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Cars & House Portraits
MJL Entwined Art: As professional artists, Michael Lude and Jennifer Lude bring your ideas to life through customized artwork. You will find that we can create anything you can imagine or describe, from custom murals and portraits to something entirely new that you've been thinking about. Check out some of our completed work from satisfied clients.

MJL Entwined Art has had the privilege of creating artwork for Ruoff Home Mortgage & Music Center (https://www.ruoff.com/about-us), ProFed Credit Union (https://profedcu.org/, Columbia City Branch), and many more!

Created custom License plate for vintage Ford Mustang by professional artist Michael Lude

11x15in. 1965 Mustang Illustration by Michael Lude

1965 Mustang with License Plate Art 2019

11x15in. Car portrait illustration by professional artist Michael Lude

9x12in. acrylics House Portrait Painting by professional artist Jennifer Lude

Indiana Home 18x24in color pencils, markers, acrylics 2022

16x20in Acrylics (Pro Fed Credit Union) 2021 Art Commission by professional artists Michael Lude and Jennifer Lude

City Hall 16x20in Acrylics (Pro Fed Credit Union) 2021.jpg

Columbia City IN Courthouse (Pro Fed Credit Union) 2021

Historical Museum - 16x20in Acrylics (Pro Fed Credit Union) 2021.jpg

Kilcrease 16x20in Pencils 2022.jpg

11x14in. on watercolor Paper by professional artist Michael Lude

House Portrait Illustration 2022

Mustang Drawing 11x15in Illustration Paper 2018.jpg

16x20 watercolor painting on canvas by professional artist Michael Lude

11x15in. on illustration paper by professional artist Jennifer Lude

1944-1971
Frank Knox was built at Bath, Maine and was named after Secretary of the Navy Frank Knox. Commissioned in December 1944, she arrived in the western Pacific war zone in mid-June 1945, in time to participate in the final carrier air raids on the Japanese home islands as part of Task Force 38. During the Battle of Okinawa she acted as a radar picket destroyer giving early warnings of incoming air raids. She was present in Tokyo Bay when Japan formally surrendered on 2 September 1945 and remained in the Far East until early February 1946. The ship made additional deployments to the region during the later 1940s and was reclassified as a radar picket destroyer DDR-742, in March 1949.

Frank Knox aground on Pratas Reef, in 1965.
Frank Knox again steamed across the Pacific to take part in hostilities in early July 1950, shortly after the outbreak of the Korean War. During this combat tour, which lasted into 1951, her missions included support of the Inchon invasion, shelling enemy targets ashore and patrolling the Taiwan Straits. Two more Korean War cruises followed in 1952 and 1953, and for the rest of the decade Frank Knox deployed regularly to WestPac for Seventh Fleet service.

In 1960–1961 Frank Knox was modernized under the FRAM II program, which gave her updated radars and other new equipment. She was based in the Far East from late 1961 until mid-1964, then returned home via Australia and the south Pacific. Again deployed in June 1965, she briefly served off Vietnam conducting naval gunfire support and coastal patrol operations. Via Tsoying Naval Base, Taiwan while underway in the South China Sea on 18 July, Frank Knox ran aground on Pratas Reef, and was only freed after a very difficult salvage effort. Though she was badly damaged, and relatively elderly, her command and control capabilities justified an extensive repair job, which was carried out at Yokosuka, Japan, over the next year.

Frank Knox rejoined the active forces in November 1966 and resumed her pattern of nearly all annual Seventh Fleet cruises, frequently taking part in Vietnam combat missions. Redesignated DD-742 at the beginning of 1969, she completed her final deployment in November 1970 and was decommissioned at the end of January 1971.

2017 Indy 500 Racing, pumpkin painting by Michael Lude

2017 Pumpkin Painting Ruoff Home Mortgage Art

2017 Pumpkin Painting Ruoff Home Mortgage Art

2017 Pumpkin Painting Ruoff Home Mortgage Art

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