Johnnye Gerhardt

Johnnye's trek into art began in earnest at Northwestern Bell Telephone Co. as a Yellow Pages graphic artist. Next was a position at Custom Typographers as artist, film developer, and designer. Advertising nabbed her after that as graphic artist, copy and television ad writer. A corporation hired her as a graphic artist which developed into supervisor of their media department where she learned video editing, special effects, and production. That eventually led to a position on the Nebraska Film Association board of directors. MISCELLANEOUS: twenty+ stories published, Nebraska Writers Guild board of directors, and Governor's Education Outreach Program as a presenter, actress for Actors, Etc. Ltd. FLUFF: movie script optioned; art show at Joslyn (3rd grade); award for training video; third place win out of 450 stories in the anthology, Misbehaving Nebraskans; published in Voices From the Plains, vol. II, III, and IV; Flashes From the Plains flash fiction, vol. I; and Stories From the Heartland. Deep breath. It's over.

"Miss E" 36 x 36 acrylic. Commissioned. Done for a well-known British producer. He never let his daughter's face be seen. We became friends in a writers' group online. He requested I do a painting from a vacation photo he took. I simplified it. It now hangs in his home in Kent. A friend of his who heads a CGI studio in London is interested in a fantasy/sci-fi script I wrote. And so it goes . . . .
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"Neuroscientist, Retired" oil on canvas.
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"Shabbat" oil on canvas
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"Pebble Beach Gnarly" 14 x 11 acrylic from a rather messy photo I took while staying at the Pebble Beach golf course hotel. The tree, rocks, and sea are real. I removed some untidy dead sticks, etc.
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Phantom Moon - Acrylic on canvas. Part of a photo I took that included the lens anomaly.
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Sentinels - Acrylic on canvas - From a photo a friend took in Ireland. SOLD! Now in possession of a former Smothers Brothers and George Carlin comedy writer.
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First is a portrait of Mohammed Ali a.k.a. Cassius Clay. It is bequeathed to the local Black History Museum. The second is an illustration for an article I co-wrote on Black cowboys. The third came from a sketch as a visiting artist at a mental institution. No, I was not a patient although they thought I should be. The man was rolling marbles around in his hand. He did this every waking moment except when necessity (eating, sleeping, etc.) prevented him from doing so.
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These are the hands of a patient in a mental institution. I was there to do research for an article/story and sketched this man's hands. Evidently, he fingered marbles all day long and got very agitated if anyone took them away. The marbles were from his childhood. I finished the sketch in ink.
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Ink and watercolor - I co-wrote an article about Black cowboys for a newspaper magazine section and did this illustration to accompany it.
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Couldn't get image rotated. Acrylic on canvas. "Schramm Park Overlook."
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Mohammed Ali a.k.a. Cassius Clay - Chalk on gray Strathmore paper.
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"Miss E" 36 x 36 acrylic. Commissioned. Done for a well-known British producer. He never let his daughter's face be seen. We became friends in a writers' group online. He requested I do a painting from a vacation photo he took. I simplified it. It now hangs in his home in Kent. A friend of his who heads a CGI studio in London is interested in a fantasy/sci-fi script I wrote. And so it goes . . . .

"Neuroscientist, Retired" oil on canvas.

"Shabbat" oil on canvas

"Pebble Beach Gnarly" 14 x 11 acrylic from a rather messy photo I took while staying at the Pebble Beach golf course hotel. The tree, rocks, and sea are real. I removed some untidy dead sticks, etc.

Phantom Moon - Acrylic on canvas. Part of a photo I took that included the lens anomaly.

Sentinels - Acrylic on canvas - From a photo a friend took in Ireland. SOLD! Now in possession of a former Smothers Brothers and George Carlin comedy writer.

First is a portrait of Mohammed Ali a.k.a. Cassius Clay. It is bequeathed to the local Black History Museum. The second is an illustration for an article I co-wrote on Black cowboys. The third came from a sketch as a visiting artist at a mental institution. No, I was not a patient although they thought I should be. The man was rolling marbles around in his hand. He did this every waking moment except when necessity (eating, sleeping, etc.) prevented him from doing so.

These are the hands of a patient in a mental institution. I was there to do research for an article/story and sketched this man's hands. Evidently, he fingered marbles all day long and got very agitated if anyone took them away. The marbles were from his childhood. I finished the sketch in ink.

Ink and watercolor - I co-wrote an article about Black cowboys for a newspaper magazine section and did this illustration to accompany it.

Couldn't get image rotated. Acrylic on canvas. "Schramm Park Overlook."

Mohammed Ali a.k.a. Cassius Clay - Chalk on gray Strathmore paper.