The Epilepsy Shield Project, Baton Rouge, LA (2026)

All pictures and post on this page can be freely shared and all my awareness paintings can be seen on the project's site www.TheEpilepsyShieldProject.com The goal of this project is to spread awareness of and information about epilepsy with use of my artwork. Sorry, I know that the colors of the paintings are too bright for some people with photosensitive epilepsy. The goal is to use the colorful

imagery to attract the attention of other people. People do not read shirts and other items with one color writing nearly as often as shirts with bright colors that catch the eye, creating awareness. Each painting series has a different theme for the paintings and the subject of the paintings range from very educational to just funny. The pictures and post from the page can be freely shared to help spread awareness and they are available on T-Shirts and other items under the “Shop Now” button at the top of the page.

08/06/2026

sorry, for my lack of output lately. I am getting back on track of getting paintings finished and shared, I have shared two recently. The first part of this year was one problem after another between the house, can and our medical issues.

I have more than five paintings in progress the three I expect to finish first are about Teaching People About Epilepsy with a list of facts on the left side and beliefs on the right, Epilepsy being an Invisible Condition, and on Epileptologists.

If you have a message, you think needs to be put out there for the public to see let me know, if I have done a painting on it I will reply with it for you to share and if not, I can add it to my list of ideas for paintings.

08/04/2026

Painting #8 OUR EPILEPSY COMMUNITY of the Motivational series.

The epilepsy community is really different than most communities for medical conditions because of so many distinct types of seizures, the 160+ Seizure Disorders that fall under the diagnoses of Epilepsy, the 30+ anti-seizure medicines with so many possible side effects on the market and every case of epilepsy being different makes the sharing our experiences and knowledge is extremely helpful to others living with the condition.

Working as an advocate I have been able to help three people find an epileptologist, leading to them being able to have surgery becoming seizure free or greatly reducing the number of seizures they have. I have also had people tell me that sharing my experience of brain surgery being successful, getting me seizure free while still on medicines gave them the confidence to go through with the surgery option, their doctors had given them of which they were afraid.

We can help each other in more ways than we realize just by sharing our own stories. We can also explain the symptoms of each type of seizure to newly diagnosed members of the groups and tell people who are being switched to a new anti-seizure medicine what side effects it causes on us, so they can know what issues to look for like the most well know terrible side effect out there “Keprage”.

Every case of epilepsy is different, we all have different trigger combinations, and we all react differently to each medicine, so the more information we get from others the more chance we have of figuring things out.
I did a painting in this series about The Epilepsy Community being over 65 million people fighting together, but that number has been used for over a decade now while the number of reported cases in the US alone has gone up by at least 400,000 during that time while some websites are still saying only 50 million. We really need a new accurate count of the number of worldwide cases!

05/16/2026

I received my Epilepsy Warriors T-shirt yesterday and it is great. If you would like one they are available in the Printful store under the Epilepsy Recognition series, the 7th one down on the left side.

They are also available in black and the premium shirts also have purple.

The link to the store is under the Shop Now button at the top of the page.

05/07/2026

Painting #8 EPILEPSY WARRIORS of the Epilepsy Recognition Series.
Here is a painting for us to share showing the public just how many of us are out there. According to the Epilepsy Foundation there are 65 million people living with epilepsy around the world, but they have been using that number for over a decade now, so it must be higher than that because during that time the count in the US alone has gone up by at least 400,000.

Instead of saying “one of millions” I did a play off ONE IN A MILLION by saying “one in millions” and I did not want two OFs that close together “ONE OF MILLIONS OF EPILEPSY WARRIORS.”
with the larger warrior to represent the person sharing it and the small warriors in the background to represent the rest of us. I used shading on the shields to make them look angled to deflect a swords strike of to one side or the other deflecting the force and the blade. The ribbons also show a darker shade on the right side because of the angled surface. For the title line I made the lettering look like metal letters with beveled edges riveted on to go with the metal armor theme.

I think this painting will get lots of interesting comments on the shares and with it on the T-shirts I think it will get lots of comments from strangers, spreading awareness out in public.
I think we should create a more accurate count of people living around the world with epilepsy. If you can get a reliable figure of the number of people in your country fighting it then please put it into a comment, so I can start working on the new count. I know the latest count for the United States is 3.44 million, so I am starting the count there.

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