Jan S. Gephardt’s Artdog Studio

Jan S. Gephardt’s Artdog Studio

Jan S. Gephardt’s website offers a variety of information about both Jan and Artdog Studio.

Read more about Jan S. Gephardt and her background on her bio page. Jan and sister G. S. Norwood founded Weird Sisters Publishing LLC in 2019. The company is currently going through some tumultuous changes. Read more about this micro-press and see the latest features on The Weird Blog on the company’s website.

Jan S. Gephardt’s XK9 Books

A square image with a variegated background shows the covers of four XK9 books by Jan S. Gephardt. Words next to each cover, L-R top row say, “PREQUEL: ‘The Other Side of Fear,’ cover ©2020 by Lucy A. Synk” and “Book 1: ‘What’s Bred in the Bone,’ cover ©2019 by Jody A. Lee.” L-R lower row: “Book 2: ‘A Bone to Pick,’ cover ©2020 by Jody A. Lee,” and “Book 3: ‘Bone of Contention,’ cover art © by Tom Kidd.” Next to each book is a QR Code that takes readers to the relevant book page on Weird Sisters Publishing.com.
Cover artwork is © Lucy A. Synk, Jody A. Lee, and Tom Kidd, as noted in the design.

Take a look at Jan’s science fiction books here. There’s a growing list of her stories about the super-smart police dogs called XK9s who live with their humans on Rana Habitat Space Station. They not only solve crimes and sniff out bad guys. They access the station-net to file their own reports and talk through their collar-mounted vocalizers to make a case that the humans should consider them uplifted sapient beings.

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Artdog Studio Paper Sculpture

The gallery below features some of Jan’s paper sculpture. Juried into national shows and the subject of multiple one-person shows, Jan’s artwork has traveled from coast to coast and into Canada. She creates both one-of-a-kind original mixed-media paper sculptures and individually crafted limited editions of multiple originals. Jan S. Gephardt’s paper sculpture is featured in her Paper Sculpture Gallery.

This is a montage of some of my recent paper sculpture. The artworks are: Top Row, L-R: “Common Cliff Dragon – Male,” “Gemflower Outburst,” and “Love in the Storm.” On the next row, L-R: “Overcoming Complications,” pair from the “Guardians” series in yellow top mats, “Protector” and “Defender;” and “White Clematis with Dragons.” The lower pair of “Guardians,” in green top mats, are “Fierce” and “Brave.” All artwork is © by Jan S. Gephardt.
A sampler of my paper sculpture. All artwork © Jan S. Gephardt.

The “Artdog Adventures” Blog

Check out these quick links to the most recent posts on her Artdog Adventures blog. See the side menu for other features of Jan S. Gephardt’s website.

  • The background of this header is built from the upper sections of two paintings by Johannes Vermeer, “Soldier with a Laughing Woman” and “Woman Reading a Letter at an Open Window.” Across the middle the headline says, “Vermeer’s Zones of Peace.” See Credits below.
    Vermeer’s Zones of Peace
    Our present day is full of turbulence. But of course there’s nothing new in the world. I think we all might do better if we had our own zones of peace to retreat into from time to time. Don’t you?  Sometimes-strident political divides bedevil our lives and our doomscrolls. Our neighbors, and often we ourselves, live in terror of masked swarms of federal enforcers who sweep in to grab up immigrant and citizen alike, no questions allowed. Our nation’s leaders…

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  • Against a background of prismatic dandelions, the words say, “When you become grateful for small pleasures, your outlook changes and opportunities seem to open up everywhere in your life.” The background is an image licensed from 123rf. The quote is courtesy of Kerri Richardson’s blog post, “Keep the Gratitude Going.”
    The “Gratitude Series”
    The “Gratitude Series” first saw daylight on this blog 10 years ago. Recently I’ve been diving deeply back into the archives of this blog, and finding all kinds of interesting things – but they’re “antiques” from a contemporary point of view. Ten years ago, in 2015 we did havesmartphones. The iPhone had been introduced eight years earlier. But back then, bloggers knew that most people would be reading our posts on desktop computers with what we now consider slothlike modems….

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  • From right to left, the elements in this composite header are 3D mockups of "Bone of Contention" as a fat paperback and on a black ereader; the four-part composite from the end of this blog post, and the 2020 portrait of G. S. Norwood in a cloak with a wizard's staff with her dog Kata (blonde-phase red border collie) on a street in Deep Ellum. The words at the bottom say, "Bone of Contention cover artwork ©2024 by Tom Kidd. Portrait of G. S. Norwood ©2020 by Chaz Kemp. See referenced posts for other image credits."
    One Heck of a Year
    2024 has been one heck of a year. It’s gone by blazingly fast, because I’ve been busier than I could imagine. Major things happened, new avenues opened while others permanently closed. Seems like a good time to stop and take stock. It has been my intention to check back in here every month or so to keep a running tab of updates. But as I moved into the summer months all my best-laid plans got scrambled. For the first eight…

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  • This square image has a variegated background with a tan-edged, variegated rectangle on a layer floating above the background layer. Three square images from the blog post are arranged on the diagonal across the middle. They overlap each other – but not enough that we can’t see what they are. Design by Jan S. Gephardt.
    A Mixed Bag in April
    I had a mixed bag in April, when it comes to posts on The Weird Blog . . . and also when it comes to just about everything else, too. My ongoing book review work continues. However, I prefer to blog about books and share their reviews in themed groups of three to five. I didn’t have neatly themed groups of much of anything in April. Book review topics were only one category of “hodgepodge” in April. I’m also transitioning…

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  • On this multicolored square design the artist has grouped all eight of the covers for the books in the two posts covered in the “Artdog Adventures” Blog’s digest post that summarizes two posts filled with book reviews from The Weird Blog of Weird Sisters Publishing. In the left part of the design she grouped the five covers for the “Old Code” series by Anthony W. Eichenlaub. They are “Grandfather Anonymous,” “Grandfather Ghost,” “Grandfather Guardian,” “Grandfather Zero,” and “Grandfather Crypto.” In the right-hand part of the design are the three graphic books’ covers. They are The Hidden History of Women-Led Slave Revolts,” “The Book Tour,” “Fangs,” and “The Book Tour.” Below the grouped covers, the words say, “Covers Courtesy of Amazon.com.
    More Book Reviews
    I promised to return with more book reviews in March. With my time as crunched as it has been lately, I’ve started creating a monthly review of the posts I ran on The Weird Blog of Weird Sisters Publishing. Yes, it’s an aggregation and not completely original, but I hope you’ll enjoy my “digest” posts in lieu of no posts at all. I Hope You Give Graphic Books a Closer Look I began the month’s posts by highlighting Three Graphic…

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Jan S. Gephardt’s website especially thanks Jody A. Lee, who created the cover paintings for her science fiction novels, What’s Bred in the Bone and A Bone to Pick, and to Tom Kidd, for his cover painting for Bone of Contention. Many thanks also to Lucy A. Synk, for the The Other Side of Fear cover artwork and the painting of XK9 Shady in a play bow.