Hellish Joy

(c)2019

 the usual media 4 x 6 postcard!

Postcard

 Ink and color pencil on 6 x 4 bristol board

odd little sketch thing

(c) Ralf Schulze

curious sketch on kraft card stock approx 4,5 x 6,5

acrylic, red ink , white gel pen, graphite pencil.

The Belly of Madness

(c) Ralf Schulze

new small work finished yesterday.  usual media Approx 4 x 6.

Skull ACEO

(c) Ralf Schulze

One of the art cards in a big batch started in April.       Really didn't do anything else to this.
ACEO is "Art Cards, Editions & Originals". The size is only 2.5" x 3.5" (same size as a baseball card!)  Mine are always originals.

This is only watercolor and ink on thick watercolor paper.

Style

(c) Ralf Schulze

approx 5 x 7 ink and color pencil on acid-free kraft card stock.

Art Card: "Careful"

(c) Ralf Schulze

Another art card.  Watercolor, ink and color pencil on thick watercolor paper.
Sent to friend down south.

Eyes and Lobes and . . .

(c) Ralf Schulze

pencil on paper.
approx 5" x 7"

bizzaro face

2016

Mr. Suburbia Sticker!

Found this recently while digging thru all the crap that I never throw out.
this is only like 1" x 1.25" hand-cut (that sounds: Fancy).
 I am sure the sticky-ness is worn out since 1990 or so.  But still love that copy machine look (which was made by re-copying over a few times).

Rudimentary Plastic Skull Cutouts

I worked at a Plastic ThermoForming  company on and off in upstate NY for a few years and the second best take-away from there was a bunch of these 1/4" high plates, 1/8th" thick black cut-outs, in the basic shape of a skull.

I scarfed up a very small load of them then.

I painted white acrylic on them back in 2005 or 2006.
I still have them and here is the 1st of them.  This the "inside of the plate painting"
showing the "haircell" texture.

A Photo of Friends

painted over painting

I recently found the last two sketches of my friends and I from 1988 or so.  Of course the sketches transformed them into comic characters!

Fun stuff!
All the drawings are on 14 x 17 sketch paper.
I even started a painting back then based on this photo, but got frustrated and painted it over with something else.
I just found the scan of the old photograph of the painting I painted over!

Earth Cake (Yellow)

(c)2015 Ralf Schulze

this,along with the blue version (last post) were finished on March 31st.  Just been busy with Life...

Spring Waves

(c)2015 Ralf Schulze

Gearing up to Grow!
Just finished this last night.  I went with the flow, Let the "face" shapes happen.  Color pencil and ink marker on 4 x 5.5 inch kraft card stock (acid free)

Dinky Doo Finisher - New Bit

(c)1986 Ralf Schulze

Another Dinky stories page.   I love how nearly spontaneous this looks, yet I am sure I stressed a little over some of the details.

All good.  I've got new ideas in mind,
So don't think I'm just filling this blog up with old minicomix pages - day-by-day.

They are good filler - since I can only post my art.

had some hardish times lately  that kept me away from art; with power out on Sunday the 15th and work stress during most of the week and then frozen pipes recently...

Dinky the "doo"

(c)1986 Ralf Schulze

Back cover of "Dinky Stories #2"
I did some playful "blind" drawings of my characters back then in 1986.
This i did with my eyes closed and then added the circle and outlining and cross-hatching.
Purely for fun.

Stupid Stamp Strip

(c) 1986 Ralf Schulze

This is from my minicomic, Dinky Stories #2.  Three carved rubber-stamps and some word balloons! (with subtle embellishments)
I was 26 years old and this was my sense of humor then. 
I still think it is funny.
The last panel is a rubber stamp of Dinky Doo, the "poortagonist" of the minicomic.

Bowl Man Cast Bronze

(c)1991 Ralf Schulze

Made this little guy many years ago!  While I worked at a small Bronze art Foundry shop in Brewster NY, they had a Christmas Holiday contest most every year to make a small edition (the size of the # of employees).  The only rule was to keep it within approx 3" cubed.   I won the contest in 1991 and about 15 people got one of these tiny little three legged bowl guys. 
The bowl is about 2.25" diameter, but with the added  "Hand"les, he is about 4.25" wide.  He is only 2" tall.  I created him originally in wax (not my favorite media - since i worked in the metal end of the bronze sculpture process) and he turned out fine! In the last pic you might see my name "RALF" on the back leg.
This is my only cast bronze sculpture!  All my others are welded or brazed together by me.

"Bug Eye Guy" Welded Bronze Sculpture

(c)1988 Ralf Schulze

Made this sculpture in 1988 from bronze casting scraps and an old Baush & Lomb eye testing machine part.
He's about 12 inches tall, 10 inches wide and 14 inches long.
His right "eye" is adjustable... it can rotate (see last three pics)
I just took these photographs today.

Another shot.

Old Ink & Watercolor that really never jelled

(c) Ralf Schulze

This 4" x 6" piece has been kicking around for 20 years and every once in a while I would do a little something to it and never be be quite satisfied with the results. 
 I think I added a little color pencil a couple of years ago.

I used real India Ink with a dip / quill type pen for the initial outlines.

it is on very thick watercolor paper.

Maybe I'll send it to a friend as an actual postcard Soon!