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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"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.

Johnnye Gerhardt

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