IS FINISHED!

The cast and crew will have a private screening before the first of the year and I will do private screenings over the next year. It will be entered in several film festivals over the next year, and rules and guidelines prevent us from showing it for money or selling DVD’s.

For those of you who can’t remember what the documentary is about, here is a brief synopis:

The Color of Sound – Music Inspires Art was an interactive concert featuring local visual artists and musicians.
 
Four talented Sioux Falls artists, Hope Happeny, Eyob Mergia, Scott Ehrisman & Jamie Scarbrough, created several paintings on canvas while listening to the region’s premier Jazz and Blues Bands — Dakota Jazz Collective & Urban Blues. The five-hour event included three 45-minute sets of unique performance art.

“We have high expectations for this film as a public educational tool,” Sioux Falls musician Jess Christen said.  “The Color of Sound – Music Inspires Art was independently produced by the artists and musicians involved. We are very proud of this aspect.”  “This event exhibited the relationship between visual art and music,” Eyob Mergia said, “and hopefully evoke cultural awareness by presenting the artistic diversity in our community.”

DIRECTOR: Chris Carlblom
Ex. PRODUCER: Scott L. Ehrisman

Dakota Jazz Collective is: Jim Speirs, Chris Janzen, Matt Hackett, John Kelly, and Bobby Gripp
www.jazzsd.com

Urban Blues is: Jess Christen, Fred Epstein,  Dave Fermenich and Derek Snow
www.myspace.com/theurbanblues

Dedicated in memory of Razmik ‘RAZ’ Mkhitarian, Sioux Falls biggest Jazz Fan

Don’t bother leaving a message, I’m not interested.

What ever happened to the good old days when politicians were just liars?

I realized over the weekend that many people who read my blog don’t know my art/media background, or they may just be misinformed. When I first started SOUTH DaCOLA I sent out this initial BIO to the publications I was soliciting:

Hi,

I’m South Dakota cartoonist Scott L. Ehrisman, and I would like to tell you a little bit about myself.

Originally born in Iowa, I grew up on a farm in Eastern South Dakota about five miles West of Milltown on the James River. My mother’s family hails from the Scotland area, where my grandparents worked as farmers and small business owners. My father’s side of the family is from the Wagner area where my great grandfather’s father homesteaded. My roots in South Dakota run deep, not just in agriculture but also in the newspaper and media industry. My late great uncle Marvin Blaha owned and operated The Scotland Journal, The Tyndall Tribune and The Springfield Times. He also owned an advertising supplement called The Rocket that was distributed into 15 weekly newspapers in the area.

After receiving a Associate Degree at Southeast Technical in Graphic Design and printing production I have worked full-time as a designer for almost 15 years in Sioux Falls in various sign and print shops. I have also worked part-time as radio DJ on KWSN & KRRO. I have also maintained a free-lance design business for the past 7 years. Besides graphic design, I am also a political pop artist and painter, and have been a volunteer editorialist for local magazines and newspapers. This is how my interest in editorial cartooning began.

I have been doing political cartoons and illustrations for about a year for various publications, political blogs and websites. I decided that with my deep interest in politics,  current events and art that I would pursue a more serious approach to my cartooning.

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I have always been sort of an ‘experimental’ artist. Not really caring to much about tradition. I have tried my hand at many art forms, and though I will be the first to admit, I’m not an expert at each form, I do like to dabble in them all.

With cartooning I like to take a different approach then others. I always write my cartoons first then use either photo-manipulation or Adobe Illustrator to trace OR draw my toons. The main reason I do my toons that way? Fast and Easy. I believe an editorial cartoon is about a message first, image second. I think some of my simplest (image) toons are the best. I’m not a big fan of messy, busy, wordy cartoons.

Here’s some examples of my other work: