Meet Kermit - Kermit Eisenhut - Houston artist, painter

Texas artist Kermit Eisenhut is known for his acrylic paintings featuring playful characters and realistic animal portraits. He creates canvas paintings, designs greeting cards, paints furniture and plates and has been commissioned to paint murals in private residences and public spaces. This web site was created so that the world could learn more about the artist and his work.

For 2008, Kermit is painting a fiberglass cow named “Cowley Cow” honoring the legacy of Dr. Denton Cooley at the Texas Heart Institute where Kermit also donated an original oil pastel. He is a member of the Western-Heritage Committee for the Houston Livestock Show & Rodeo and will paint mustang horses for the 2008 event. To celebrate the rodeo’s anniversary year in 2007, he painted its logo on a 6’ fiberglass cowboy boot which was used as the branding symbol. He was commissioned to paint an additional 14 boots on behalf of corporations and civic groups such as ConocoPhillips, BMC Software, Duke Energy (Spectrum), Sterling Bank and Stewart Stevenson. Also in 2007, Kermit’s entry for the Art Car Parade benefited Big Brothers/Big Sisters for sponsor SweetLeaf Iced Teas based in Austin . Kermit was one of 10 U.S artists to be selected as one of 75 U.S. celebrities to paint a 6’ replica of “Mickey Mouse” that was auctioned at Sotheby’s for charity. For the City of Houston , Kermit painted 9 boots for office of Special Events and for the Fort Worth Junior League, he painted 5 boots. His previous work included fourteen entries for the Houston Cow Parade and he painted a Pegasus for the Dallas Art Council. He was commissioned to paint three canvases for a hospital in Monterrey , Mexico and showed at Stone Gallery in Dallas . He sits on the Advisory Board of the “Pink Ribbons Project,” on the Honorary Board of SNAP, and works with Big Brothers/Big Sisters. Kermit was commissioned to paint a mural at the Louisiana Street SPARK park at the Scholar’s School, and was named Texas Children’s Hospital artist of the year in 2002 for “Making A Mark” and was named one of the 100 Texas-wide artists nominated for the last round of judging for the 2007 Hunting Art Prize and he teaches at the Art League of Houston. He participated in career days at HISD.