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Mar 31, 2009

"This is very nice. Really interesting color choice........Just the right amount of texture, some hidden, some in plain view. WONDERFUL!"

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Artistic Medium: My medium of choice has been acrylics since I started painting in 1972. While in school, I was a pen and ink guy. I played with a lacquer, acrylic combination. I thought water color was the way of the future for me until I found my water colors looked just like my acrylics.

Influences: My earliest influence would have to be Walt Disney. About at the age of nine I picked up a book of images by Big Daddy Ed Roth. Off I went on a tangent to draw monsters in cartoon hot rods. Some time in the seventh grade I was turned on to Van Gogh and Ansel Adams at the same time. I have to mention my high school art teacher at this point, Dixie Dove Glenn. She taught me to paint without ever looking back and with no regrets or boundaries. Since then, I have had my eyes opened by a bunch of locals here in Kansas City, two that stand out are Bob Holloway and Mathew Monks. Being a self taught art, these people might no be stand outs to most artists, but with not ever being exposed to them, well I wouldn't be who I am today.

How it all began...: Well.........I've been drawing since I was 18 months old and haven't looked back since. I have always known I had a true passion for art.

In the works...: Well after visiting Madrid, New Mexico a couple of years ago, I have been doing my best to grow as an abstract expressionist.

Down the road...: Well.........hopefully the economy works with me and and I can retire in a few years and head off to New Mexico where I want to open and art gallery and will be wanting all of you to send your art for me to sell.

About me in general...: 'When asked how long it takes me to paint a painting, my reply is always, all my life. Every brush stroke and drawing that I have ever done has brought me to finish each painting.

After 36 years of selling my art, I have found how fickle I am with what I like to do. Abstract art is now my new direction. It's like painting with no responsibility, letting the color live where it wants to on the canvas. If you do these things, the piece will always speak to the observer'.

Ray Wolf

Born in 1950 in Kansas City, Missouri. A mother of native American blood and a father of German heritage, I was an only child to parents who were not suppose to be able to have children. I've known since grade school that art would be the passion of my life. Having wonderful parents that put no restraints on my artistic talent, has given me the ability to paint without boundaries. Being a self taught artist, I have experimented with different techniques to achieve the styles I have painted over the years. My growth as an artist has led me to the enjoyment of abstract art and letting the color itself tell me where it wants to live on the canvas.

My abstracts are fresh, they explode with color and vitality, yet they exhibit a kinship with my Native American heritage. They exist outside mind and place. My expansive paintings evoke a powerful response.

My paintings are in numerous private, corporate and public collections.

if you could collaborate with/meet any artist, past or present, who would it be?: Salvador Dalí

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At 4:58pm on February 21, 2009, one world one art said…: Ray - we will post the information regarding your artslant competition on the main page. let's get you some owoa votes. let us know how it goes. good luck!!