I have enjoyed art most of my life, and want to get better at it. I have worked places where art didn't really fit in, so "EdwardsOtherSide" is a reference to how this is a side of my life I haven't shared with a lot of people. I live in Vienna Virginia, USA.
Favourite Visual Artist
Escher, Nagel, Klimt, Mucha, Boris Vallejo... it is hard to pick one.
Favourite Books
The Disc World series, The Night Watch series, "The Book of Five Rings", "The Magister Ludi"
Favourite Writers
Terry Pratchett, Sergei Lukyanenko, Miyamoto Musashi, Hermann Hesse
Tools of the Trade
Pencils, watercolor pencils, graphite crayons, and my camera
Other Interests
Watches, swords, shooting, fitness, history, reading, and most important - the highest art form - food.
If you won the big lottery, hundreds of millions of dollars, what would you do? "I wouldn't tell anyone, but there would be signs..." sort of thing. For me, after taking care of my debts & my kids (less than a tenth of the money), the Till Eulenspiegel foundation. The purpose of the Till Eulenspiegel foundation would be to oppose authoritarianism and terrorism by means of humor. Provide grants and fund security for comedians and others, including artists, who use comedy or humor to undermine terrorist groups and authoritarians. (Possibly an Audi convertible in WWI/WWII "razzle dazzle" camouflage https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dazzle_camouflage. Because why the heck not.)