A college professor once asked him about his first assignment, "It's wonderful, but WHY'D YOU PAINT IT SO BIG?"
(right) Artist Pidge Jobst
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"I tend to capture things life-size, and prefer to paint it larger-than-life," he said about his work. Artist, Pidge Jobst, has rendered art on a large scale ever since.
At age seven, it was obvious that Pidge had a rare ability for depicting reality on canvas. Judges at an annual art competition disqualified the young artist with a note sent home to his parents that read his work was obviously traced or copied. Later, at age ten he entered an exhibition contest to enroll in one of the U.S. Fine Art Schools programs for teens. The results were the same. You might remember the bambi, pirate, etc. drawings in the newspapers that solicited artists to draw characters as part of their enrolling process. Again, a letter came back from the art institution saying the work was traced. They weren't however.
At age 22, Pidge enrolled in the Ohio State University, Medical Illustration Program. He was chosen as one of seven entrants accepted into the program that year out of a possible one-hundred applicants. By the time graduation rolled around Pidge had a healthy clientele of physicians. He was active in illustrating H.S. biology and physiology textbooks, posters and atlases, magazine editorials with medical subjects, as well as working in the areas of surgical illustration in the hospital O.R.'s and medicolegal―large-scale art for courtroom use―for attorneys and the criminal/insurance judicial system where it is applied to medicine and medical concerns. Pidge currently does custom hand-painted Wallscapes and Murals in both residential and commercial arenas.
In 1997, Pidge endured a transformation which was never to be expected. He is currently authoring and illustrating a twenty-one Chapter Book, nonfiction narrative about his journey and transcending the human condition due for submission to literary agents and publishing companies in 2011. He is also developing a treatment and pilot screenplay for an adult animated sitcom for primetime television. He currently resides in Topanga, California.
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