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Raymond Alvarez Art Collections

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Artwork by Raymond Alvarez

Each image may be purchased as a canvas print, framed print, metal print, and more! Every purchase comes with a 30-day money-back guarantee.

About Raymond Alvarez

Raymond Alvarez My heart never left my early days of discovery. My hands pull forth a melange of memory and imagination stirred by inspiration. Twenty years ago I took more art training, this time attending an electronic arts school in San Francisco. Originally, I studied fine art at Metropolitan State University in Denver. A few more courses at the University of Northern Colorado followed. But I went on to a career in journalism, where to my great fortune my love of art and culture would grow. New Mexico would be my first stop for my career. I roamed far for stories and photos. I worked in charcoal and pencil occasionally dabbling in watercolor. I prefer acrylic colors and sometimes the subtlety of watercolor. These days, I create digital art employing powerful software called Photoshop. My art draws on a rich repository of memories imprinted on a young mind that loved the vistas spread before my young eyes. A palette of colors streamed by as my family moved from the Great Lakes to California. My early thoughts about who I am began with memories of Grandma, a woman of small stature with a ready smile. She sometimes called me "Little Joe." Grandma was born in Mexico. She is half Tarascan. I have learned the barely mentioned Tarascan were a formidable foe to the Aztecs. The Tarascans built an empire in Western Mesoamerica in an area that is now Michoacan. Marta was brought by husband Jesse to a small town in South Texas. Eventually, she and a family of six would move to a two-bedroom home, a stone's throw from the Catholic church. Her home was a low wooden frame and tile house under a huge oak tree that would provide roosts for her chickens. A garden filled with tall corn in late summer was harvested. In my mind's eye, I still see aunts Lupe, Hope and Mary tugging on corn husks preparing to make stacks of fabulously tasty tamales for a church fundraiser. Grandma once stuck a chicken feather in my hair and giggled. Was this an initiation into her tribe? Many years later, an aunt told me grandma made her daughters all learn Tarascan dances. My aunt declined to dance for me. To this day, I am beguiled by the Southwest. I write and create art here on the side of a hill in Longmont, Colorado where I live with my wife Susan.