Wednesday, March 6, 2019

"Elkton Bridgehead"

14" x 12"
watercolor on paper


This title is a misnomer. The term "bridgehead" implies strategic significance and that's just simply untrue in this case. :)

Saturday, June 17, 2017

"Under Hellbender Bluff" - a watercolor by Nate Dray

"Under Hellbender Bluff"
12 x 16 inches, Watercolor

"Under Hellbender Bluff" watercolor by artist Nate Dray is a view from the creek bottom along the Little Beaver Creek famous for a populatio of hellbender salamanders one of the world's largest extant amphibians.




















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.

Saturday, April 8, 2017

 Album Cover color rough.

Soon after doing this drawing, I lost it. Disappeared. Months later it surfaced. Then it sat stretched on a board 3/4 of the way finished for a year or so...

This is a color rough for the back cover art on the band ALBUM's album "Majestic Silvereye."


Wednesday, December 7, 2016

“Green Wave Break over Mike Lusk’s Lock (no, his kid isn’t buried in it)”

watercolor paint by Nate Dray of Lusk's Lock with trees and foliage Little Beaver Creek Columbiana County Ohio


“Green Wave Break over Mike Lusk’s Lock (no, his kid isn’t buried in it)”

Lusk was an English engineer who built beautiful locks. Contracted for a couple in the 1830s for the Sandy and Beaver Canal. There are sad stories about how this work in the howling Ohio wilderness adversely affected his life and family.

Monday, October 26, 2015

Album's album "Majestic Silvereye" cover artwork by Nate Dray, heavy metal illustration, sci-fi alien world wizard thrash!

Album's new album "Majestic Silvereye" was long in the making. It's amazing thrash-rock-metal-pop (whew!). Getting great reviews and— to totally use a grand cliche— an instant classic.

Get it on itunes: https://itunes.apple.com/us/album/majestic-silvereye/id1036318347

Check it out on google play: https://play.google.com/store/music/album/ALBUM_Majestic_SilverEye?id=Brf5dsgmw3mrpyi4wrcu53i53ii

Recorded over several months at Mindrocket Recording Studio in West Middlesex, PA— the album is an epic technicolor guitar saga.

I did the artwork. It was an honor. :)