ray's art blog

29.6.12

16.5.12

Been thinking about Hayao Miyazaki's movies lately. Mostly thinking that they are stunningly beautiful and engaging.
Howl's Moving Castle is a great one. This movie originated from a well loved series of books by a British author, Dianne Wynne Jones, as it turns out. I should be focusing on freelance, but oh how I love distraction. Made this flash silhouette illustration.

15.5.12

8 bit wedding card

Wedding card for some gamer friends! Even found a way to tie in some retro bit game references! Ghost and Goblins (Story is Happy End), Dragon Quest (Command?) and Ghostbusters (Congraturation) made the final print. I originally thought a Mario Bros. 'The princess is in a different castle' text block varient would be nice, but went a different route in the end. :)

11.4.12

rock climbing girl

my friend jeff and his new gal

last days illustrations

When people at my old job leave, they make these awesome illustration collage posters. Here are my recent submissions.

27.12.11

Sewn Painting for Nichole and tote bags

Lately, I've been making lots of tote bags. Like these in the
attached photos. Most of these either sold in the MassArt holiday sale or became holiday gifts for my family. But one of my friends did not want a tote bag for the holiday, so instead I used all the scraps from sewing to make a collage fabric painting for her.

14.12.11

Happy Monkey Holiday Card for Skeptical Robot!!!

Rebecca Watson over at Skeptical Robot asked me to make a Happy Monkey card for Pharyngula for this year's holiday! Awwesome!!
http://skepchick.org/2011/11/happy-monkey/

You can buy some here!
http://www.skepticalrobot.com/happy-monkey-card-set/

20.10.11

straw that broke the camel's back

4.10.11

Alex and Beb Learn Japanese podcast

PlayHarvest Logo

20.9.11

Wedding Print files

Getting married was a lot of work. I don't recommend it to anyone. ;) Now that it is over with and I have two minutes to rub together I can post all the artwork I made for the day.

lock and cityscape :)

An old roommate asked me to make some spot illustrations for his company.

Graduation cards

My sister and my nephew both graduated college! Here are the illustrations from their cards.

Marji and Johnny's wedding

My friend Marji just got hitched. She had a mice theme for the wedding so I made a card to match.

Darwin tote bag for Skeptical Robot

Charles Darwin tote bag design and one of the alternative designs for Skeptical Robot. You can buy it here!

Keep Security Weird

Cute logo with an armadillo. These guys had this logo for their Austin conference. :)

Skeptics Guide to the Universe Bobbleheads

Here are some bobblehead designs of the Skeptics Guide to the Universe crew that I drew up. Rebecca Watson liked them and even is selling them over at Skeptical Robot in a button set that I put together. My cat Becky even likes them. A couple of images here. Here are the designs. The print file. What the back looks like. Skeptics Guide to the Universe or SGU (not to be confused with Stargate Universe) is a weekly science podcast. They are pretty awesome. Here is the blurb from their site. The Skeptics' Guide to the Universe is produced by SGU Productions, LLC - dedicated to promoting critical thinking, reason, and the public understanding of science through online and other media. The first episode of the SGU podcast went online on May 4th, 2005. It soon became a popular science podcast, and remains one of the most popular science podcasts on iTunes. http://www.theskepticsguide.org Check them out! You can get the buttons here.

Cute cupcake faces

Panda faces with junior mints and upsidedown chocolate chips !

Jon's new app. Hasami shogi.

My husband finished this app awhile ago, but I never got around to getting this post up. I made the icon for him. This game is surprisingly hard. It seems to be a cross between othello and checkers. Hasami shogi is a simplified variant of Japanese chess (shogi). The name translates from the Japanese for 'scissors' or 'crab claw' and 'Japanese chess'.