Tom Ray

Listen to the podcast on Apple Podcasts | YouTube Podcasts | Spotify | RSS Have you ever wondered what it takes to pivot from one artistic discipline to another?  On the latest episode of the art podcast, I meet painter Jesse Mangerson . Jesse's story begins with aspirations of becoming an illustrator, a dream that took him all the way to an internship at the prestigious New Yorker magazine and into the world of children's book illustration. But as they delved deeper into his craft, Jesse encountered a profound realization: their true passion was not in illustration but in the act of painting itself. Jesse shares how their experiences in illustration ultimately led to the embrace of fine art painting, revealing the meditative joy Jesse finds in direct observational work and the rich textures of oil paint. Jesse discusses the nuances of commissioned paintings, the balance between artistic integrity and client expectations, and the unpredictable path of selling artwork throug...

Listen to the podcast on Apple Podcasts | YouTube Podcasts | Spotify | RSS Painter GG of Green Goodies found purpose and community through art after starting their teaching career. When the pandemic hit, GG turned to TikTok, using live streams to combat loneliness. GG's videos led to a portrait painting project documenting unfiltered stories of life. Links Green Goodies website https://www.greengoodies.art Green Goodies on Instagram https://www.instagram.com/greengoodiesgives Green Goodies on TikTok https://tiktok.com/@green_goodies 📙 Get Tom Ray's webcomic book "Then This Happened... A Diary About Breast Cancer" now on Amazon as an ebook or paperback 📬 Join my email list to get a call out for artists when I'm booking interviews! Join my email list

Listen to the podcast on Apple Podcasts | YouTube Podcasts | Spotify | RSS Visual artist Chelsea Ramirez discusses their delicate, layered drawings and installations using pigments and found objects. After discovering their passion at the New York Studio School, Chelsea has spent the last decade developing her signature style of "radical softness" to subtly resist social constructs. We explore Chelsea's large-scale piece "The White Room," her home studio practice, and upcoming projects expanding her ethereal aesthetic.

Listen to the podcast on Apple Podcasts | Google Podcasts | Spotify | RSS Surrealist pop artist Lindsay Kovnat Davis talks about their evolution from animation to painting and their first major gallery show. Featuring cats and invasive lantern flies, Lindsay brought their art to life with sculptural frames made of wood and foam. After a successful debut, Lindsay plans to do more shows, collaborate on animation, and even make a full-length animated film someday.

Listen to the podcast on Apple Podcasts | Google Podcasts | Spotify | RSS On this podcast episode, painter Pranav Sood stops by again to talk. Pranav was born in Punjab, India, and now lives in Brooklyn, NY. He works primarily with acrylic, gouache, and watercolors both on canvas and paper. Last time we spoke we talked about the inspiration and technique of their work. But this time around we talk about trying new things and how Pranav was inspired to create a whole new series of work based on just a slight change in what they do.

Listen to the podcast on Apple Podcasts | Google Podcasts | Spotify | RSS On this podcast episode, I meet Jordan Baraniecki . Jordan is an artist from Saskatoon, Canada. His ink collage paintings are a mesmerizing blend of intricate detail and three-dimensional aspects, inviting viewers to experience a unique relationship with scale through the use of color, texture, and form. We talk about how Jordan discovered the style and method for the work they create and how they almost gave up on art completely before finding their voice. Links Jordan Baraniecki Website https://www.jordanbaraniecki.com/ Jordan Baraniecki on Instagram https://www.instagram.com/jordanbaraniecki/ 📙 Get my webcomic book "Then This Happened... Going outside again" now on Amazon as an ebook or paperback 📬 Join my email list to get a call out for artists when I'm booking interviews! Join my email list

Listen to the podcast on Apple Podcasts | Google Podcasts | Spotify | RSS On this podcast episode, I meet Debbi Kenote . Debbi is a New York-based artist who creates paintings on their own unique canvases. We talk about how Debbi got started, how they discovered the style they make, and the different opportunities they have had since showing work publicly.

Listen to the podcast on Apple Podcasts | Google Podcasts | Spotify | RSS On this podcast episode, I meet Estefania Velez Rodriguez . Estefania is an American artist born in Mayaguez, Puerto Rico living in New York. Her work often uses abstracted landscapes as well as non-objective visual spaces that are somewhat open field and bright. Estefania experiments with raw pigments, spray materials, oil mediums, and acrylic polymers. Her painting language ruptures visual spaces to open the viewer's receptivity to fleeting spaces, times, and emotional presence. We talk about Estefania's work, getting the word out, and having their art used in different areas and mediums. Links Estefania Velez website https://estefaniavelezart.com Estefania Velez on Instagram https://www.instagram.com/estefaniavelezart 📙 Get my webcomic book "Then This Happened... Going outside again" now on Amazon as an ebook or paperback 📬 Join my email list to get a call out for artists when I'm b...

Listen to the podcast on Apple Podcasts | Google Podcasts | Spotify | RSS On this podcast episode, I meet Sfera Louis . Sfera is a painter living in Brooklyn New York. Sfera describes their paintings as Spherealism and works on several paintings simultaneously. With a background in working with music promotion, Sfera has a solid grassroots method of promoting creative work, which has led to making their own studio home to open mics for creatives and gallery salons! Links Sfera Louis website https://www.sferalouis.com 📙 Get my webcomic book "Then This Happened... Going outside again" now on Amazon as an ebook or paperback 📬 Join my email list to get a call out for artists when I'm booking interviews! Join my email list

Listen to the podcast on Apple Podcasts | Google Podcasts | Spotify | RSS On this podcast episode, I meet Melanie Sartori . Melanie is an artist living here in Madison WI. Melanie is a multidisciplinary, experimental self-taught artist creating abstract and surreal scenes with acrylic, oil and plaster. Melanie started selling artwork publicly in 2018 and one thing that worked was posting it on Facebook Marketplace! Links Melanie Sartori on Etsy Melanie Sartori on Instagram

Listen to the podcast on Apple Podcasts | Google Podcasts | Spotify | RSS On this podcast episode, I meet Peter Schenck . Peter is an artist living in Brooklyn, New York. Their artwork is abstract, with what Peter calls a cartoonish language of his own world of symbols. We talk about how Peter got started and how their paintings have found their way into galleries and more! Links Peter Schenck's website https://www.peterschenck.com Peter Schenck on Instagram http://instagram.com/pbschenck 📙 Get my webcomic book "Then This Happened... Going outside again" now on Amazon as an ebook or paperback 📬 Join my email list to get a call out for artists when I'm booking interviews! Join my email list

Listen to the podcast on Apple Podcasts | Google Podcasts | Spotify | RSS On this podcast episode, I meet Joseph Iorio . Joseph is an artist living in New Jersey. Joseph had pursued art in the past but somehow it got away from him. Then a few years ago he found inspiration again and started painting again and working on getting his pieces out there and even showing them in galleries. We find out how he has been going through the steps to restart his art career. Links Joseph Iorio on Instagram https://www.instagram.com/ioriojoseph 📬 Join my email list to get a call out for artists when I'm booking interviews! Join my email list

Listen to the podcast on Apple Podcasts | Google Podcasts | Spotify | RSS On this podcast episode, I meet Ryan Haugland . Ryan is an artist I know from Instagram who I knew as a musician. But recently Ryan has started painting and I was very interested in the paintings they were posting. So we got together to talk about how this new painting pursuit started and the answer kind of surprised me! Links Ryan Haugland on Instagram https://www.instagram.com/mosswedo Ryan Haugland on Bandcamp https://mosswedo.bandcamp.com/album/north-flowing-rivers 📬 Join my email list to get a call out for artists when I'm booking interviews! Join my email list

Podcast player Listen to the podcast on Apple Podcasts | Google Podcasts | Spotify | RSS On this episode of the podcast, I meet painter, Araceli Zuniga . Araceli who used to live here in Madison is a painter that creates amazing work using a unique mixture of colors and forms. We talk about Araceli's inspiration, and what they've learned since showing their work publicly in 2019. Watch the video You can also watch the video on Spotify . Links Araceli Zuniga Website https://www.sleeplesstransgressor.com Araceli Zuniga on Instagram https://www.instagram.com/thisisnotaraceli 📬 Join my email list to get a call out for artists when I'm booking interviews! Join my email list

Listen to the podcast on Apple Podcasts | Google Podcasts | Spotify | RSS On this episode of the podcast, I meet pop artist and musician Amanda Wirig . Amanda lives in Minnesota and creates acrylic paintings, mixed media pieces, and screen prints that incorporate pops of vivid color that leap off the surface and a dark nostalgia for decades past. Amanda also has recently started a new virtual online gallery to showcase their own art and the works of others. Watch the video You can also watch the video on Spotify . Links Amanda Wirig's website https://amandawirig.com 119 North Weatherly online gallery https://www.119northweatherly.com Amanda Wirig on Instagram http://instagram.com/amandawirig 📬 Join my email list to get a call out for artists when I'm booking interviews! Join my email list

Listen to the podcast on Apple Podcasts | Google Podcasts | Spotify | RSS On this episode of the podcast, I meet painter Krista Allenstein . Krista is an artist here in Wisconsin who paints reimagined old roadsigns on maps they collect. The signs painted sometimes have different messages than the original. We talk about how Krista started out as a costume designer and how they started making paintings and putting their work out into the world. Watch the video Links Krista Allenstein's website https://www.followthesignspaintings.com Krista Allenstein on instagram https://www.instagram.com/kristavallenstein 📬 Join my email list to get a call out for artists when I'm booking interviews! Join my email list

Listen to the podcast on Apple Podcasts | Google Podcasts | Spotify | RSS On this episode of the podcast, I meet painter Pranav Sood . Pranav is an artist living in New York. I had originally seen the paintings Pranav did while they were going to college here in Madison. Pranav works primarily with acrylic, gouache, and watercolors on canvas and paper. What stood out to me were the characters in the painting and the detailed patterns of each piece. We talk about getting gallery showings and promoting works and more! Watch the video Links Pranav Sood's website https://www.pranavsood.art Pranav Sood on Instagram https://www.instagram.com/pranavsoodstudios 📬 Join my email list to get a call out for artists when I'm booking interviews! Join my email list

Listen to the podcast on Apple Podcasts | Google Podcasts | Spotify | RSS On this episode of the podcast, I meet Michael Filippello . Michael is a painter living in Hendersonville Tennessee. Michael paints landscapes and tells me about doing painted illustrations for children's books. Michael also talks about how going through a major surgery has driven him to really move forward with his art career. Watch the video Links Michael Filippello on Facebook https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100064063330900 Michael Filippello on Instagram https://www.instagram.com/artist_mikef_msdt 📬 Join my email list to get a call out for artists when I'm booking interviews! Join my email list

Listen to the podcast on Apple Podcasts | Google Podcasts | Spotify | RSS On this episode of the podcast, I talk with Jake Jensen . Jake is a painter that I met in the first season of the podcast. He lived here in Madison and since we last spoke he had moved out of town to Beaver Dam and found some great artistic opportunities there. We catch up and talk about what Jake's been doing, getting involved in art walk pop-ups, and getting a new studio. Watch the video Links Jake Jensen on Facebook https://www.facebook.com/dada.art.studio.2022 Jake Jensen on Instagram https://www.instagram.com/dada.artstudio 📬 Join my email list to get a call out for artists when I'm booking interviews! Join my email list

Listen to the podcast on   Apple Podcasts  |  Google Podcasts  |  Spotify  |  RSS On this episode of the podcast, I meet Ashley Shaw Adams . Ashley is a Watercolor Artist living in Baraboo Wisconsin. Ashley talks about their beginnings in watercolor and starting a line of hand-painted greeting cards. Then realized that the supply and demand of that was easier said than done! Ashley has been hitting the craft markets and selling on Etsy for the past few years making a whole different range of items featuring watercolor artwork. Links Ashley Shaw Adams on Etsy https://www.etsy.com/shop/shawpawprints Ashley Shaw Adams on Instagram https://www.instagram.com/shawpawprints 📬 Join my email list to get a call out for artists when I'm booking interviews!  http://eepurl.com/g1uUSP Support the show! Check out the vintage pop-culture items available in my eBay Store https://ebay.to/2vMYStC Check out the other things Tom Ray does too! 😊 - Tom Ray's Daily w...