Latest Cartooning Podcast Episodes
Sophie Parr: Drawing Paths from Cartography to Viral Artistry
Tom Ray's Art Podcast - April 14, 2024 14:00 - 40 minutes ★★★★★ - 13 ratingsIn this episode of Tom Ray's Art Podcast, we delve into the meticulous world of Sophie Parr, an artist who has mastered the art of hand-drawn maps. Sophie's journey from urban planner to map illustrator is as fascinating as their detailed creations, capturing locations from a bird's-eye view wit...
Evie Woltil Richner: Crafting Stories for Children's Books
Tom Ray's Art Podcast - March 31, 2024 14:00 - 41 minutes ★★★★★ - 13 ratingsIn this episode of Tom Ray's Art Podcast, I meet Evie Woltil Richner, an artist and emerging author with a dream to create children's books. With roots in painting and drawing, Evie's journey has led to picture book illustration. Evie's transition from academia led to pursuing a passion for cre...
Sara Christenson: The Art of Bunny Attack Illustration - Tom Ray's Art Podcast
Tom Ray's Art Podcast - March 17, 2024 14:00 - 32 minutes ★★★★★ - 13 ratingsIn this episode of the Art Podcast, we dive into the quirky and slightly macabre world of Madison-based artist Sara Christenson, of Bunny Attack Illustration. Their pen and ink illustrations of "weird rabbits" blend the adorable with the eerie. Sara's bunnies aren't your typical fluffy creatures...
Maria Amalia: Weaving Stories with Thread and Paper
Tom Ray's Art Podcast - March 03, 2024 15:00 - 53 minutes ★★★★★ - 13 ratingsIn this episode of Tom Ray's Art Podcast, I meet Maria Amalia, a Honduras-born, Madison-based artist with a penchant for community-focused art and a rich history that spans continents and mediums. From aspirations in architecture to graphic design, and finally, to the tactile world of paper maki...
Angel Manuel Lopez: From Comics to 3D The Digital Art Journey
Tom Ray's Art Podcast - February 18, 2024 15:00 - 49 minutes ★★★★★ - 13 ratingsIn this episode of the Art Podcast, I meet Angel Manuel Lopez. Discover how a truck driver's son turned a childhood filled with comic books into a career-spanning movie poster designs for films, branding for comedians, and creating comic book variants that capture the imagination. Angel's journe...
Jesse Mangerson: From Cartoons to Canvases A Painter's Journey
Tom Ray's Art Podcast - February 04, 2024 15:00 - 53 minutes ★★★★★ - 13 ratingsIn this episode of the Art Podcast, I meet Jesse Mangerson, a Madison-based fine art painter and educator with a passion for realism. Jesse shares his artistic evolution from aspiring illustrator, interning at the New Yorker, to a dedicated painter who finds solace in the act of painting itself....
Sylvie Rosenthal: Sculptor Building an Artistic Business Online
Tom Ray's Art Podcast - January 21, 2024 15:00 - 46 minutes ★★★★★ - 13 ratingsIn this episode of the art podcast, we delve into the multifaceted world of Sylvie Rosenthal, a woodworker, sculptor, designer, and educator based in Madison, Wisconsin. Sylvie discusses their journey from New Haven, Connecticut, through various cities, and how a residency led to setting roots i...
GG Green Goodies: Teacher Launches An Art Career
Tom Ray's Art Podcast - January 14, 2024 15:00 - 51 minutes ★★★★★ - 13 ratingsGG 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 project documenting unfiltered stories of life. Green Goodies website https://www....
Kamal X: Photographer Documenting Life's Journey
Tom Ray's Art Podcast - January 07, 2024 15:00 - 39 minutes ★★★★★ - 13 ratingsPhotographer Kamal X shares his journey from posting photos on Instagram to publishing books documenting real-life moments. After losing his best friend to cancer, Kamal began traveling the world and using his camera as an outlet. His work evolved into a quest to find answers through investigati...
I take a lot of marketing couses
Tom Ray's Art Podcast - December 31, 2023 15:28 - 18 minutes ★★★★★ - 13 ratingsThis is an experimental bonus episode! Since it's the holidays I wanted to wait until they were over to post the next artist interview. So I thought I would try a little experiment. I take a lot of marketing courses. And to tell you the truth they all teach the same thing. But one that I took ta...
Chelsea Ramirez: Delicate Artistry
Tom Ray's Art Podcast - December 17, 2023 15:24 - 40 minutes ★★★★★ - 13 ratingsVisual 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 soci...
Pat Henzy: An Illustrator Who Turned Instagram into a Career
Tom Ray's Art Podcast - December 10, 2023 15:09 - 43 minutes ★★★★★ - 13 ratingsPat Henzy has been creating art since he was young, covering his walls with drawings and finding inspiration in the artistic films of the 80s and 90s. While art remained a hobby for years, Pat eventually started posting illustrations on Instagram. By tagging breweries in these beer-inspired post...
Lindsay Kovnat Davis: A Painter's Journey from Animation to Gallery Walls
Tom Ray's Art Podcast - December 03, 2023 15:00 - 44 minutes ★★★★★ - 13 ratingsSurrealist 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...
Jordan Baraniecki: 3D Collage Painter
Tom Ray's Art Podcast - August 28, 2023 04:20 - 47 minutes ★★★★★ - 13 ratingsOn 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, a...
Kate Rusek: Sculptor
Tom Ray's Art Podcast - August 20, 2023 14:15 - 44 minutes ★★★★★ - 13 ratingsOn this podcast episode, I meet Kate Rusek. Kate is a sculptor from New York currently working in Montana. Kate Rusek assembles highly tactile sculptures transmuting these themes into abundant maximalism. We talk about Kate's current project they are doing in Montana, other works they've created...
Angela Cappetta: Photographer
Tom Ray's Art Podcast - August 13, 2023 14:30 - 28 minutes ★★★★★ - 13 ratingsOn this podcast episode, I meet Angela Cappetta. Angela is a photographer living in Manhattan. Angela's creative work has appeared on art blogs, in media as diverse as film, television, and thriving rights-managed collections like ImageSource. Angela's shooting philosophy offers a unique blend o...
Amra Causevic: Mixed Media Artist
Tom Ray's Art Podcast - August 06, 2023 14:08 - 38 minutes ★★★★★ - 13 ratingsOn this podcast episode, I meet Amra Causevic. Amra is an artist living in New York. Amra creates their work in a very unique way, the work includes mixed found objects made into materials for the pieces and also uses different things they find that have a connection or a story to them. I talked...
Debbi Kenote: Painter
Tom Ray's Art Podcast - July 23, 2023 14:18 - 45 minutes ★★★★★ - 13 ratingsOn 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. Links Debb...
Estefania Velez Rodriguez: Painter
Tom Ray's Art Podcast - July 09, 2023 17:00 - 54 minutes ★★★★★ - 13 ratingsOn 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 pi...
Sfera Louis: Painter
Tom Ray's Art Podcast - June 18, 2023 14:01 - 36 minutes ★★★★★ - 13 ratingsOn 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 ...
Damone Harris: Video creator
Tom Ray's Art Podcast - June 11, 2023 13:55 - 50 minutes ★★★★★ - 13 ratingsOn this podcast episode, I meet Damone Harris of Mone Media. Damone is a video creator living in Milwaukee WI. I found out about Damone on YouTube a few years back because they have a weekly video series recreating Saturday Morning cartoon broadcasts from the 1980s and earlier. And I mean the co...
Melanie Sartori: Painter
Tom Ray's Art Podcast - June 04, 2023 14:00 - 48 minutes ★★★★★ - 13 ratingsOn 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...
Peter Schenck: Painter
Tom Ray's Art Podcast - May 28, 2023 17:26 - 43 minutes ★★★★★ - 13 ratingsOn 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 ...
Drew Sternitzky: Mr Hugh's History comics
Tom Ray's Art Podcast - May 21, 2023 13:45 - 48 minutes ★★★★★ - 13 ratingsOn this podcast episode, I meet Drew Sternitzky. Drew is an artist living in Wisconsin who draws a comic called Mr. Hugh’s History. It's a weekly comic strip about events big and small that have shaped our collective history. And it's also available now in a new book! Mr. Hugh's History on Inst...
Stephen Gilpin: Cartoonist and illustrator
Tom Ray's Art Podcast - May 14, 2023 14:01 - 47 minutes ★★★★★ - 13 ratingsOn this podcast episode, I meet Stephen Gilpin. Stephen Gilpin has been working professionally as an illustrator since 2001. He’s illustrated numerous picture books, chapter books, graphic novels and illustrations for a host of clients including Disney/Hyperion, Simon and Schuster, Harper, MacMi...
Joseph Iorio: Painter
Tom Ray's Art Podcast - May 08, 2023 03:31 - 35 minutes ★★★★★ - 13 ratingsOn 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 the...
Ryan Haugland: Painter and musician
Tom Ray's Art Podcast - April 30, 2023 14:26 - 34 minutes ★★★★★ - 13 ratingsOn 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 ans...
Liora Paniz: Children's Book Writer, Mediator and Dancer
Tom Ray's Art Podcast - April 16, 2023 14:00 - 32 minutes ★★★★★ - 13 ratingsOn this podcast episode, I meet writer Liora Paniz. Liora tells me about how a combination of dancing and Mediation led to being a writer. And how a vacation trip inspired Liora with the idea to start making children's books. Miss Lynnie The Librarian Website https://sbgpublishing.com/product/...
Rob Parkinson: Relik Ragwear, Graphic design and T-shirts
Tom Ray's Art Podcast - April 09, 2023 14:12 - 49 minutes ★★★★★ - 13 ratingsOn this podcast episode, I talk with artist Rob Parkinson. Rob is a graphic designer who has worked as an artist for different companies and eventually went into business for himself as a full-time freelance designer. Rob also started an online t-shirt company of his own called Relik Ragwear whe...
billy Z duke: AI Artist
Tom Ray's Art Podcast - April 02, 2023 14:00 - 43 minutes ★★★★★ - 13 ratingsOn this podcast episode, I meet AI artist billy Z duke. billy lives in California and has been a musician for years. But recently billy started making fantasy paintings using AI. These aren't just prompted that billy is doing to make the artwork. The work is created section by section in the pro...