Tom Ray's Art Podcast

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/DIYrocks...

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...

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...

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...

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 th...

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....

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...

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 a...

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 We...

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_...

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 Instagr...

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:...

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/2...

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....

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...

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...

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 ma...

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...

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...

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 passi...

From 2010 - 2018 I used to do a show about creative commons and free culture music with a guy named Doug Whitfield called Music Manumit. Years ago we were interviewed on the WFMU podcast Radio Free Culture with Cheyenne Hohman. I found this episode the other day and thought it would be interesting because I talk about my support of creative commons for art and music. Creative Commons - ...

ReVINYLized is an account I've been following on Instagram that makes things out of old records and pop-culture items. I got together with Betty who makes all of these items herself and we talk about what she does and how this all got started. Learn more about ReVINYLized on Instagram @revinylizedmadtown   Music for the podcast " Just in case " by Lorenzo's Music - https://www.lorenzosmusic.c...

American Bandit is a post-hardcore band from Milwaukee WI. I got the chance to talk with them when they came through town to play a show at the High Noon Saloon . I'm a musician myself in the band Lorenzo's Music and I have been making music long before I started this art podcast. One difference about being in a band is it has the advantage of creating as a group. We talk about how working as a gr...

Becky Weber is an artist here in Madison, WI who makes things from Mannequins and also makes horror and music-themed clothing. We sit down at a local coffee shop to talk and I find out that her other obsession is horror based cosplay. Learn more about Becky Weber on Instagram @artsybekka Music for the podcast "Just in case" by Lorenzo's Music - https://www.lorenzosmusic.com