Craig Snodgrass is a painter, graphic designer but a few years ago, Craig decided to break into the designer toy world with his own Kickstarter-backed action figure, DUP-1, or “Duppy”. Now he makes what he calls SnodBOTs and in addition started a subscription service of his creations called the Bot of the Month Subscription Box Links Craig Snodgrass Website https://www.snodgrassart.com Craig Snodgrass on Instagram https://www.instagram.com/snodgrassart Craig Snodgrass on Facebook https://www.fac...
Jul 18, 2021•49 min•Season 9Ep. 2
Mortimur K is an artist, writer & musician living in Seattle. We talk about his work and how he ended up moving to Seattle on a whim. His photographs also become multimedia pieces and sometimes cross over into the poetry he writes. He reads his poems at story slams and we discuss the fear of performing in public. Check out the conversation as I meet Mortimur K. Links Mortimur K Website https://www.skinnytoothproductions.com Mortimur K on Instagram Art - https://www.instagram.com/mortimurk/ W...
Jul 11, 2021•51 min•Season 9Ep. 9
Cullah is a musician from Milwaukee WI. Every year for the past 15 years Cullah has released an album on his birthday. And this year was no different! We talk about making albums, what he's learned as a musician after a year of the shutdown, creative commons music, and even philosophy books. Links Cullah Website https://www.cullah.com Tom Ray's Art Podcast website - https://www.tomrayswebsite.com...
May 23, 2021•1 hr 10 min•Season 8Ep. 12
Forrest Voedisch is a Jewelry designer here in Madison WI, Forrest along with making and designing jewelry also bought a local jewelry-making studio and started what is now known as Metric Forrest Studio. We talk about how this business does its wholesale products and what it was like to buy a company just a few months before the national quarantine. Links Forrest Voedisch Website https://www.metricforreststudio.com Forrest Voedisch on Instagram https://www.instagram.com/metricforreststudio Forr...
May 16, 2021•59 min•Season 8Ep. 11
Angelica Contreras is an artist here in Madison WI, Angelica is a painter who also includes mixed media into her work exploring the relationships between identity, tradition, and pop culture, incorporating techniques like acrylic, oil, and collage. We talk about why Angelica moved to Madison and how her father collected things and this started the idea of working with mixed media. Links Angelica Contreras Website https://www.angelicacontreras.net Angelica Contreras on Instagram https://www.insta...
May 09, 2021•52 min•Season 8Ep. 10
Ciara Nash is an artist here in Madison WI, She currently has a degree in art therapy and a minor in graphic design. She plans to become a certified art therapist to introduce the therapeutic benefits and positive influences of art. We also talk about how Ciara hosted online paint and sips and has plans to do more classes online. Plus, how she has started booking graphic design work through her Facebook page and has done public work and murals, speaking at these events to share the message behin...
May 02, 2021•43 min•Season 8Ep. 9
Judy Robb is a Wisconsin-based painter who is inspired by history and the stories behind it. Judy's background also includes technology and running a honey business with her husband. Judy also has a lot of interesting stories behind her artistic pursuits including going out west to become a photographer and while working on a documentary about biker culture she met Rusty Dennis who was played by Cher in the movie Mask. Links Judy Robb's Website https://www.judyrobb.com Judy's Honey business http...
Apr 25, 2021•56 min•Season 8Ep. 8
Caroline Lee is a podcaster based in England who in the past few years has started learning illustration and graphic design. I have actually known Caroline and her husband Dave Lee for many years from their podcast The Bugcast. So I was really happy when Caroline had agreed to be on the show to talk about her new venture to learn illustration to expand her career. Plus, it's always nice to talk to them! We discuss all the online drawing prompts and lessons she's been taking and her experience fr...
Apr 18, 2021•59 min•Season 8Ep. 7
Ben Walker-Storey is an Illustrator and a YouTuber who also publishes coloring books and different types of low content books on Amazon. This is the second time I've had Ben on the show. This time I wanted to ask him about a new drawing video series he created called "Let's draw goths". A fun series where he finds old photos of goths in high school and draws pictures of them which he has also turned into one of his coloring books. Links Ben Walker-Storey's website http://benwalkerart.com Ben Wal...
Apr 11, 2021•58 min•Season 8Ep. 6
Scott C. Hamilton is a self-taught illustrator and caricature artist living in Massachusetts. He started his caricature art career while working a comic book booth at a convention. He's been doing live drawing streams on his Twitch channel and is also a member of the National Caricaturist Network. Links Scott C. Hamilton's website http://www.hamiltoons.com Scott C. Hamilton on Facebook https://www.facebook.com/Hamiltoons Scott C. Hamilton on Instagram https://www.instagram.com/hamiltoons Tom Ray...
Apr 04, 2021•53 min•Season 8Ep. 5
Bruce and Vox Henderson are musicians living in Michigan. They have been making music for years. They decided to start vlogging about their process and also run a Facebook group for musicians to talk and share their work. They also just released an album called Sugar Fit. Links Bruce and Vox's website https://www.prejippie.com Bruce and Vox's Facebook group https://www.facebook.com/groups/DIYrockstar Blooming Prejippie on Instagram https://www.instagram.com/bloomingprejippie Bourgeoisie Paper Ja...
Mar 28, 2021•1 hr•Season 8Ep. 4
Raheem Nelson is an artist based in New Haven, CT. Raheem has a BFA in Cartooning and is now working exclusively on my iPad. Raheem has been creating paintings, travel journals, and children's books. Raheem also has found work doing timelapse drawings for companies. Links Raheem Nelson's Website http://www.raheemnelson.com Raheem Nelson on Instagram http://www.instagram.com/raheemnelsonart Tom Ray's Website https://www.tomrayswebsite.com...
Mar 21, 2021•47 min•Season 8Ep. 3
Neal Tse is an artist living in Indiana. He is a Fantasy Illustrator and has done artwork that ranges the realm of science fiction and fantasy genres. Neal also started live-streaming his drawing and painting process on the Twitch video platform. Links Neal Tse's Website https://nealtse.com Neal Tse on Twitch https://www.twitch.tv/nealtse Neal Tse on Instagram https://www.instagram.com/nealtse Tom Ray's Podcast Website - https://www.tomrayswebsite.com Podcast Music by my band Lorenzo's Music , l...
Mar 14, 2021•48 min•Season 8Ep. 2
Shannon Wang is an artist living in Maryland. After college Shannon worked for the Discovery Channel making larger-than-life window displays and later started a business called Shop 53, an all women run Tattoo & Art Studio. And during the shutdown, this past year became obsessed with drawing portraits inspired by an app called sktchy. Links Shannon Wang's Website http://shannonwang.com Shop 53 Tattoo & Art Studio website https://www.shop53tattoostudio.com Shannon Wang on Instagram https:...
Mar 07, 2021•52 min•Season 8Ep. 1
Jeaux Janovsky is a cartoonist living out in California. He is a person I have known online for maybe 15 years but we've never actually met... Until now! He has worked with legendary animator Ralph Bakshi, Fred Seibert of Frederator Studios, and cartoonist Gene Deitch. He also recently did some work for the Netflix show Nailed it! He is also currently working on a new comic called Tuna Tulip in the style of old Harvey comics. Links Jeaux Janovsky on Instagram https://www.instagram.com/jeauxj Pod...
Jan 24, 2021•1 hr 11 min•Season 7Ep. 17
Mike Lloyd is an animator and artist living out in California. He currently makes promotional animation and more for his day job but he has also done animation shorts for comedians and also for the Netflix documentary "Behind the curve" a film about theorists who defend the belief that the Earth is flat. Links Mike Lloyd's website https://likemoyd.com Mike Lloyd on Instagram https://www.instagram.com/mikelloydart Tom Ray's Art Podcast website https://www.tomrayswebsite.com...
Jan 17, 2021•56 min•Season 7Ep. 16
One of my favorite music sites is opening again, the Free Music Archive ! I talk with Hessel van Oorschot from the Netherlands who's company Tribe of Noise bought the site after it was shut down a few years ago. We talk about his plans for the relaunch of this site. But we also talk about the future of art and music on the internet. How different organizations like Coil and Grant for the Web are trying to find ways to help creators, artists, and musicians build their work outside of an ad-based ...
Jan 10, 2021•1 hr 3 min•Season 7Ep. 15
Sean Chappell returns to the show to tell me about how life has been going since the last time we talked and he had just quit his job to pursue his art career full-time. Sean is an Airbrush artist from Canada and has learned a lot from his experience and even switches gears a bit after starting a Kickstarter campaign to create a table-top game he invented called Honey Bomb! Links Sean Chappell's artwork website Red Fracture https://redfracture.com Honey Bomb by Ramstar Games http://ramstargames....
Jan 03, 2021•59 min•Season 7Ep. 14
Awesomeness Studios is the name Marlene S. uses for all the webcomics and drawings she makes online. Awesomeness Studios has created several different series and story ideas on the webcomics website Tapas.io. We talk about how she got started, how she came up with all of her comic ideas and how she would like to go to school for art, comics, and animation. Awesomeness Studios Doing Fine, Supine Webcomic on Tapas https://tapas.io/series/Doing-Fine-Supine Awesomeness Studios on Instagram https://w...
Dec 27, 2020•51 min•Season 7Ep. 13
Thann Clark is a photographer who lives in California who not only does personal artistic photos but found a way to do it professionally for an auction house. He takes pictures of older items that they sell but also gets the chance to photograph crazy Hollywood studio memorabilia! Links Thann Clark - Website https://www.thannclark.com Thann Clark on Instagram https://www.instagram.com/thann_clark/ Support the show! Check out the vintage pop-culture items available in my eBay Store https://ebay.t...
Dec 20, 2020•1 hr 6 min•Season 7Ep. 12
Mark Piotrowski is an artist in Michigan who has been painting public works since high school. He also creates his own personal work painting on large custom cut aluminum sheets. Recently he's turned all of this into a business called MARKed ARTs that he runs when his teaching position is on summer vacation. Mark Piotrowski on Facebook https://www.facebook.com/markedarts Mark Piotrowski on Instagram https://www.instagram.com/markedart Mark Piotrowski on Ello https://ello.co/markedarts Support th...
Dec 13, 2020•55 min•Season 7Ep. 11
Jessie Taylor is a painter living in New Jersey who also hosts a podcast called Dream a little dream. We talk about her artwork and how she manages to carve out time to pursue her passions while working a full-time job. Links Jessie Taylor's website - https://www.jessietaylorpaints.com/ Jessie Taylor on Instagram - https://www.instagram.com/jessietaylorpaints Tom Ray's Art Podcast Website - https://www.tomrayswebsite.com...
Dec 06, 2020•44 min•Season 7Ep. 10
Angela Puerta is a Colombian singer-songwriter and guitarist based in Madison. We talk about music, making videos and about how she also works with city planning and trying to bring a more diverse culture to music venues and festivals. Angela Puerta music website https://www.angelapuertamusic.com Support the show! Check out the vintage pop-culture items available in my eBay Store https://ebay.to/2vMYStC Podcast Music by my band Lorenzo's Music , listen on Spotify https://spoti.fi/2JJF39Q...
Nov 29, 2020•1 hr•Season 7Ep. 9
Mr. Hydde is a painter based in Canada in the greater Toronto area. He tells me how he went to Japan and while there got the chance to meet artists in the field of printmaking. He's done gallery shows and painted murals in different cities. He was inspired by Jean-Michel Basquiat and from that inspiration created a style he calls Low Brow. We also talk about why he goes by the name Mr. Hydde. Mr. Hydde on Instagram https://www.instagram.com/mrhydde_artist Mr. Hydde website https://mrhydde.com Su...
Nov 26, 2020•52 min•Season 7Ep. 8
Lynda Edwards is a freelance artist who not only paints but has created an art school in the community where she lives. We talk about the interesting background of her family, her interest in expressing the history of things in her paintings and taking her art school teaching online. Lynda Edwards on Instagram https://www.instagram.com/lyndaedwardsart Lynda Edwards website http://artandasanas.com Support the show! Check out the vintage pop-culture items available in my eBay Store https://ebay.to...
Nov 15, 2020•48 min•Season 7Ep. 7
John Hazard & Lisa Burdige are a couple that creates the autobiographical webcomic Background Noise Comic. John spent over a decade working at Nickelodeon where he provided game design, online animation and avatar character creation for the brand website. Lisa has published short fiction, essays, and plays. She also works for agencies and has developed award-winning ideas and content strategy for top brands. We talk about creating their comics, promoting it, the experiences they've had since...
Nov 01, 2020•54 min•Season 7Ep. 5
Sophia Voelker is an artist here in Madison who is a painter but also works with mixed media using alternate material, such as joint compound, paper products, cement and layered gesso texturing in her artwork. Sophia works online under the name Black butterfly Studio . We talk about how she came to live in Madison and the process of some of the different kinds of mixed media pieces she has made. Sophia's Links Black Butterfly Studio Website - https://www.blackbutterflystudio.com Black Butterfly ...
Oct 25, 2020•46 min•Season 7Ep. 4
René Gauthreaux has been creating autobiographical comics on Instagram this past year. But before that, he had gone out and tried a number of different things including starting a music zine and traveling to another town to break into the comic business. But there were things that stopped him along the way. He tells me the story about how it took really breaking down his fear of rejection to feel happy about the art he decided to make. Links René Gauthreaux on Instagram: https://www.instagram.co...
Oct 18, 2020•55 min•Season 7Ep. 3
Henrique Nardi is a Graphic Designer & Type Educator. I got the chance to meet Henrique while he was working on the Madison mural that was recently completed on Monroe street with another local artist Triangulador here in town. Since they were working I didn't really get a chance to talk too long with Henrique, so I thought why not have him on the podcast! We talk about other murals that he's worked on, fonts & typography as an art form, and his recent work on translating his favorite ba...
Oct 11, 2020•49 min•Season 7Ep. 2
Scott Pyburn is a person I actually met before on a previous season of the podcast . He was traveling with the Mighty-Con comic-book circuit. While drawing at his booth and selling original artwork and custom drawings he saw that toys were really a big draw at these conventions. After everything shut down this year and the conventions all closed he decided to try something he realized he was passionate about all along, making his own custom action figures under the brand Toyzaholiks . Toyzaholik...
Oct 04, 2020•1 hr 3 min•Season 7Ep. 1
