Drawings and Paintings « Jenny Ray Art

Drawings and Paintings

Watercolor painting of a young woman gritting her teeth and reaching over her head to pull out the windup key that was embedded in her back. Clockwork parts and blood spurts from her back.

Watercolor Painting I painted this while I was a full-time student and working part time at two jobs. I was feeling rather overwhelmed! Available on my Etsy ...

Wound Up

Watercolor painting of a tiger laying in a sunbeam coming through a window in a blue room.

Watercolor Painting Available on my Etsy

Sunbathing

Watercolor painting of Maleficent from Sleeping Beauty, but in a different style. She is tall and thin with a sickly lime green bob. Her fairy wings are the same color. She is reaching out to a spinning wheel.

Watercolor Painting My take on the villain from the classic fairytale, Sleeping Beauty. In the story, she is a fairy, a fact that was overlooked in the animated Disney film, although it was ...

Maleficent

Mixed Media Painting: Watercolor and Oil Pastels. I wanted to evoke the feelings of sadness and isolation that we all can feel from time to time. The woman is alone and outside of the home. ...

Melancholy

A watercolor painting of a man in a stylist green suit standing in the center of a stage. He is holding out a mask of his face, revealing a sinister grin and that he doesn't have any eyes. On the floor of the stage, peeking out from behind the curtain, is a woman also without eyes and holding a mask of her face.

Watercolor painting This watercolor painting was inspired by the Biblical story of Adam and Eve's fall. Even though both were disobedient and both were punished, it seemed that when people ...

Center Stage

Color drawing of a young woman wielding a polearm at the viewer.

Jujutsu Kaisen is one of my favorite anime shows. Maki Zen'in is a student at Tokyo Jujutsu High School of Sorcery. She is extremely skilled at wielding many different cursed weapons. The polearm ...

Maki Zen’in from Jujutsu Kaisen

Colored drawing of a demon with the body of a lion and the head of a man in a chef's coat floating above a basket of fries, while he is stealing a fry from a passing waitress's tray.

My son requested a custom Yu-Gi-Oh card based on the Nouvelles archetype. Those cards combine different food dishes with demons from the Pseudomonarchia Daemonum. My son wanted a version based on ...

Custom Yu-Gi-Oh Card: Duke Valefrites

Watercolor painting of a young man with the head of a black bird, wearing a black cloak which he has thrown open to reveal a dark purple entity coming out of his chest and wrapping around his body. The entity has a bird- like head with glowing white eyes.

Here's a painting of one of my favorite characters from the anime show "My Hero Academia". Tokoyami has the quirk (superpower) of Dark Shadow, an entity that lives in him, which helps him in ...

Tokoyami and Dark Shadow

Ink drawing of Tom Hiddleston as Loki

I love Tom Hiddleston's portrayal of Loki in the Marvel Cinematic Universe. His smile is so wonderfully mischievous! Check out this short TikTok of me drawing ...

Loki’s Smile

Cartoon of two cats and a girl playfully running through a living room

My daughter requested a picture of her and our two cats playfully chasing each other. Our fluffy calico, Rey, is on the left. Our orange tabby, Fergus, is in the middle. I drew this on a bristol ...

Fluffy Friends

Colored Pencils with Acrylic Pen Outline I created this illustration of the Bakugan Haos Nillious for my son. It's his favorite character from the Bakugan world: game play and animated series. I ...

Bakugan Haos Nillious

Acrylic and Alcohol Ink Drawing This is the final in a 4-part series honoring the Japanese art of kintsugi. The philosophy of it is that once a piece of pottery has been broken and repaired using ...

Perfect in Brokenness

Acrylic and Alcohol Ink Drawing This is the third in a 4-part series honoring the Japanese art of kintsugi. It is the process of putting a broken piece of pottery back together using gold. The ...

Beautifully Broken

Acrylic and Alcohol Ink Drawing This is the second in a 4-part series honoring the Japanese art of kintsugi. This is an old tradition of repairing broken pottery with gold. The idea behind it is ...

Broken but Healed

Acrylic and Alcohol Ink Drawing This is the first in a 4-part series honoring the Japanese art of kintsugi. Kintsugi is the process of repairing broken pottery with gold. The philosophy is that ...

Broken but Stronger

Watercolor painting of a harlequin sitting on the ground looking forlorn. She is holding a megaphone but has no mouth.

Watercolor Painting It is hard to say everything you need to when you don't have a

So Much to Say

Colored pencil drawing of a jester on bended knee with his hands over his heart as he smiles in adoration of what seems to be an angel flying above him, but her face is a mask and two small red horns are poking out of her hair.

"Foolish Love" pencil drawing This ink illustration is from a series about the masks people wear. This poor fool has given his heart to someone who isn't as angelic as she seems. Available on ...

Foolish Love

Pastel drawing of a woman chained to a tall hooded creature that is putting a blindfold on her.

"Trapped?" pastel drawing in the Mask Series Her captor looms over her, binding her vision and voice as he has already bound her wrists. But wait, is that the key around her ...

Trapped

Ink drawing of a man in a fancy suit, tipping his top hat, while wearing a mask.

"The Showman" ink drawing in the Mask Series This ink illustration is from a series about the masks people wear. Some wear them out of fear, some for deception, and some for entertainment. Is ...

The Showman

Ink drawing of a sinister figure in a smiling mask.

"Who Me?" ink drawing from the Mask Series This ink illustration is from a series about the masks people wear. Some wear them out of fear, others, like the subject of this drawing, do it for more ...

Who Me?

Watercolor painting close up of a woman's crying eye as she pulls off the mask she was wearing.

"Removing the Mask" watercolor painting in the Mask Series It can be painful to remove a mask you are used to wearing. It can also be painful to continue to wear ...

Removing the Mask

Ink painting of a woman on the ground covering her head with her hands as rain pours down. There is a mask in front of her.

"Going for Cover" ink painting in the Mask Series People wear masks for many reasons. Sometimes they do for a sense of protection…but do they really protect ...

Going for Cover

Lithograph of a woman in the middle of many signs showing various female role models and stereotypes. The woman is looking toward the role models and a ladder reaching into the sky.

"Within Our Sights" lithograph Women's roles and how we are perceived have grown so much over the past 100 years. We still have a ways to go for equal treatment, but it is within our ...

Within Our Sights

Pencil drawing of a female clown with a single tear rolling down her cheek.

"Tears of a Clown" pencil drawing It can be quite a burden to always be the entertainer, the one who makes others

Tears of a Clown

Pencil drawing of an eye crying. The tears run down the corner of a prison cell where a small girl huddles in the corner.

"Prison of My Mind" pencil drawing Illustration of the pain and loneliness that can be inflicted within one's own

Prison of My Mind

Acrylic painting of a yellow woman, a blue woman, and a red woman putting on lipstick that changes their lips to green, purple, and orange, respectively.

"Color Wheel Women" acrylic painting A unique twist on the traditional color

Color Wheel Women

Colored pencil drawing of an elegant dress, wig, and mask from the 17th century that appears to be worn, but there is no one actually in the dress.

"Empty Beauty" colored pencil drawing in the Mask Series The elegant beauty as all the trappings of wealth and style, but no ...

Empty Beauty

Mixed media painting of a very fluffy blue cat with the words of a poem around it.

"Old Mog" mixed media painting Simple poem by Joan Aiken about a cat: "Old Mog comes in and sits on the newspaper Old fat sociable cat Thinks when we stroke him he's doing us a favor Maybe ...

Old Mog

Watercolor painting of a scraggly cat with a quote from a movie around it.

"Haggard's Cat" watercolor painting The mysterious and perplexing cat that lived in Haggard's castle in "The Last Unicorn". Along with this quote from the text: "I am what I am. I would tell you ...

Haggard’s Cat

The Cheshire Cat from Wonderland with a giant grin and a quote from the book around him.

"Cheshire Cat" mixed media painting My take on the grinning feline from Alice in Wonderland with this quote from the text: "A dog's not mad, you grant that? Well, then you see a dog growls when ...

Cheshire Cat

Mixed media painting of a blue woman with red hair touching a gray guitar, causing a rainbow of color to start to spread across the guitar and gray room.

"Color of Music" mixed media painting Music brings color and vibrancy to

Color of Music

Set in Wonderland, Alice is beating the Queen of Hearts at croquet.

"The Queen's Croquet Game" ink drawing In this croquet game, Alice gets an edge over the Queen of Hearts and is about to "send" her hedgehog into the ...

The Queen’s Croquet Game

Ink drawing of Alice and the Mad Hatter laying on top of a mushroom and playing tic-tac-toe with hookah smoke. The caterpillar is under the mushroom looking disgruntled.

"Caterpillar's Hookah" ink drawing Alice and the Mad Hatter borrow the Caterpillar's hookah and he looks none too pleased about ...

Caterpillar’s Hookah

Ink drawing of the Mad Hatter, March Hare, and Dormouse in Wonderland.

"Mad Tea Party" ink drawing Join in the strangest tea party with the Mad Hatter, March Hare, and Dormouse in ...

Mad Tea Party

Drawing of a girl reaching into a mirror.

"A Look in the Mirror" pencil drawing This piece is about looking deeper into yourself. We are much more than what we see in the ...

A Look in the Mirror

Portrait of Elaina in the world of The Beatles' Yellow Submarine.

Portrait of Elaina in the world of The Beatles' Yellow Submarine Elaina is a huge fan of The Beatles. When I created her portrait, I used elements from their film, The Yellow Submarine. ...

Elaina

Intricate Art Nouveau ink design of a woman kneeling down, holding out her crown.

Intricate Art Nouveau ink design This piece was commissioned by a fan of the Art Nouveau style, particularly Alphonse Mucha. The woman is kneeling before Jesus, offering her crown to him, ...

Christus Victor

Abstract mixed media painting of butterflies and flowers.

"Flowers and Butterflies" mixed media painting Abstract painting of colorful butterflies flitting in a field of flowers. Available on my Etsy ...

Flowers and Butterflies