Print Order Sheet

Here is the new and updated print list for 2018. Just email me at stephenkade@yahoo.com along with your phone number. I will call you to discuss the order and take credit info over the phone. Prints are shipped immediately and usually postage is about 4- 6 dollars in addition to prints. I have the available sizes, 11x 14, 10x 20, and 5x 7, and have various matte colors to choose from.

Space Corp

Did I hear a certain world leader claim he needs a " Space Force" to protect us from ????? Well, I know a guy who thought of that before him.... 16 x 20 acrylic-  prints available

Happy Robot

A walk through a field of flowers would brighten anyone's day, even if you aren't human! 16 x 20 acrylic- prints available

Have box, will travel!

Channeling by childhood, I remembered what it was like when we got new appliances, and then finding the giant empty boxes lying around the house. I quite often made some new and interesting products from those boxes and used my imagination to bring them "to life". 16 x 20 acrylic

Pew Pew Pew

If you have been a boy, or have a young son or grandson, this painting needs no explanation at all. 10 x 20 acrylic prints available

A Walk in the Woods

What boy hasn't walked through the woods, either looking for Bigfoot, or talking to Bigfoot as a cohort along the way to keep you company? 16 x 20 acrylic

Pathway to Success

Here is a rare digital piece I completed several years ago as a point of motivation for my students. Many people (myself included) have issues seeing the entire process of being successful, and get stuck on some of the lower points of the process. I created this piece as a visual of all the steps of the process to remind and motivate those who see it to overcome and continue to the end! Prints available 11 x 17

Down on the Farm

Again, looking to the future, I see a world where we create robots to perform tasks that we no longer want to do. I think eventually farming may continue to be automated to a point where we no longer have much active participation in. Let's wait and see...

Girls of Science

As a parent, I have witnessed the stress of kids having to come up with great science fair projects firsthand. This painting was the first vision I had in my head when my daughter asked for help on her presentation. Sadly, we didn't quite get this result, but maybe next year!

Robot Baseball

As I look to the future, I imagine a world where we switch from watching humans play sports to robots. Why, you ask? Well, rising player salaries, robots are faster, stronger, and smarter than us. Plus the look pretty cool too!

Octopuses Zen Garden

"I'd like to be, under the Sea, in an Octopuses Garden by the sea", were the lyrics by the Beatles. Throughout my life, these words have made it around my head quite a bit, and I started conjuring a picture. Here you have the results of that vision- Thanks Ringo!!

NewPostcard/ Print Sheet

Here dis may new postcard for 2018, and has my best selling prints featured on it. It will be my placeholder for print orders, until I get the new sheet uploaded. Feel free to email me with orders or questions about prints. I ship the same day, and I take all cards over the phone. I also give quantity discounts!

Tiny Aliens

So what if looking to the skies doesn't work to find otherworldly friends? I think if we look within some of natures creatures, we could find things too...

Space Cadet

16 x 20 acrylic- 11 x 14, 5x 7 prints available

Autonomous Birds

These paintings reflect my feelings on how we are treating our environment, and what the ramifications of these actions are. I looked into the future to assume that we may want to use technology to reclaim some of nature's beauty and function of earth's creatures.

Spacation

Spacation series 18 x 24 acrylic on canvas

If you see the post below, you see I have a few disappointments to deal with in regards to getting off our watery third stone from the sun called Earth. I've also wondered why we've never really named our planet yet. We just call it the same thing as what we stand on, the earth. Earth or dirt only makes up less than 20% of the planet, maybe should've called it "Water"instead.....just saying. We named every star, planet and asteroid in the galaxy pretty much, and some of you may even have been gifted with a star named after you! But alas, Earth it is.
Anyway, here is the the continuation of my "Spacation" series. I've moved to the planets now, and will have 4 more paintings coming this year. In the meantime, work on that name thing terrans....

Moon Travel? I'm still waiting...

As a child, I grew up in a great time to believe that there was "more out there" that just the place I stood. The space program was well into play, and the USA led the way! Science fiction really blew up in the late 70's and I was wrapped up in the hype that told that "Yes, you can go to places that've never before explored". Well yea.... I grew up and realized there wouldn't be moving sidewalks, flying cars, or any kind of interstellar shenanigans for me to have. Well, I've been sitting on those disappointments for years now, and I felt a need to bring awareness to these serious issues.  I started to create some "Spacation" illustrations not only to better deal with my disappointments, but to also remind society that this could be the next big thing if a bazillion dollars comes dropping out of the sky. I studied many references of the elegant early 20th century travel posters, and looked at my many books of old science fiction toys and paraphernalia and went to town.

Science plus Art = Awesome!

Autophagy three 8 x 10 acrylic on canvas

Autophagy (from the Greek auto-, "self" and phagein, "to eat") is an intracellular degradation system that delivers cytoplasmic constituents to the lysosome. Despite its simplicity, recent progress has demonstrated that autophagy plays a wide variety of physiological and pathophysiological roles, which are sometimes complex.
I love Science! However... it can be hard to mentally consume the intricate things in play with every action and resulting reaction that happens during each moment all over this busy world in which we live in. The above definition was what I had to work with when I started a series of paintings last year for a professor at the University of Michigan who is an extremely smart man in all things microbiology, but especially autophagy. Simply stated, with this illustration job I had to visually explain and paint what happens when a part of a cell senses and recognizes a negative issue within another part within the cell, it will then quarantine and eventually destroy the infected part, so the larger cell can remain alive. Did I mention that this all happens one million times smaller than a head of a pin? Oh yeah, and it's difficult to "really see" whats happening way down there, so wrap that all up in some paintings sir.......As I stated earlier, I love science, so I asked for as much reference as I could get my hands on and I received a ton of thick journals with very small print and many pages, but NO PHOTOS, just a few basic line drawings. This got my wheels turning a bit, but luckily my patron was not only a global speaker on all things autophagy, he also loves my robot paintings.
Long story short, I designed robots to better explain the three phases. 1. Signal- the cell component recognizes an issue 2. Sequester- the defective cell is surrounded 3. Consume- the component is destroyed. The bottom illustration is a digital painting for the cover of Autophagy, a U of M science journal that talks all things autophagy, written by my robot loving maize and blue science friend!

Bigfoot

Sasquatch 12 x 24 acrylic on canvas
Growing up in America, no child can escape the mythic tale and the warm fuzzy qualities of the Sasquatch. As a child, I couldn't go into the woods without looking for Bigfoot prints, or wondering if this magnificent creature actually exists. I wanted to portray our friend as a benevolent server of our small warm blooded friends of the forest, so I created a messenger bag for him to fill with nuts and such, so his friends could find something to eat on those cold winter days.

Prologue

Prologue 24 x 48 acrylic on canvas
This piece is from a couple years back, but features a dear friend of mine Trak. He keeps popping up in my work as my go to guy for action and adventure.  If I ever get time (as we all say) I'd love to fulfill my dream of painting a book, or creating an animated project based on this great beast. I wanted to place him in an illustration that could work as a "story starter" so I could better formulate a plan to write him into an exciting adventure to eventually paint. Is this the beginning, middle, or end to the story?  I don't know, but it hangs above my desk everyday to inspire me to get off my keister and finish the book so I can paint it.........