Introducing Rafi (Raphael Perez)

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This week's featured artist:

Rafi (Raphael Perez) http://www.gaypaintings.com/ 

For my last two posting on “It’s Raining Men”, I’ve featured the artwork of the prolific and unusual Israeli Artist, Raphael Perez, also known as Rafi. His image  

has become the “mascot” of my Project to collect stories for a an anthology to raise money to support marriage equality, currently in New York State. 

       When I approached Rafi through his deviant Art page at http://shharc.deviantart.com/  to be include his work in our Blogs, he was so enthusiastic to participate that he emailed me dozens of pieces of his art, as well as a collection of  interesting photos.

        Some of his pieces show that Rafael Perez is a classically trained painter, with stunning images full of reality. But his main style is what he refers to as “naïve”, but I call “graffiti style”, living in New York where these sorts of images pop up on walls like mushrooms.

        Today I am including a combination of his works in both styles as an introduction. 

        I hope you love them like I do.

"Kiss My Ass"

Next week: Rafi photos.