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Colorful Glass Magnets To Brighten Up Your Space
Are you sitting in a gray cube? Is your refrigerator dull or just have magnets from the pizza place down the street? How about your locker? Do you need to hold up some paper and have something to meditate on during a short break? All this can be achieved and more with the amazing, hand…
Updates Half Way Through #InkTober
It is #InkTober and many people are posting ink drawings every day of the month. Here are my latest drawings.InkTober #7 – Abstract Ink October 13, 2014 by Mark Bray InkTober #8 – Abstract Ink October 13, 2014 by Mark Bray InkTober #9 – Bat – October 15, 2014 by Mark Bray InkTober #10 –…
Big Art Opening For Darcy And Mark This Friday
This Friday will be the opening of the Art Guild of Pacifica 55th Annual Member Show from 7-9PM. Darcy and I both have a painting each in the show. See you there, Mark
Reopening of Crystaleyezed Etsy Page
I’ve reopened the Crystaleyezed Etsy Page and posted a batch of 4 x 6 prints. I’ll be updating it with new products regularly so check back often. If you would like to keep up with our adventures sign up on our mailing list and we will send you updates and specials from the Crystaleyezed Fine…
Come Hang Out At The Gallery With Me This Evening! …and some new art by Darcy and Mark
I will be sitting at the Oceana Art Gallery in Pacifica, CA tonight from 5-7PM. They have a really nice show there going until November 2nd called Coastal Wood. It features “ARTS AND CRAFTS INSPIRED BY THE CREATIVE POSSIBILITIES OF WOOD”. There are some really big pieces and also some smaller affordable ones too. Oceana…
Two More Ink Drawings And A Panorama of Rockaway Beach in Pacifica
With my trusty brush in hand I did a couple more little ink drawings yesterday. They are both about 8 x 10. The InkTober challenge has been forcing me to move along a little quicker and experiment. Abstract Ink Oct 8 2014 by Mark Bray – InkTober Drawing 2 Abstract Ink 2 Oct 8 2014…
Are You Participating In InkTober?
I found out about this thing called InkTober, have you heard about it? Are you participating? Don’t know what it is? “Every October, artists all over the world take on the InkTober drawing challenge by doing one ink drawing a day the entire month.” Jake Parker is an Illustrator and seems to be the person…
Craft Sale, 18 Inning Giants Game And King Crimson On A Busy Birthday Weekend
Purple Flower 141002 by Darcy Rowley This weekend was my birthday and there was lots to do. To start it off I had the Oceana Art Gallery Craft Sale from 1-5 on Saturday. I met a lot of people and made some good connections. I’m just starting to work with some of the art collectives…
Pink and Purple Waves of Color
I woke up early this morning and decided to do a bit of digital painting. Pink and purple were the colors of the morning. I took shots of it in 3 phases. Pink and Purple 141003 by Mark Bray Phase 1 Pink and Purple 141003 by Mark Bray Phase 2 Pink and Purple 141003 by Mark…
Macro Flowers And Abstract Art In The Post Up Challenge Of The Day
Today I bring you a head to head knockout between the prize artists of Crystaleyezed Fine Arts! In one corner we have the lovely Darcy Rowley taking the macro shots and getting up close and personal with nature. Armed with her trusty camera she roams the streets of San Francisco finding little spots of beauty…
Making Art and Setting Up A Craft Sale Table
I painted this yesterday in Paper by 53 on my iPad.Color Waves September 30, 2014 By Mark Bray Here is a kaleidoscope version of it. I’m making up a few art prints of these to sell at the Oceana Art Gallery Craft Sale this Saturday. I will be set up there from 1-5PM.Color Waves Kaleidoscope…
Making Crafty Things For The Oceana Art Gallery Arts and Crafts Sale
I’m working all kinds of new stuff for a craft sale at the Oceana Art Gallery in Pacifica. It will be on October 4, which is my birthday! Then right after the show I am going in to San Francisco to see King Crimson at the Warfield. It should be an exciting day. This should…
Muddy Paw Prints On Photos Getting Sent To The Pacific Coast Fog Fest
Today is the first bit of rain of the year and Shady was out running around getting her paws wet and she promptly came in, hopped up and walked across both our submission forms and all the pictures. Now we have muddy paw prints on everything! I’m still super happy to have the rain and…
Experimenting With New Substrates For Latest Painting
I’ve been trying out different things like canvas, paper and board and testing different layers of gesso, sanding, glazing and spraying. This latest experiment is on a 6″ x 6″ unprimed wood panel on 1 1/2″ support. I tried out my new Sharpie water based paint pens on this one without any…
What is yellow and green with big black swirls?
Well, of course it is another one of my drawings. This one was done August 12, 2014 on 9 x 12 paper. The original is available today! Check out our print on demand stores for iPhone cases, pillows, stickers and all kinds of other cool stuff. Crystaleyezed Fine Arts on: Zazzle Nuvango Fine Art America…
New Paintings By Mark Bray
I have a couple new paintings available. Wave July 28 2014 Original Painting – 8″ x 8″ Acrylic and Ink on Board Buy Now $100 Mandala Aug 6 2014 8×8 Watercolor and Ink on Paper Buy Now $100
Pretty Pictures Under Glass To Stick To Your Refridgerator
I’ve been making lots of art this year and posting it to Instagram but didn’t know what to do with it. Now I have it! Make little magnets for the fridge. So I looked up how to do it on a bunch of crafty sites, bought some glue, magnets and some flat sided glass marbles…
Art from Mark Bray showing at Oceana Art Gallery
I recently submitted two paintings to be shown in the Art Guild of Pacifica Members Exhibition at the Oceana Art Gallery in Pacifica, CA. They had an opening reception for the show August 1st. It was cool to see my paintings up in a new space and there was a really good turnout for the…
Crystaleyezed Fine Arts Summer Kaleidoscope T Shirts
This is a very limited run that I printed myself in my garage just in time for summer. These are printed on really nice 100% cotton Alternative Apparel T Shirts that are super soft and comfortable. I use water based non-toxic inks to get that super soft, old, faded look like your favorite shirt that…
Re-release of DEZIROTOM and Lots of New Art Sites
There have been a lot of updates since the last post here. You can now follow Crystaleyezed Fine Arts on a few new social networking sites. In honor of Throw Back Thursday I dug up an old album from 1999, DEZIROTOM from Zentropia. I noticed the art for that album is very similar to the…