ray's art blog

3.10.07

Boston's Weekly Dig! Fall Dining Guide! Oh Happy day!

http://www.weeklydig.com/9-40-10-03-07-10-10-07 and and and... they made a poster you can purchase~ http://www.weeklydig.com/blogs/e-t/more-dining-fun Check it out!

29.9.07

#6 End my Student Loans Please

Wheeee! Number 6! Viking and Vikingette. Acrylic. Primed board. I love this painting. It is part of a two part viking series of which I loved painting. Shall place the second part of this series up on ebay next week. Oh yes, I think I shall.

http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=190157998777

auction ends : Oct-06-07 16:38:32 PDT

28.9.07

paintings for my mum

Paintings for my mum. :) Gave these to her awhile ago, just realized I never posted it here. :) She likes trees and castles.

22.9.07

#5 End my student loans

Io the Heifer Maiden painting from back in the college days. This eventually turned into the mini comic of the same name. Oh yeah, got like 10-15 little copies of that mini. If anyone wants one, just drop me an e-mail and I'll send ye one.

http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=190155674644
Auction ends Sep-29-07 14:09:42 PDT

21.9.07

little heart of mine, you are better off somewhere else to grow

Was playing around in flash with face shapes and hair styles and made this cute little guy. I wish I could say I had the idea before wacom pen hit tablet.. but it just kinda evolved into a little sad concept sketch. Super quick flash sketch. :) These are fun.

selected angry sketches from my todo notebook

Hehe. I particularly like the last one where i have forks in my eyes. hehe.

17.9.07

#4 end my student loans

http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=190153765552

Yay! Up to Ebay adventure #4. This is a great little painting. Did this in college for an assignment for 'do whatever you want for a promotional piece'. It totally reflects my favorite colors. Found an awesome frame for it too. :)

14.9.07

luck dragon and the spartan looking guy

photoshop/flash sketch. I wonder what a good command for a luck dragon would be.

9.9.07

end my student loans #3

Here we have the third acrylic painting in this ebay venture. Perfectly angsty in every way. :) I've always been fond of this painting, it reflects a certain level of frustration.
Coolest thing about this painting, only used four tubes of paint in creating it. A red for almost everything, a yellow and white for highlights and blue for making some dark spots and the cage. Painted this awhile ago.. I was participating in a lot of figure drawing at the time. There exist a bunch of paintings made about this time with nude figures in them. Haha. Many more figurative paintings like this to come. I'm sure. 12 by 12 inches on canvas. :) Ebay auction to be found here.
Auction ends Sept-16-07 17:19:45 PDT.

word girl party photos

Here are some photos from the WordGirl Premiere party!
We had this awesome wall of characters. Here I am standing in front of the extra of me (green shirt up and to the right!) with my old roommate Nichole (nicholekelly.com)

Also here is a picture of me sitting by my desk with all my desk flare. Yup! That's the guy from reboot!

We had some a serious rice crispy bake off. You can see some of the variety of flavors here. Peanutbutter and jelly, espresso caramel, kid killer marshmallow peeps, chocolate frosted, apple cinnamon.... it was nuts. The very talented Lindsay Fisher was face painting and creating arm murals. I got a chupacabra chasing a goat.

i have worked very hard for my little slice of nothing

I got home from work on Friday and promptly made this in flash/photoshop very excitedly to express a thought that permeated my week. My birthday is coming up. Around 8am Saturday morning I exclaimed to my mum, "Mum.. Mum.. Look what I drew!!" She didn't seem impressed. She glared at me and said "why don't you paint be grateful for what you have". Hahahaha.

4.9.07

a doodle for this evening

found myself procrastinating a bit. haha. enjoy.

3.9.07

end my student loans #2

New painting up the ebay guys! Wiii!

This is a fitting painting to be #2 on my ebay venture as it is lovingly labeled as 'mr satyr why did i go to college?' or 'mr satyr for this i went to college?'. I could never decide which was more fitting. But this painting has a little story. This was an acrylic painting I did after work about a year ago. At this time i was working in oil painting restoration, which was a really awesome job.. but..... Going to work day in and day out, not having a car, endless streams of bills, and so began a feeling deep down in my gut. A feeling I think everyone knows. A dark grey spot kinda nagging, kinda restless, kinda worrisome, kinda lonesome, kinda wanting more, kinda expecting something. I was living out of my parents attic, was eating nothing but peanut butter and jelly. I've got the degree I always wanted, I can paint exactly how I've always wanted!.. but I was too busy running around making ends meet to paint. That can make someone feel very trapped. Not learning anything new. Stagnating. Thoughts running wild. Confused. Should be somewhere else, but don't know where that is exactly. So much going on. It was the end of the day. I wanted to paint. I painted this. :)

http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=190149108671

request 115 - novasette fanart

Fanart request for my friend Zack from novasette.com and lifemetercomics.com :)

word girl premiere!

Everyone!!!!
!
Wii~ The premiere date for the show that I work on is upon us! Today at 4pm on PBS and then again on Friday at 4pm on PBS if you can.. tune in and check it out! Yayyyy!!!!! I'm totally listed as character design in the credits!

here is the word girl website!
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29.8.07

executioner flash sketch

26.8.07

End my student loans

Okay! Its official.

Started the weekend painting auction venture which I mentioned earlier. Here it is : I vow to set one new painting up on ebay once a weekend until i'm totally out of paintings (hah.. like that would ever happen!) or my student loans are done with. These aren't crappy paintings either! I love every single one but they aren't doing any good sitting around in the basement. Actually I've got this gut feeling that if I don't spread them far and wide some tragic fire will consume them and they will all vanish in one firy blaze. So, I need to find new homes for them. I've got 17 paintings queued up right now so I'm good for awhile.

About all this...Thoughts?

So, the plan is this. All proceeds from this venture directly go into vast student loans. This also means that I will starting making more traditional paintings.

End my student loans painting #1 - Fish and Boat! http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=190145565566 Auction ends Sep-04-07 18:35:10 PDT Spread the word! Thanks!

ART CARDS! ART CARDS!

Yay for promotional freebies! FREEEEEEEEEEEEEE for the taking! I just uncovered a rather large box of these mini art cards and I would love to get rid of them all! So, if you want a set (4 cards in all, full color double sided) give me an e-mail with an addy and I'll send a set over to ya! Questions? This offer stays open until I've run out or get overwelmed with going to the post office all the time.

Front and back :)

request 114 - monkey at the dentist

Request for : Very scared Monkey is up for a Dentist visit with a Dr. Penguin. that's it.

requester : Vanessa (http://www.slaveprincess.deviantart.com/)

This request came in a little over a week ago, but it jumped way to the front of the list! See.... I'm riddled with nightmares of my teeth falling out. I couldn't stop from working on this. Just the day before yesteday I awoke from a horrid vivid dream of losing a crown (which i don't have!?!?) and watching it turn into a rather large marshmellow before evaporating into nothingness. then i rushed and looked into my dental coverage only to discover that I can only get 50% off one crown ever 5 calendar years. So I wasn't covered! I was petrified. Insurance and dental bills. Scary! Reminds me to floss my teeth, that's forsure. Haha.