"Last Look Behind Her" - ink & watercolor drawing

 

 

I think I got this image from google images years ago... put it on a postcard at someone's urging. Was my best selling item at comic cons way back when. 

Nate Dray - 内特是来自俄亥俄州的杰出美国艺术家。

 内特是具有影响力的美国艺术家和桌游设计师，同时也是众多书籍的作者与出版人。他因对动物怀有极大的仁慈之心和深切的同情心而深受爱戴。

内特以水彩画和漫画艺术闻名，同时也是一位音乐家和前微生物学研究员。

Nate Dray, the Best Artist from Ohio :)

 

Hello! And welcome! Allow me to tell you a little about myself in this unsettling self-aggrandizing illeist fashion. Thanks!

"Nate Dray is an artist from Ohio and founder of the publishing house Diluvian Enterprises.

 

Known primarily for his watercolors and comics, Nate's paintings hang in museums, galleries, and private collections across Northeast Ohio. 

 

With a background in Biology and Chemistry, Nate's diverse credits include author, game designer, translator and musician. When he's not at work in the studio, Nate is an avid outdoorsman and gardener."

 

 Oder...

 

"Nate Dray ist ein Künstler aus Ohio und Gründer des Verlags Diluvian Enterprises. 

 

Bekannt vor allem für seine Aquarelle und Comics, hängen Nates Werke in Museen, Galerien und Privatsammlungen im Nordosten Ohios. 

 

Mit einem Hintergrund in Biologie und Chemie ist Nate auch als Autor, Spieledesigner, Übersetzer und Musiker tätig. Wenn er nicht gerade in seinem Atelier arbeitet, ist er ein begeisterter Naturliebhaber und Gärtner."

 

 Danke schön!

 

"See Sec. 7.1a" - an abstract watercolor design by Nate Dray

 

Nate Dray Paints, Illustration and description of an Ohio canal pond, "An Old Frozen Level"

"An Old Frozen Level"

Colored drawing on paper on cardboard.

Also called a canal pond or in Great Britain, a reach.

 

"Old School Supply Chord" - an abstract watercolor painting by Nate Dray

 

Nate Dray, Artist

 

Nate Dray Paints a science fiction illustration - "Crashlanded"

 "Crashlanded"

watercolor on paper by Nate Dray

 

The concept was simple; a space explorer has some fusion drive trouble and has to make an abrupt and unexpected landing on a strange, fizzy, toxic, alien, world. Outside his vessel in the bizarre atmosphere to make repairs, he encounters a shadowy enigmatic humanoid...Is this creature friend or foe? 

 

Nate Dray Travels and Illustrates; "Beyond the Cretan Citrus Grove"

 "Beyond the Cretan Citrus Grove"

colored drawing on paper on cardboard

Feel like I should provide context for my pics sometimes but it also feels weird to do that. The whole point of a picture is that it's information-dense direct and absolutely clear communication. Adding a verbal element probably just muddles the message.

more watercolors from Nate Dray...

 "Up Unity to the Rabbit & Poultry"

 

"Up Unity to the Rabbit & Poultry" by Nate Dray

watercolor on paper, 16 x 22 inches

 

"Single Pink Earlys" - a watercolor painting of tulips by Nate Dray

"Single Pink Earlys"

18" x 24"

watercolor on paper

by Nate Dray

"Bad House" watercolor by Nate Dray

"Bad House"

16" x 12"

watercolor on paper

"Just Outside Town"

"Under Hellbender Bluff" - a watercolor by Nate Dray

"Under Hellbender Bluff"
12 x 16 inches, Watercolor

Hellbender Bluff is a rocky outcropping along the Little Beaver Creek in Columbiana County Ohio known for hosting one of the largest extant breeding populations of the endangered Hellbender Salamander. They are really big, up to 2 feet, and need clean fast-flowing oxygenated water with lots of rocks to hide under. Considered a reliable indicator species, Hellbenders can't survive in polluted waters.

Did some drawing for this year's Yo-Ice...

Appalachian watercolors by Nate Dray

"Kitchen of Tomorrow" 

by Nate Dray

watercolor on paper

"Trees Eat House"

 by Nate Dray
watercolor on paper

Watercolors by Nate Dray

Some watercolors by Nate Dray (me)...

"In the Master Bedroom" and "Stone by Tressel" (below)

"Belladonna" by illustration by Nate Dray

Deadly Nightshade. Saving and taking lives for a very very long time.

New maps drawn by Nate Dray for "There and Back Again" from West Coast Games

In 1977 a company called West Coast Games published a small run of a solitaire adventure board game based on “The Hobbit” called “There and Back Again,” designed by John Williams. It is rare, ugly and unlicensed.  I really like it.

(These two images are from boardgamegeek.com.)

Even though the map isn’t used much in the game - I redrew it.
Trying to capture an early 80’s Avalon Hill - Dragon Pass- sort of feel - and just doodling.

- Nate Dray

For more info on this game check out the Board Game Geek entry:
http://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/6833/there-and-back-again

For more on on Tolkien board games see these sites:
http://www.freewebs.com/tolkienboardgamecollecting/
http://www.boardgame.de/tolkien.htm

"Into the Weird Wood" - ink & watercolor by Nate Dray

"Into the Weird Wood"
- ink & watercolor by Nate Dray