"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...

 "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"

18" x 24"

watercolor on paper

by Nate Dray

"Bad House"

16" x 12"

watercolor on paper

"Just Outside Town"

"Under Hellbender Bluff"
12 x 16 inches, Watercolor

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

"Kitchen of Tomorrow" 

by Nate Dray

watercolor on paper

"Eaten By Trees"

 by Nate Dray
watercolor on paper

Some watercolors by Nate Dray (me)...

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

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

Yes! Most assuredly, yes. Indeed. With absolute certainty. Yes.  . . .  yes.