Robert's senior year of high school in the Cheyenne, Wyoming area found her in a painting class, and she soon began studying creative advertising at the University of Colorado, Boulder, where she received, in addition to her degree, a certificate in digital media that covered subjects such as 3D animation and web design. Ecker Band recently earned "Rising Star" honors in a recent international competition. He has five albums released on iTunes.In fact, The C.R. To date, he has earned over 20 industry awards, including Career Country Composer at The Los Angeles Music Awards and a regular "Featured Artist" spotlight on Renegade Radio Nashville. He then turned his attention to music and began a long career as a composer, mostly of Country and Americana music. But he took a forward step and submitted a specially drawn work to The American Association of Certified Public Accountants, looking for a cover for its 1980 "Tax Rules Book." It was quickly accepted for a handsome fee, with a tan background added as black and white drawings, according to an editor at Art News who had been impressed with his works to date, were still out of favor.Įcker, like Roberts, started early with interests in journalism. With limited space in his Manhattan studio apartment, most all of his drawings were stashed in his closet. Upon his military discharge, Ecker, undaunted, continued amassing another two dozen "doodles" even selling one for $50 to a man who made 500 copies and said he would hire grammar school kids to color them with color pencils for sale around Ecker's home area. Most had to be discarded but one, although cut down around the sides, was honored at Central New York's Munson-Williams Proctor Institute and a second Black and White, "Uni," was given to his bride.
Charlie's 'stream of consciousness' style definitely caught my eye."īy the end of his overseas tour of duty, Ecker had completed about 30 what he called his "fancy doodles." Unfortunately, all but two were water-damaged to varying degrees when his belongings were stored at the very bottom of a military cargo ship on its way back to the U.S. "Often," she noted, "I am attracted to art that I would not normally make myself. After seeking his body of work, she immediately expressed interest in teaming with him on a unique collaboration with even more amazing origins. Now, these two are bringing his Black and White free-form "doodles" into the third decade of the new century with color, pizzazz and punch.Įcker, of North Venice, Florida, met Roberts, of Ft. stationed in Korea in his early 20s, bought a small container of India ink, a fine-tipped pen, and some large sheets of heavy-weight bright white poster board as a means of passing the time off-duty when his communications shift ended at midnight.įast forward now to the above mentioned young women from South Florida, a skillful digital artist who is one of the first outside Ecker's immediate family to see what he had accomplished over that long-gone Seventh decade. The color palettes she works with pay homage to the era in which they were first created, a period when the Pop and Psychedelic art movements influenced the culture of the time, replete with hidden images.Ī half a century ago, Ecker, a G.I. From the first drawings, in the "Uni" series, she has gone on to create a color-dripped collection of "Distinctly Dazzling Doodles" that quickly notched an international Academia Arts Foundation blue ribbon right out of the gate. Millennial Jamie Roberts, facing the hardships of navigating a business during the Age of COVID-19, unlocked, by chance, a never-before-seen treasure trove of original 1970s Black and White India ink drawings, sprung from the once-steady hand of recent colon cancer and two stoke survivor Charles Ecker. Venice, FL J-( PR.com)- Perserverance, Skill and Luck With abstract concepts and palettes reminiscent of the Pop Psychedelic art movements, these "Distinctly Dazzling Doodles" begin in one millennium destined to end in another. First conceived as black and white ink drawings in the 1970s by Charles Ecker, Jamie Roberts adds her own modern spin digitally applying bright colors that speak to the era they were first created. Two Florida artists team up on an innovative and colorful new line of award-winning works.
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