It all started with painting Hot Wheels.
Ray Bishop, current Baldwin Exotic Collection artist extraordinaire, used to steal his mother’s nail polish and give the iconic little cars new paint jobs. If it wasn’t nail polish, it was any other medium he could get his hands on—pencils, crayons, markers, paint, sharpies, etc. And it if wasn’t Hot Wheels, it was model cars or t-shirts.
You get the picture (no pun intended).
“Actually, I used to paint everything I could get my hands on,” Bishop said recently from his home in Grand Bland, Michigan. “I really don’t know where it came from, though my dad used to paint some. But I never dreamed that someday I would be making a decent living from painting.”
Bishop not only does make a decent living at it, he has slowly but surely built an international reputation as one the world’s leading graphic artists.