Ratchet Raven

04/13/2025

April Showers bring New Shows

Hey there Sports Fans, Al here with the latest: So, the beginning of April started off to a crazy start for me, as another of my pieces sold within the first week of being up. I've been pretty fortunate to have such a quick turnaround for the shows that I have been in.

10/02/2024

Stuff with artwork has been a little slow as far as shows go. Not to fear though, work is still going strong. But when commissions and other sales like t-shirts come up, that makes me feel pretty damn good.😃

08/24/2024

www.blackboxvisualarts.com/blog/2024/8/23/during-vacation
What I've been doing during vacation.

Hey, there sports fans, Al here with the latest: It was just gonna be a short entry because I’ve been on vacation for like the last two weeks but at that time is not been unproductive. I’ve been able to work on trying to complete a bunch of 8” x 8” Scratchboard pieces that is ready for anoth...

08/05/2024

www.blackboxvisualarts.com/blog/2024/8/5/blue-dog-group
Pins and Shirts, oh my.

Hey there, sports fans, Al here with the latest; It’s been a while since I have added a blog to the webpage but I figured I should probably do something because I’ve been so stuck doing artwork of recent times that I haven’t been able to spend a lot of time talking about our new productions on...

04/01/2024

There was a time that April 1st always included a move of some kind. Maybe it's time to make more art.

03/20/2024

www.blackboxvisualarts.com/blog/2024/3/20/revelation

I making prints now; I've always known about this. My ex-girlfriend Beth and I had talked about this for years, and she had been working on that process for a long time. How to sell other works in tandem with a passive revenue stream from T-shirts, posters, and prints based upon original pieces of w

03/03/2024

www.blackboxvisualarts.com/blog/2024/3/3/talks-show-and-revelations

The biggest thing that my friend also pointed out to me at the show was that they were the other artist I didn’t see there at the opening I was the only one there In the process also was how the artwork stood out from the others on the wall know this was his description not mine. But black and whi...

03/03/2024

Man, when you open boxes you can find a treasure trove of stuff that still needs to be mounted and varnished. And I've still got more ideas to knock out. Woot!

06/05/2023

www.blackboxvisualarts.com/blog/2023/6/4/lyfzamg5fhvgbzr1d8tcdw9mx0asoy
What's been going on?

Hey there, sports fans, Al here with the latest: Well, I have tried posting something new in the last month, but nothing happened to stick to landing. That is until I decided to take a staycation to work on artwork that had been sorely overlooked and neglected due to moving and other living things.

04/07/2023

www.blackboxvisualarts.com/blog/2023/4/6/on-the-horzion
New Art, Future shows, and commissions!

Hey there, sports fans, Al here with the latest; Well, I wanted to keep you all in the loop. I've already shared some of this with you in the previous blog, but I wanted to bring up the latest piece with you regarding the poster design for the Pasquinade Project. Regarding how pieces of artwork are

03/27/2023

www.blackboxvisualarts.com/blog/2023/3/27/commissions-coming-out-of-the-woodwork
New Art, Commissions, and Art Shows.

Hey there, sports fans, Al here with the latest: It's been a while since I've had to post anything about commissions, but I recently had a couple of them come in very short succession, so I decided to post those right now. Because I’ve been bitten by the commission bug! I switched over to a diffe

08/16/2022

More art to come.

Blast Off! Large scale piece 18”x24”. Hope to have this one done soon.