in "Daddy Long Legs," and Cecil B.","DeMille directed "The Admirable Crichton." In music, Enrico Caruso recorded "Salvator Rosa - Mia piccireila," Campbell and Burr recorded "After You've Gone," and Arthur Fields released "How Ya Gonna Keep 'Em Down on the Farm (After They've Seen Paree)."","Edward K. Hudson Oil Painting Gallery","http://www.edwardkhudson.com/gallery1.htm","22.3","9 Jan 2006"); Page[6]=new Array("Welcome...","Edward has been oil painting for over 20 years.","His painting allows him to combine his love of history with his love of art.","Edward's pieces touch a part in all of us and our past.","Not content to create stiff and static "posed" images and portraits, his work is reminiscent of a snapshot in time, taken by a friend or family member - a moment with human interaction, emotion and feeling.","His images draw the viewer into the scene and into another time so that the subject becomes not so much something to look at, as someone to interact and participate with.","In his images we can all see an old friend, a parent, an aunt, an uncle or a child that we know and remember from our own past.","Edward spent most of the last twenty years working in graphics-related fields, mostly computer graphics, while creating 2D and 3D animation for the military as well as for computer, console and mobile game companies.","He painted mainly for his pleasure during this time.","Only recently, he decided to change paths, earning his Bachelors in Information Technology, Masters in Business Administration, Masters in Marketing, and starting his PhD in Leadership, in order to shift his function to a managerial capacity in the workplace so that he may concentrate all of his artistic focus solely on his oil painting and thus, pursue his painting career full force.","Please enjoy this site, return often to see new paintings which are being posted on a regular basis, and feel free to email or visit Edward's blog.","Thank you for stopping by.","Edward K. Hudson Oil Painter - Home Page","http://www.edwardkhudson.com/index.html","7.9","9 Jan 2006"); Page[7]=new Array("WebSite Links and Searches","Here are a few sites I recommend.","Hotsheet","Comprehensive web directory all on one page.","The Connection Point","Professional Web design, ecommerce and hosting.","Riel 3D","Fantastic high end 3d artist.","Sea Breeze Art Gallery","Great Gallery and home of my Ventura, CA studio.","California Historical Society","Home of the California Historical Society.","AnyTitleTextURLLinks","AnyAllDefaultExactName","AnyAllTitleExactBooleanlinks","WebDirectoryNewsReviewedPhotos","AnyArtsBusinessComputersGamesHealthHomeKidsNewsRecreationReferenceRegionalScienceShoppingSocietySportsWorldAdult","Edward K. Hudson Oil Painter - Home Page","http://www.edwardkhudson.com/links.htm","10.2","9 Jan 2006"); Page[8]=new Array("Art News...","Edward K. Hudson Art News","http://www.edwardkhudson.com/news.htm","6","9 Jan 2006"); Page[9]=new Array("" title="Next" class="button-popups" onmouseover="this.className='buttonon-popups'" onmouseout="this.className='button-popups'"","Image Slideshow","http://www.edwardkhudson.com/slideshow.htm","7.7","9 Jan 2006"); Page[10]=new Array("Artist's Statement","I have always been fascinated with touching the past.","From a very young age, I was aware that my parents, grandparents, and some of their older relations had arrived at the point at which I met them from a trip through an older time which was no longer accessible physically, yet which still existed inside them in their thoughts and in their experiences.","I had been told stories about relatives who had lived sixty years before my birth.","But those times were not lost - they were very much alive and real inside of the people who were closest to me.","It saddens me that the old becomes the unwanted, the disposable, the “old-fashioned,” the unused, the forgotten.","There is a strong tendency to value only that which seems to be new, stylish, trendy, hip, chic, and popular, and to discredit that which seems old and worn – to desire to discard it, replace it, forget it.","Yet, had it not been for that which seems so useless and archaic to many, none of us would be here today! Those times, events, ideas, inventions, fashions, buildings, vehicles, machines, devices, activities, wars, styles, attitudes, wishes, desires, and dreams of those many, many people who came before were just as real and tangible to them as ours are to us! In my art, I wish to capture and celebrate those times and those people.","By its very nature and history, painting in oil brings me in touch with the past.","Large canvases allow me the physical space to capture and express, not a static scene or re-creation, but an emotion, a feeling, and motion: the soul of the people whom I wish to somehow bring into my own time.","In a way, I want my images to resemble tinted black and white photos, in order to accent the different time which they represent.","To that end, I paint large dark areas in black or sepia, and use somewhat muted colors within.","My priorities are to 1) capture the time and place, 2) capture the emotion, 3) capture the people and likenesses, 4) capture the action, and 5) make these accessible to the viewer.","I paint loosely and deliberately allow the brushstrokes to show through as I believe that a great deal of feeling and emotion can be expressed this way.","Smooth, clean, photographic brushstrokes can lose a great deal of emotion.","I feel that if I wanted to show the image thus, I might as well display a photograph.","Above all, I want the very human side of the subjects to come through.","I like painting images that bring out good feelings in the viewer; there is already plenty of unpleasant or even ugly reality in the world without my adding to it.","I have recently engaged in a great deal of research through books, reading, images, and sketches, and I plan to create a great many more images over the next several months.","Sometimes the subjects are from photographs of my own family.","Other times it may be photographs of strangers, sketches from life, and pencil or photographic studies of items such as antiques and artifacts which add a sense of everyday life and reality to the scenes.","Whatever the origin, it is a window into the lives, emotions, and souls of those long-gone that I wish to express and share.","Edward K. Hudson Artist's Statement","http://www.edwardkhudson.com/statement.htm","7.8","9 Jan 2006"); Page[11]=new Array("Studio","Welcome to the Studio.","Edward works in two studios: his main location within the Sea Breeze Art Gallery in Ventura, California - a gallery with attached artist studio spaces and artist community - and a smaller location in Westlake, California.","The greatest challenges in location are, first, achieving proper lighting, second, adequate space in which to work on very large pieces, and third, storage for both the raw materials as well as final pieces.","The Ventura Studio relies mostly on artificial light although a large overhead skylight is present.","The Westlake Studio also depends on artificial light to a point, but it also provides a wide bank of North facing windows.","Studio: Ventura, California","Studio: Westlake, California","Edward K. Hudson Studio","http://www.edwardkhudson.com/studio.htm","6.7","9 Jan 2006"); Page[12]=new Array("Work in Process","At any given time I may have any number of pieces in process.","The larger the current piece, the more likely I'll work exclusively on that for a while.","As more work develops, I'll keep this section updated and add the newer pieces.","Work in Process, Untitled, 1/2006","Oil on Canvas, 60 " x 72"","View Closeup 1","View Closeup 2","Edward K. 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