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However, I wanted to restrict myself to painting in only one color, blue. Shades of blue and gray were used as a substitute to the usual “colors” of the feather and ribbon. My studies to lay out the painting showed me that the size of the painting would not be any “standard” dimension. I also wanted to start with a black canvas. So, I purchased black canvas and stretched my own canvas to the dimensions that would better highlight the subject. This was my first attempt to ever use black canvas. The feather has a subtle silhouette or halo of white. The leather strips connecting it were modeled from sowing measuring tape, held in front of a fan. You can see the multiple turns and flips and reversals of the ribbon and even that the ribbons intertwine and split casting shadows on each other. You can also notice that the strips have no thickness and twist and turn often. I entered it into an art show and didn’t win, place, nor did I even get a ribbon. It was very disappointing. A few months later I entered it into an art show at the University of Oklahoma and won first place. I put it on display later and the Chief Justice of the Chickasaw Supreme Court called me and wanted it. I turned her down. She later called back and told me that the Chickasaw Supreme Court promised to hang it in a prominent position, and that this was a huge honor as the only other painting purchased was a priceless tribal treasure. The painting now hangs at the entry doors of the Chickasaw Supreme Court in Ada, Oklahoma. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/659966da504e7645c416867c/7743fe57-a6e2-4c8a-8f20-7f2611a478e1/edger+copy+art+-+feather+12x18+color.jpg Collections - The Feather Collection Sunset Feather, Oil on Canvas (2018) This painting was a bit of a release as I wanted to re-paint a ceremonial feather, but this time in full color. The feather has yellow, reds, browns, blues, and every other color of the rainbow. I wanted to do the ceremonial ribbon different than last time and in this instance I used long strips of white leather. You may note that there are much less twists and turns than the prior painting as leather is much more stiff and has thickness. The strips intertwine in the wind. Once complete, and framed, I stood back and thought it needed something so I used the same colors from the feather to paint an orange Oklahoma sunset. Oklahoma has the most beautiful sunsets. https://www.edgar-art-studio.com/collections-2/project-two-whgpe-4jzp6 monthly 0.5 2024-04-13 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/659966da504e7645c416867c/1923ba98-5822-4e39-b13f-87c5cb31cc17/Edger+Copy+art+30x40+sm.jpg Collections - Prairie Winds Kate and Emma, Oil on Canvas (2020) I wanted to paint something “culturally significant” and document important aspects of Chickasaw life. This painting is inspired by my great grandmother, and my great-great grandmother, who are both Chickasaws. I spent a year photographing Chickasaws, traditional clothing, and plants. Again learning that I need to paint from photographs we went to a Chickasaw Festival where I photographed the “3 sisters” of corn, beans, and pumpkins growing together. The basket is a traditional Chickasaw basket. The dresses are authentic Chickasaw dresses and aprons at the Chickasaw Cultural Museum. Each girl have traditional Chickasaw Beaded Collars. I studied and sketched faces of Chickasaw women full lips, strong cheekbones, black hair with blue highlights, and long eyelashes. My wife served as the lady’s hair model. The little girl’s hair is still relatively short. I studied the faces and found Chickasaw children with large foreheads, small noses, and protruding chins. The mother (Kate) is teaching the little girl to plant seeds. The child (Emma) is talking and pointing as if she is the one doing the teaching. The sky shows light beams down the middle highlighting the center of the sky. In the clouds are the three sacred symbols of the Chickasaws, the Eye of God (in traditional shape), the Wind (painted from the Andromeda galaxy), and the Sun (in the shape of a starburst). https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/659966da504e7645c416867c/e315744c-5f6b-4d38-819b-33a47a4ce824/36x24+001+Trout.jpg Collections - Prairie Winds Rainbow Trout, Oil on Canvas (2016) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/659966da504e7645c416867c/1711649948606-3D8293P4MG2AH2FCNYU1/deer%2Bside.jpg Collections - Prairie Winds Deer Profile, Pen and Ink (1984) This was the first piece of artwork I ever made. It is full of errors, mal-proportioned, etc. (and prints are not for sale). I was a sophomore in high school. It is here to show the starting place. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/659966da504e7645c416867c/347e76bb-8feb-4586-83d2-1ee0ff6e3bea/note+card+03+dear+copy.jpg Collections - Prairie Winds Deer, Pen and Ink (1988) This was the first of a series of pen and ink drawings of wildlife with no backgrounds. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/659966da504e7645c416867c/1711649990561-WW0TMX3IVKRF9ERM7CS4/Note%2Bcard%2B02%2Bsquirrel.jpg Collections - Prairie Winds Squirrel, Pen and Ink (1988) This was one of the series of small pen and ink drawings I finished in this time. Pen and ink can be quite difficult as you cannot erase, and my method is to paint and repaint and correct and refine until i get it right - none of which can be done with pen and ink - once you draw a line it is there forever. The squirrel heard something and is poking his head out of his hole to see what made a noise. I gave the original to my uncle. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/659966da504e7645c416867c/4b05effe-8cd6-43fc-95da-f7da13f9e076/CopyArt+Owl+small.jpg Collections - Prairie Winds Owl in Moonlight, Pencil on Paper (1988) Native Americans typically see Owls as harbingers of doom. Never look them directly in the eye. Some Native legends even say that they are shape shifters. Me, I have always been fascinated by them. They seem wise. Many times I have stayed out late on a hunt or camping trip after dark just to wait and see owls. The soft hoot of a Barn owl or the loud crash of a Great Horned Owl attacking its prey will certainly give you a startle when you are alone in the dark. This is a life sized Great Horned Owl, in only gray, white, and yellow pencil on gray paper. It holds a mouse. The intent is to give a creepy feel. https://www.edgar-art-studio.com/collections-2/project-one-h346n-k6w2j monthly 0.5 2024-04-13 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/659966da504e7645c416867c/69f09eff-c165-4bfb-96f8-840730c50afb/Edger+Copy+Art+Bison+A+v2.jpg Collections - Majestic Bison Field of Buffalo , Oil on Canvas (2018) A friend and I were walking in the “Old German Town” district of Columbus Ohio. The streets are all lit with gas lanterns and one of the buildings was an antique book store. We went in and it was dark and musty. I found a book of western scenery. In it was a photo of highly overexposed bison so that the only thing you could see was their outlines. I was immediately inspired. I went about taking photos of bison and studying outlines of different bison. I drew the painting out full size in pencil and paper. The intent is that the bison merge into the grass in the distance As the herd gets closer to the viewer, the buffalo become more apparent, but not completely separate from the grass. I also wanted to paint "Mount Sheridan," near Meers, Oklahoma, a seldom appreciated yet strikingly beautiful mountain in the Wichitas. So I combined the two subjects. Similar to other reductions, this was painted with only one color, yellow. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/659966da504e7645c416867c/566589cf-20bf-460c-a1be-d78010c3f8d6/Edger+Copy+Art+Bison+B+v2.jpg Collections - Majestic Bison Buffalo in Pasture, Oil on Canvas (2020) This inspiration to this is the “Bison viewing point” in the CNRA near Sulphur, Oklahoma. I drove by this viewing point thousands of times. This is a painting of a location I saw every morning driving to school as a kid. But, I was unsuccessful in getting a good photo of the bison at the viewing point, so I used a photograph of a bull bison, in a wallow, in the Hayden Valley of Yellowstone National Park. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/659966da504e7645c416867c/73bccffb-2a45-4995-b6be-6bb9bd4216fb/Edger+Art+-+Blue+Buffalo+20x36+copy.jpg Collections - Majestic Bison Blue Bison, Oil on Canvas (2022) After struggling to capture the essence of a bison in a prior painting, I decided that from that point on I should always paint from a photograph. I discovered over the years that subtle details are impossible for me to paint from memory, so I wanted to paint from picture as I did for the trout. We have a family friend who raises bison, so in early 2020 I spent an entire windy afternoon (carefully) walking with and through his herd of bison. A full day of photography gave me one photo that was perfect. I then took the photo and converted it to blue by computer software and painted the blue buffalo from my photo. Blowing snow was added along the ground and over his back. His sides blend into the background, and he is overexposed so that one side is white and the other side is black as if there is a spotlight in the wind. I wanted the painting to give the viewer the feeling of being cold and standing in blowing snow. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/659966da504e7645c416867c/f5a0066d-b333-4ee3-8071-208ded961ba3/edger+copy+art+-+bison+in+snow+11x14.jpg Collections - Majestic Bison Brown Bison in Snow, Oil on Canvas (2020) This was the first of the series of bison. I wanted to paint a bison walking toward the viewer. Snow on his back and on his nose, with an abstract background. His front coat is covered in snow with ice stuck to his legs https://www.edgar-art-studio.com/collections-2/the-wild-collection monthly 0.5 2024-04-13 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/659966da504e7645c416867c/1711651960177-7GD8VEJR1MUVV0U2AQSC/Oscelot%2Bcolor.jpg Collections - A Wild Symphony Ocelot, Pencil on Paper (1988) This was another piece of artwork from my ECU art class where I had to “fill up a wall.” I always found Ocelots interesting as they looked part housecat and part leopard. This was another of my attempts to restrict myself to one color, black. I was about 90% complete when I needed a new setting so I went down to the lake and commenced to finish the drawing on a boat dock. Several people were watching me draw and were complimenting my work. One was an art teacher and sat next to me and taught me how to draw the eye. After a while, a canoe full of kids paddled up and started splashing us as a joke. The drawing was soaked and ruined. I took it to the house and dried it for a few days and there were water stains all over it. I thought, why not make the stains more spots? A close look shows that most of the spots on the Ocelot are water stains https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/659966da504e7645c416867c/967ef2ee-bcf6-4f77-9363-d1b1193b295a/36x24+001+Trout.jpg Collections - A Wild Symphony Lower Mountain Fork Rainbow Trout 24"X36" Oil on Canvas Flyfishing on the Lower Mountain Fork River, in Oklahoma, I hiked in about a mile long before daylight. When it became light enough to see I spotted a trout rising and feeding on caddis flies. I had none in my box and was unsuccessful. That evening back at the camp I tied some flies to match what the trout were feeding on. The next morning at daylight I spotted the same fish surfacing. I tied on one of my flies I made the evening before. At the third pass, the trout rose and took my fly. I landed him, laid him on some rocks on the shore, pulled out my camera, and photographed him laying on the rocks with my flyrod and real. I released him back into the river unharmed. I bought the canvas and wanted to use the trout painting as a motivator to paint even while in law school. But, any attempt to finish the painting was unsuccessful as I could not paint backgrounds. The canvas stayed ½ painted in the garage for several years. In 2015 I finally devoted my effort and focus on painting the background. For the first time ever in my art, I painted a background. I spent months painting the rocks and background first before I painted the trout. This was the first time in my entire life that I ever painted a background, and as such is probably my finest work of art. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/659966da504e7645c416867c/d75e7bb4-dcea-4b58-b3f7-8347767d5c6a/note+card+01+water+buffalo+brown+copy.jpg Collections - A Wild Symphony Eastern Cape Buffalo (1988) Marker on paper African Water Buffalo, Marker on Paper (1988) My art professor at East Central University believed I was way too hung up on details. He wanted me to express myself and be more free. He required me to do an entire art show, and fill up a huge gallery wall with only my works and gave me one month to do it. This seemed like an impossible task with my current methods. I took the largest piece of butcher paper that would fit on the art table, the biggest black marker I could find, and some photos of Eastern Cape Buffalo. The entire work was completely uninhibited effort of putting something on paper, fast, and with no option to erase or fine-tune. The work is about four feet by four feet and took less than ten minutes to complete. It is probably my most popular piece of artwork. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/659966da504e7645c416867c/51afd65a-fdf0-4a45-a346-e425885b19a8/CopyArt+Tiger+11x14.jpg Collections - A Wild Symphony Tiger, Pastel on Paper (2012) Even though Norman High School’s mascot was a tiger, it did not have one picture or painting of a tiger in the school. Since there was none, one day i was asked to paint a tiger’s face to be mounted on a homecoming float. That was lost. So, I drew this tiger with pastels so it would have stark color contrast. The tiger work is completely unique as it is leaning out of the frame (unheard of for artwork). The original now hangs in Norman High with prints in the principals’ offices. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/659966da504e7645c416867c/9b8b97b5-e9fe-4d17-80b0-6ec685c292ff/panda.jpg Collections - A Wild Symphony 18X24 Colored Pencil on Paper This was an engagement gift to my finance (if she said yes). I was always fascinated by Pandas and how they moved so slow and softly. After studying panda photographs I drew this panda with brown and pink and light green. The hair is elongated along the edges to make him look more like a soft teddy bear. He is reaching out to pat a bamboo stick. It was intended to convey the feeling of softness and tenderness that I saw in my fiance. Everyone that saw it fell in love with it and a few people simply would not rest until they bought it. To settle the matter, I drew on it “To: Deana, From: Wayne.” Those people are still angry with me about that (and the prints have those words removed). Deana and I have been married now for over 35 years. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/659966da504e7645c416867c/1713748725463-FPSJDYSDDQWBNVL5SB0S/pug%2Bpdf.jpg Collections - A Wild Symphony Shar Pei Puppy (18"X24") Pencil on sepia paper I knew my wife loved bulldogs so right after we were married, I drew her this one. Only after I drew it, she explained that although she appreciated it, I did not draw a bulldog. Shar Pei's are not bulldogs. Regardless, I she likes it and it hangs in our home. The wrinkles and the nose texture fit graphite pencil perfectly. He is a “good boy” setting up proudly.