Ray Ferguson Illustrations

Moving Day!

2010-12-03T16:12:00.000-08:00

I am moving my blog to a new location. Please visit my new blog at http://rayferguson.blogspot.com

Savour

2010-11-27T12:57:00.000-08:00

Savour these moments while you can. Although my children have grown into amazing adults, I still miss them when they were little and hug was all they needed.

Sneaky

2010-11-21T15:17:00.000-08:00

When I was younger we didn't have a dog. When I wanted to get rid of something I didn't like, I had to use my napkin...I went through a lot of napkins.

Another Thanksgiving tradition

2010-11-14T19:02:00.000-08:00

Ok, we have never burned the turkey but there have been other Thanksgiving disasters over the years. One year we cooked the turkey and forgot to take out the heart and giblets that were still in the bag inside the bird. There was the year we over cooked the turkey but under cooked everything else. There was even a year we forgot to cook the turkey.

So, burning the bird is not out of the realm possibility. We just haven’t gotten to it yet.

The Lion Tamer

2010-11-07T12:58:00.000-08:00

Afterwards this didn't seem like such a good idea.

i.f. immovable

2010-08-29T18:38:00.000-07:00

Immovable indeed!

if - atmosphere

2010-08-21T16:23:00.000-07:00

The atmosphere suddenly changed when the visiting team scored the winning touchdown.

I'm so happy it's football season again. I'm sorry I had to make my wife's favorite team lose. But this might be the only way my team can bet them.

IF Star Gazing

2010-08-16T16:57:00.000-07:00

It's clear it's in the stars.

i.f. focused

2010-01-29T14:10:00.000-08:00

Sometimes being too focused to make you lose focus.

Happy Halloween!

2009-10-31T13:07:00.000-07:00

Happy Halloween!!!

I saw this moon on one of Bill Wray's illustrations on his web site, it was awesome. I had to copy it.

Apologies to Bill, feel free to copy my art anytime.

Skinny

2009-10-31T13:00:00.001-07:00

One size fits all...it just doesn't always look the same.

Riley

2009-09-15T14:01:00.000-07:00

I have a new friend, my dog Riley. He follows me everywhere. He is my shadow. We have become very close these last two weeks with me being home.

We sit together and watch television. We watch a lot of home improvement shows. I believe that Riley and I could build a bookshelf together.

We take naps during Oprah, we don’t like Oprah too much, too many commercials.

We both like to snack…a lot.

My wife says that he will be lost without me. “What will he do all day when you go back to work?”

I have a pretty good idea. I trained him well.

The Family Vacation 2009!

2009-09-01T09:27:00.000-07:00

Vacation started out like every other vacation the Ferguson clan has ever taken. We (Kelli and I) decide to leave at 7:00 am and Kay decides that we need to leave at 8:00 am. Kelli and I won; we left at 7:45.

We had an un-eventful ride to LAX…this is a good thing. Until, we got to the security checkpoint. There were two lines; one was a mile long! (OK I’m exaggerating it was a mile and a half long.) And the other was empty. I asked the nice person guarding the short line if we could take the line less traveled. She asked if we were traveling first class, after we all had a good chuckle, we humbly took our place in the looooong slow moving line. Then to make matters worse, when we get to the front of the line I hand the Transit cop the wrong boarding pass. Talk about having a short fuse…this guy should really seek therapy.

We finally make it past the security obstacle course to wait for our plane. And wait we did. Our flight was to take off at 11:30 am at 11:00 am we were notified that our flight was delayed to an unknown time. As we are waiting I notice that everything is very modern and has up to date technology. There are monitors that tell you the weather in China, flight times down to the second and how to board a plane with cool graphics, But the public address system sounds like something the Wright brothers might of used. And why must they all speak in to it at once.

At 1:00 pm we finally board our flight. Despite our delay we will still make our connecting flight in Honolulu. The flight crew looks stressed as we board.

I have a bad feeling about this.

We are finally off to the cheers and applause of all the passengers. This is short lived though; we end up sitting on the tarmac for over an hour.

As we are sitting the pilot informs us that we are still having a problem with the plane. Something about a bad hyper-drive, thingamajig, that they were trying to fix.

I have a bad feeling about this.

About a half hour later the pilot informs us that we are still having problems and now the control tower lost our flight plan.

I have a REALLY bad feeling about this.

Finally the pilot tells us that we are now low on fuel and we will have to return to the gate. As we return to the gate we stop again. As we wait, there are now fire trucks and police cars rushing to our plane!

I have a REALLY REALLY bad feeling about this!

Somehow we return to the airport. As we disembark the flight crew looks a little relieved as they say their good byes.

Our journey now takes us to the customer service counter. There are 200 people in this line. It would be quicker to walk Hawaii. Why is it in a situation like this there is always someone that thinks they know more than anyone else? This woman seemed to know everything that was wrong with our flight from the bad flux compositor to who was sleeping with whom. After a few minutes in line I have a revelation! Why not call customer service! Who would of thought watching The Amazing Race would payoff. After calling we found out that the airlines had already booked us on another flight, a direct flight, to Kauai. We were the envy of the customer service line; soon everyone was on their cell phones.

It is now 4:00pm and as we wait to get our boarding passes for our new flight a thought hits us…OUR LUGGAGE! Where is it going? We are informed that it is on our original flight and it’s going to Honolulu. As fate has it they now announce that our original flight is now boarding at another gate. I go to that gate to ask if it would be better to stay with our luggage or take the other flight. The attendant is confused and says that we are on this flight and now wants to see all of our boarding passes. Around this time Kelli comes to inform me that they are waiting for our boarding passes on the other side of the airport. We are now holding up two lines. My attendant informs us that we would be better off with the direct flight and makes it her personal mission to take care of our boarding passes much to the chagrin of the attendant for the direct flight. Who is now giving my wife dirty looks.

Finally, we are getting on a flight to Hawaii! But we notice that there is no boarding number on our pass. I learned that this is necessary from their high-tech monitors. When we inquire the attendant looks at us like we are stupid and says, “Your in first class. Go ahead and board.” YES! Our fortunes have changed.

First class is awesome! Food, drinks, legroom, pillows and warm cookies. What could be better?

After a few hours we arrive in Kauai, we tired without luck to find out anything on our luggage. We decide to go our condo and worry about our luggage in the morning. We wait for the rental car bus to take us to get our car. After 20 minutes the bus arrives and the driver, Mr. Dang, asks us which rental car company we are going to, Avis or Budget? We all say Avis. Mr. Dang say OK, we’ll go to Budget first. (We are the only ones on the bus, mind you.) To make matters worse we could of walked to Avis it was only 100 yards from the terminal.

We are finally here. Our condo is awesome. Our luggage showed up. There is only one problem. We fly 2387 miles to get away from work only to have this right across the street from us…

if: adapt

2009-05-31T09:53:00.000-07:00

It looks like Fido is going to have some trouble adapting to his new role.

Proud parents!

2009-05-19T17:04:00.000-07:00

It's a big day at the Ferguson homestead. Today my son graduated college. We couldn't be more proud. Next stop for him is marriage and law school...He's an overachiever.

if: contagious

2009-05-17T16:19:00.000-07:00

Sharing can be contagious.

impossibility

2009-04-19T11:00:00.001-07:00

When he made the bet with the birds he thought that this would be an impossibility.

Happy Easter!

2009-04-12T12:52:00.000-07:00

subtract

2009-03-22T15:54:00.001-07:00

You do the Math!

Legendary

2009-03-14T12:19:00.001-07:00

The legendary group "Goldie and the Three Bears" will be performing at Old Mother Hubbard's club nightly. Now that Goldie has put her bed hopping and porridge addiction behind her, the group can focus on making beautiful music.

Carry that weight

2009-02-20T20:04:00.001-08:00

The elephants were instinctively afraid of the mouse...the monkey is now instinctively afraid of elephants.

Poor coach

2009-01-24T15:10:00.000-08:00

I was never able to climb that rope when I was a kid in gym class. I was more like the kid with his finger up his nose. My coach use to have this expression all the time. I felt for the guy... He was also my driver's ed teacher, I think he had a death wish.

Bath Time

2009-01-07T10:45:00.000-08:00

This is how bath time always ended up at my house. More water outside the tub than in.

Wise

2008-11-08T21:58:00.001-08:00

A wise man would not even dare to look.

Broken String

2008-10-12T18:04:00.001-07:00

Looks like we're going to need a new percussionist.

Attack of the 90 foot Candy Corn!

2008-10-05T16:55:00.000-07:00

He may be sugary but he's not sweet!

memories

2008-09-01T17:06:00.001-07:00

Memories of toilet-papering a house and almost getting caught.

An Olympic Moment!

2008-08-16T13:37:00.000-07:00

I think I've been watching too much Olympics. Poor guy a world record isn't the only thing he broke.

Forgotten

2008-06-06T16:43:00.000-07:00

A forgotten childhood. Sometimes you just need to stop and smell the roses.

Worry

2008-05-23T19:02:00.000-07:00

Right time wrong place.

open wide!

2008-05-18T18:03:00.000-07:00

"Pleeeeeeeeeease open wide for the doctor!"

I swear my kids would do this every time we went to the doctor.

electricity

2008-05-11T16:21:00.000-07:00

It wasn't only the news that was shocking...

The BAD Seed

2008-05-04T16:53:00.000-07:00

No price is too great, when it comes to food.

Primitive

2008-04-21T20:01:00.001-07:00

Bigger isn't always better.

Fail

2008-04-11T10:30:00.000-07:00

I’m pretty sure I would have failed this guy, but I don’t know I’ve seen worse on the road.

I.F. Heavy

2008-03-16T18:18:00.001-07:00

Sorry, no time to paint this week. but I hope you enjoy my drawing.

IF - Garden

2008-03-09T18:01:00.000-07:00

Watering the garden.

I.F. Excess

2007-12-02T20:20:00.001-08:00

The hunter living in excess.

Thank you!

2007-10-19T19:03:00.000-07:00

Wow!!!!!
Thank you everyone who voted for my illustration in Illustration Friday "Open" contest. I am really excited to have been selected as one of the 25 artist that will be represented at the Open Gallery. It is a real honor to have been selected out of all the outstanding artist that participate in "I.F.'s" weekly challenges. I want to thank you for your support and hope to see you all November 3rd. when the show opens.

Ray

Illustration Friday: Open

2007-10-07T15:54:00.000-07:00

Little Red opened the door to Gramma’s secret.

IF: Blues

2007-09-30T17:09:00.001-07:00

Street corner blues with a celebrity sitting in on the piano. I created this illustration for web page design.

Something for Alex

2007-08-28T12:39:00.001-07:00

Happy Birthday Alex!

Goldie and the Three Bears

2007-08-05T18:44:00.000-07:00

Just Messin' Around!

2007-03-12T18:02:00.001-07:00

Just messing around

2007-02-23T13:03:00.000-08:00

I know that it has been awhile since my last post. My real job has been keeping me busy. I hope to back on weekly posts real soon.

The Mighty Scream

2006-12-01T12:14:00.000-08:00

Nothing is louder than the scream of a scared kid.
Seriously, I saw a kid do this at Disneyland and it wasn't pretty.

illustration friday - ghost

2006-10-22T17:10:00.000-07:00

New Good Golly Gramma's Got Gas Illustrations

2006-10-15T13:09:00.000-07:00

illustration friday - Safe

2006-09-03T09:25:00.000-07:00

Wow, I didn't realize it's been so long since my last post. it's been a busy summer. I hope you like it.

illustration friday - angels and devils

2006-05-14T18:10:00.000-07:00

Did she or didn't she?

illustration friday - MONSTER

2006-03-25T17:08:00.000-08:00

You gotta face those things that scare you.

illustration friday - feet

2006-03-19T15:02:00.000-08:00

illustration friday - tattoo

2006-03-10T18:04:00.000-08:00

This illustration is titled; "but dad’s name is Fred." It's is from my loss of innocent's series of illustrations.

illustration friday - Song

2006-02-18T20:29:00.000-08:00

Some people were not meant to sing songs out loud.

acrylic on board

My first illustration for 2006

2006-02-02T18:43:00.000-08:00

Finally an update!
Now with the holidays behind me I can get back to what I love most; illustrating.
I got inspired by a sermon by Francis Chan, http://www.cornerstonesimi.com/ , he was talking about how we need to let Jesus drive our car and not just be a passenger in our lives. Hopefully this can inspire someone else to let Jesus drive them.

illustration friday - surprise!

2005-12-09T19:47:00.000-08:00

illustration fridays - BLUE

2005-12-04T20:15:00.000-08:00

Illustration fridays - FREE

2005-11-20T17:52:00.000-08:00

illustration fridays - strength

2005-11-13T18:23:00.000-08:00

illustration fridays - night

2005-11-08T21:10:00.000-08:00

illustration fridays - BROKEN 1

2005-10-28T21:21:00.000-07:00

illustration friday's - COLD

2005-10-16T14:38:00.000-07:00

illustration fridays - LOST

2005-10-09T22:15:00.000-07:00

illustration fridays - float

2005-10-02T17:49:00.000-07:00

float