Artwork by Ed Parker Jr. for Mr. Wedlake's book

(artwork and text from Ed Parker Jr.'s Facebook page, 2-11-09)

This was the latest book cover that was published. It was done for a good friend Lee Wedlake, the author of this book on lessons he had with my father in American Kenpo.

The concept was that I wanted to have my fathers patch presented in a 3 dimensional point of view. Thus bringing his 2D patch to 3D life, as if to imply that this book focuses on a dimension of my father and his art not yet explored.

It was cool, cause I wanted to do a version of his patch like this for years and with this book coming to my art table it allowed me the opportunity to do this concept.

Thanks Lee

A couple of Al Tracy photos

(photos from Al Tracy's Facebook page)

The kenpo creed

(from Mr. Rich Hale's Facebook page)

A number of years ago, a member of the association sent me a very old copy of our Kenpo Creed in both English and Chinese. Not trusting the Chinese writing, I ...asked my wife if she would have one of her co-workers, who happened to be Chinese, interpret the writing for me. 

To be sure he wouldn't just match it to the English version, all I gave him was the Chinese portion of the page. As it came back, it was not exact (of course) but was definitely the Kenpo Creed.

Kenpo creed

A couple of photos of the King and Mr. Parker

Mr. Parker and Mr. Mitchell

You can't tell but that is Jim Mitchell on the ground.

One of a kind portrait

(photo from Joe Rebelo's Facebook page)

One of a kind early portrait drawn by Ed Parker Jr. currently in possession of Joe Rebelo.