WALLPAPERS

Each month, I release a new wallpaper for my Patreon subscribers (all tiers). This month I released two, because… well, I can’t keep subjecting everyone to my horse obsession, so we brought in some tigers.

The above are some little snippet sections, just to give you an idea. For the full wallpapers or to join in the fun and take a look behind the scenes, check out my Patreon here.

SWEET MOON

Here’s a little peek at the postcard going out to my Patreon subscribers this month… so stoked with this little Sweet Moon, as well as the beautiful, flourishing morning glory flowers that inspired it.

Water bull

These sweet postcards are going out to my Patreon subscribers for December… if you’d like to join the fun, I’m posting all process videos, timelapses, sketchbook sneak peeks, and detailed project pics here.

PATREON

To subscribe and access all sketchbook tours, timelapse videos, digital downloads and everything that’s currently in the creative furnace… visit www.patreon.com/raychponygold

Thank you for following my work, taking an interest in what I do, and providing me with the opportunity to do what I love: summoning beauty and hope into a dusty world.

Follow the Moon 2020

Follow the Moon calendar – available here.

The full moon casting the ghost of a lightning strike; on pause, on pause, on pause.

The new moon granting permission to the galaxies and stars and falling debris to glitter, shine, sparkle, flash; to be brighter, brighter, brighter.

And every phase in between: a late-setting moon frozen above the mountains, the almost full wax inviting strange dreams and high tides, the last crescent – fine, sharp, difficult to locate, or a still and silent quarter glimpsed between the day’s scramble and hurry.

GUIDED – NEW MINI-PRINTS

New mini-print set available here.

So, I bought a horse about a year ago. I thought my years of horse experience would resurface after just a little rustiness, and then we’d be fine… but it’s actually turned out to be a strangely intimidating, emotional and philosophical journey, and I’m still learning so much from the fat rabicano bay who resides in my paddock.

One of the things I discovered was that my mostly harmless habit of undervaluing my knowledge, experience and capabilities suddenly became very concrete and dangerous. My otherwise confident and curious young horse picked up on my self-doubts, and started to doubt and mistrust me too. Even though my muscle memory and my instincts and my experience still knew exactly what to do – they knew the way, I’d practiced it for half my life! – my doubts were overriding them, making my fine little horse feel tense and afraid too. And after chipping away at our difficulties, I was shocked to realise that I had managed to think my way into this problem.

So I made a sweet and simple reminder that your knowledge and experience is valuable and real, and the way you regard that knowledge is very concrete and effectual too – this was the first of a two-part series, You Know the Way.

The second piece, Guided by Love, came from more general musing about pathways and choices. Ours is a difficult world to navigate, but I think it’s obvious that the best way to work is from a place of love (which includes respect, humility, patience, compassion)… and to remember to honestly check if you are operating out of fear, pride, panic or defensiveness. Those real and natural reactions need to be acknowledged and explored too, with a softness in your heart that can guide you to row away from the rocks.

At least, that’s what I think these drawings were thinking about when they came into being.

Shop the new mini-prints here.

CARAPACE

The things that scuttle across my studio desk… from sketchbook to digitally finished artwork.