TIPS HIS HAT TO

Incorporated from Ulf's BLUE HANKY - 2002

ULF  2000 ~ 2001

The genius of Poser rendering.

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ULF RAYNOR

Birth date: February 16th

AQUARIUS

A Few Words from The Man

I'm a man of few words, 'cause I can't type or spell for shit, .....oh and I'm lazy.   ; )

I guess I am kinda private, tho probably more comparable to a hermit since I live in the middle of nowhere. I don't live in a city, hell, don't even have a street address, just a rural box number.
 

My home is in West Virginia, rather close to Morgantown. (West Virginia University) I was born in Portsmouth Naval hospital in Virginia, raised in the military.  My father was a photographer for the US Navy. Which is why ya never see me do artwork with guy's in Naval uniforms, they are a total turn off for me.

I grew up with a pencil in my hand, drawing everything I saw on TV and in comic books. Started doing paintings in my early teens, took a year and a half of art in college, quit because I thought it was a complete waste of time and money (which I didn't have) started doing computer generated art in 1999, got my first version of Poser (version 4) in 2000.
 

As for personal info...
I'd say, I was a typical kinda guy; meaning, I like sex, beer and heavy metal.
I grew up playing guitar in heavy metal bands.

I'm currently 6', 190 pounds (a little on the hairy side)
Anything else anyone wants to know, they just have to ask.
 

Then I asked Ulf a few questions and he was very kind enough to send his replies.

Hi Ulf!

Well, thank you for the good words. I'm glad you liked the slide shows. (Dangerous Marine and Buddy System) And thanks for sending some of your bio, I really like the way you put things and would just as soon add it just as you worded it.

Hope that works for you! And I hope I was correct in assuming that this image (the head shot above) is your self-portrait? It looks like an oil painting. Yes?

Nah, don't mind at all, post away and yup, that be a portrait of me I did about a year ago (maybe a little more). I used a program called Painter, it's just like real time painting, love the crap out of it, even use it for post work on my Poser renders.
 

I love those eyes!! Have you ever used yourself in any particular posers you've done?

I've never used myself in my artwork, other than the exaggerated use of my imagination in each situation. Do I do everything I depict...nah, but its still the stuff of my fantasies.

As to the typical kinda guy, I'm with you all the way on the sex and beer, but my music needs are more to the quieter sounds, blues, jazz, light rock, and having been an actor for over 35 years, I enjoy operatic and Broadway music as well.

I do like other forms of music other than heavy metal, blues being part of it and yes even classical. Basically, if it's played well I can enjoy it. Nuthin' beats a full orchestra live, never fails to send chills down my spine.

I've often told folks, the day I see some cutie walking down the street wearing a T-shirt with one of my pics on it, would be the day I stop making pics.  (It's good to have goals!)

Ulf ~

NEW

ULF INTERVIEW

October, 2009

A Few Words from Daddy

I've  become such a total fan of this man's artistic abilities that I've decided to create pages to Daddy's site with many of my favorite examples of ULF's work! I'll add more as it expands, and I'm sure it will!

This journey is not an effort to obtain Ulf's entire collection of his works, but renders that I found particularly arousing, artistic or just plain fascinating!

And, even with that, there are so many that I've had to expand his exhibit to now, fourteen, separate pages! I hope you all enjoy your journey through this amazing man's work!

These pages were made possible even more so by the efforts of Tony Coglianese and Frank Willers from Ulfianfanclub for sharing a multitude of their individual and collective ULF works, which have been added to this site...

...and with the permission of the artist, Ulf!

If you're a fan of ULF and want to have his work delivered to your email address!

Join Yahoo's Ulfianfanclub

M.Ray

ARTISTIC FANS OF ULF

Among Ulf's numerous admirers, are his artistic compatriots. Recently another render artist, *Angela Knight, whose work I also admire, wrote to the Ulfianfanclub a wonderful letter of recognition regarding Ulf. She has given me permission to place her letter at my site. It is copy/pasted just as she has written it, with no editorializing on my part. Enjoy!

At the risk of inflating Ulf's head...

I've been thinking about his work a lot lately. And since I am currently high on Lyrica, I can fearlessly speak what passes for my mind. (They increased my dose from 75 mg to 150, which is thoroughly delightful. I am no longer being ambushed by zaps of pain, rather like having one's spine suddenly chewed by a giant rabid ferret. Being pain free is a high all by itself.)

Ulf may never get the critical praise he deserves because his work is erotic, and anything to do with sex in this country is automatically discounted. But there is a dark elegance to his work, even the most nakedly erotic. (In all senses of that word.) He looks at sex, at what we consider erotic. His men are hyper masculine to the point that many of them bypass the male beauty often depicted by gay artists like Tom O'Finland. They have battered faces, like prize fighters who have spent too much time in the ring. Yet they are erotic and there is a kind of beauty in the bulk of straining, sweat-streaked muscle.

Then sometimes he plays with the kind of Marine Corps recruiting poster beauty, showing the raw sexuality lurking below flawlessly pressed dress uniform pants.

We are lucky to get a chance to see Ulf's artwork. I would like to hope eventually people will see the art in it that is so vivid despite the raw sexuality of it. In my art school classes, they said that art was communication, which meant that the act of creating something made it art, even if it was only a basketball sealed in acrylic. Surely Ulf's work is art, because it does what art is supposed to do. It touches us -- not like that, Ulf -- and makes us think. And that's art. 

*Angela Knight is a noted Romance/Adventure writer who has a home page at http://www.angelasknights.com. She is also a talented render artist and contributes many of her terrific works to Ulf's online group, http://groups.yahoo.com/group/gayposerart/ .

If there are other artist fans of Ulf's who wish to give Ulf his due, please write to me - daddyshere@gmail.com - and I'll add your letter to the page. If I get many request, I'll create a new page of Ulf Dedications.

There are numerous other branches of Ulfianfanclub with loads of stored images as well.

Gay Poser Art

(Click here to join this Yahoo Group.

You'll find ULF's renders and those of many other  excellent render artists' work!)

SAY WHEN

(Animated)

Full-sized, non-animated image of "Say When" can be found at Ulf -2004)

ALL COMFY

(not the full sized image)

Don't torture yourself!

Click on the thumbnails to see full size image.

Click the thumbnail to download ALL COMFY - full size

(Just right click on any image and save to your computer in the folder of your choice!)

GOT IT?

Now you can do the same thing with all the others as you wish!

0000

The following have no identifying dates on them. As I get evidence of when they came out, I'll replace them accordingly!

FATES

The transparent gifs on these pages are NOT the original full sized images! Click on the thumbnails BELOW the gif to see the original, full sized image.

FEED ME, SIR

2000

FINAL WORD

OLYMPIAN

MOMENT

MOON AND STARS

WHERE'S THAT MICHAEL

2001

TRUCK STOP TRAMPS - SERIES

Thanks, Tony at Ulfianfanclub for organizing this series!

LAST CALL

TAKE IT!

Into the Woods (2 sizes)

INDIAN TORTURE

Gym Buddies - Just a Taste

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ULF BIRTHDAY ~ FEBRUARY 16, 2008

Incorporated from Ulf's BLUE HANKY - 2002