ray's art blog

19.1.09

First Night 2009

Here are some website banner ads I did for Boston's FirstNight. This was such a fun project! Check it out at FirstNight.org.

And here are some process illustrations for the illustration for the 2009 button.

Here is the final button! (I didn't work on the type design.)

15.1.09

4.12.08

The best of both worlds.

This was probably the smartest thing I will ever have thought and I was 8. What I would have given to grow up and be a unicorn-mermaid. But alas, one can be happy with just the memories of running around their neighbor's pool as the rare princess unicorn mermaid, right?

25.10.08

Summer Villians Holiday CD cover

CD cover for my friend Joe's band 'Summer Villians'.

CD for purchase here.

Kelsey's Brithday Card Spots

Spot illustrations for my niece's first birthday invitations. :)

laura's tattoo

Here is a tattoo design I worked on this amazing lady up in Alberta, Canada.

25.8.08

Little Cody Visits the Underworld

27.7.08

cat talk

26.7.08

dino

23.7.08

Chop Chop Sushi Master - for Thom

The lovely Thom May of http://bridgewindsoup.blogspot.com/ recently bequeathed me some acrylic paints before he departed for sunsets over the pacific ocean. Here is a painting for his parting. Maybe abit of thanks for the paints too. I was unaware that he has been painting cats and text lately. We are of similar minds even with a continent separating us. *tears*.

22.7.08

Rock and Art 08

Rock and Art painting for the 2008 summer concert season. http://www.rockandart.org/ Acrylic on 30x30 inch gessoed board. My band for this program was Crosby, Stills and Nash. My amateur photo skills manifested themselves in losing a bit of the color. The richer green blues and lavenders don't seem to be present in the photo. Haha. I like the painting though. It expresses time, a deep appreciating for the beauty around us and strength of will to pursue into the unknown. Here we have a band that's been an influential voice of activism for generations. While known best for antiwar and counterculture themes they also commonly invoke sailing and nautical references. So one can see why I felt compelled to take a voyage approach. :)

4.7.08

past life regression therapist

Hypnosis quackery pseudotherapy as far as I'm concerned.

28.6.08

Waiting in line at AnimeBoston - for Kristina

Back in May one inauspicious Saturday morning my cousin and myself excitedly set out to Boston to attend our first ever anime convention. It warranted to become an entire day of unrestrained unbridled exorbitant anime goodness. Anime Boston. Little did we know one needed to pass the gatekeepers known as registration. One did this by waiting in line. This 'line' meandered through multiple lecture rooms at the Hynes convention center and is the unrivaled winner of long ass lines. For 5 hours we stayed queued, surrounded by one interesting phenomena. Serious cosplayers. Two things occurred to me. 1) We are out of place in our casual attire of sweatshirt and jeans. 2) This is the largest collection of Narutos one could ever expect to see.

Have been working on this a little bit here and there in my free time for over a month now. Flash and a bit of photoshop magic.

19.6.08

zot likes carrots

15.6.08

modelsheet : me

Model sheel turn of a very stylized me character.

13.6.08

Schrödinger's cat

the paradox. it doesn't seem to apply so well from the point of view we live in. quantum level rules don't exactly fit the same. not nice for kitties.

12.6.08

my thoughts follow me wherever i go

trails of thought follow my days.

logical fallacies. genetic mutation. skeptical debates. nihongo tango. fundamental zealotry. mythology. warping views of science. theories for gaps. empowerment and prehistory. rules and bigotry. beliefs. events. causality. collapse. nutritional values. significance.

a curiously interwoven stream, fleeting and floating away at the only constant i know; that of my internal voice.