Fun & Games with your Internal Organs!

This is a double scan of an old comic I did for a Glossy Humor magazine Start-up (from 1988) called "Anything but Monday". Together this was one page sized Like Time magazine.  "Anything but Monday" was created by Frank Nora and his friend and it lasted maybe 6 issues.
Frank Nora's mind runs non-stop and he found his calling doing a daily radio/web cast from NYC.

The Frank Nora Show!

check it out!!!!

Photo vs Scanner vs Real Life

Okay, so I thought I'd get into how I turn my Actual Painted objects into a digital entity. A very contentious topic, but I'm going to be flippant, obvious and selfish.  I took various pictures of this painting "Poppies" that is actually 9" x 10.75" (my scanner bed is 8.5" x 11.75" and I don't think it can actually scan the full 11.75").
So the scanner cuts off 1/2"  I also have a HP Photsmart E427 that cost me $70 about 4 years ago. (It does max 6megapixels).  I tried it in various lighting and camera settings but mostly the lighting was flourescent and dim and I used flash and One even has the camera flash covered with a paper card.
First is the scanner. and the rest are what they are! I find it funny How different thesame picture can look!

By the way, the painting is Collage and Acylic on wood that I created in 2006.

"Poppies" (c)2006 Ralf Schulze

Monoko

monoko from Yume-Nikki screenshot

So, My daughter is really into web-comics and related online video games and she asked me to draw this character, "Monoko" she is a mutant girl who is always in the dark and rarely seen and has a hole in her body. Don't ask me the details.
Anyway I decided to give it a try and paint it on one of the 8" x 10" canvas boards.

So here is mine so far.  I've done more since this scan but It's not quite ready for either a finished scan or another "in-process" scan.

Triptych Mess

(c)Ralf Schulze

More fun at the painting table!
This is wide open!  created due to surplus paint of colors I like.  I am thinking: 1. Mr. Suburbia; 2. ACEO art card set.
This is pencil and acrylic (so far) on 5" x 11" gray paper.And I do not consider this finished!

Hey, did anyone notice the baby poop glaze?

another Ugly Comix Art

Knifing Baby-poop

This is only a start.

I bought a pack of 8 in. x 10 in. canvas boards very recently and on this one I used a painting knife to lay down the pink left-over paint.  Then a couple of days later painted the baby-poop color glaze and then knifed that a bit too.  I like the results but don't know where to go from here.
Just messing with it!!!

Red Spiral Thing

Here is another where the painting is 12 x 12, but my scanner bed is only 9 x 12.  Either way you may have noticed this image in the previous post.  I've painted it since. Today.
Anyway it is acrylic paint, color pencil on black paper.

My Painting table!

Here is 2 shots of my table where I've been painting on a small scale.
I like working on these.  I have probably 10 works "in-process" at a time.  I would mix a color for one painting, know what I would do with it, then with the left over paint, see what I can do with that color on other works.  I would add colors to the mix, or even start a new painting!  Lately I've been doing about 1 hr of painting daily.  And that's after a full 9-10 hour workday.

An Abstract Story-Picture

This one is from 1985 and is one of my favorite in the style of "trying to make an abstract where I can't pin a known image-idea to".  In other words, Pure abstraction with absolutely no connection to reality except the paint on the surface.  I succeeded to me, but I am sure YOU can see things in it.
The only thing I see in it is a composition similar to a narrative painting, without the narrative.
It is 23 1/2 in. x 18 in. Watercolor, Ink and Prismacolor Pencil on Watercolor paper.

Mantis-like Paint-sketch

I did this last year. It is pencil and acrylic paint on dark gray paper.  Original is on 12 in x 12 in but my scanner bed is only 9 in x 12 in.
It is fun and quick and I did it at my good friend Dave Currier's Studio over in Charlottesville VA.

Check out his artistic sculptural services at Currier Studios on my "links I like" list!

Color Doodle

Kind of a Doodle.  Ink and watercolor on  6in x 6in Bristol board

THE FOOLS are Mr Suburbia and Me

Much of this was recorded in Mr. Suburbia's Monster Club Cellar on December 31st 2010. Please comment either here or on youtube!

The Smoker

He's Solid Welded bronze. about 2 feet tall and weighs approximately 25 lbs.

He is Happily hanging out in Charlottesville Virginia near the entrance of a good friend's art studio!

HAPY

A fun goof with 3 different color sharpies on glossy Aqua paper and then slightly tweaked digitally. Approx 5 x 7.

Fun Short Mr. Suburbia Cartoon!!

I made it 4 or so months ago on GoAnimate. 
Finally got back to it to tweek it and put it on youtube!
There is an earlier post of this direct to the GoAnimate site. but the Youtube quality is much much better!!

02 February 2011

36 in. x 36 in. acrylic and enamel from 1985.

The Old Bearded Guys

Another Pen and Ink.  Back during college. Approx. 12 in. x 18 in. framed and underglass at my Parents home on Long Island.  It is based on an old old "master" but I forgot what or who.

YING-YANG Doppelganger Illustration

I remember having fun with this one!  Pure pen and ink on 9 x 12  paper.  [the left side has Zip-a-tone]

(c)1990

Two new Collage

Did these at about the same time 2 weeks ago. Both approx. 4 in. x 6 in.

Just having fun; and using the "three" rule!

That's all the collage for a while...

One of my oldest Collage cards

This one has some black spray paint in background on 10.5 in. x 5.5 in. mat board.  It is from 1981!

Finally a New Collage

I've had an idea for years about collage.
The simpler the better.  So I often thought that
3 is a charm / Bad things come in threes.
You decide.  But I figure no middle ground :
Very Good -or- Very Bad.

 this on is 14 x 19 mm on black paper and I did it 11 days ago.  (3 parts-- face; time lapse; eye)





I also believe that collage should never be cut from a printout from the internet... That's cheating!

... another college-collage

Here is another old Collage. The one on the left is the Original. the one on the right is a negative.
I like both.

Collage, color pencil and sharpie on a silverish cardstock approx 4 x 7 inches

An old Collage from college

Found this while going through old crap. Inspired me to do more and have a small stash ready for future posts.
Especially since I'm inspired to post every day like my pal Hal. This is his blog!

"Primary Abstract" New ACEO

Created this one in a slightly different way.
Started out with larger sheet of 246 lbs acid-free paper and trimmed it to the 2.5" x 3.5" when it was done. Ink and Watercolor.

Thinking Halloween but . . . .

. . . . need to do Christmassy stuff

Another New ACEO based on Sculpture

another new ACEO ink and watercolor
Based on an old 5 inch x 7 inch relief bronze plaque I created in 1991

Hayseed

An old 4 x 6 ink and watercolor from 2001

Floating Polyps

This is a very new colored pencil on bristol paper (6 inches x 6 inches)
It is an alien landscape of growing bubbles or polyps near a liquid shore.
I sent the trimmed original to a friend as a mix CD cover! top picture

Yet another semi-abstract ACEO

This one just happened.
When I originally drew it, I knew exactly what colors were needed.

remember: ACEO is "Art Cards Editions & Originals" and the only rule is:
2.5 inches x 3.5 inches (the same size as a baseball card)

BOOK, BULB, BOTTLE and BRUSH

I made this way back in college days. 1982 I was very interested in Philip Guston's work and especially his changes in style. To me he was like the David Bowie of fine art. I painted this on paper 46 inches x 62 inches (Approx 4 feet x 5 feet) with acrylicl gesso and cheap tempera paints. I signed it " Ralf Guston"
What a weirdo. I haven't tried to search yet, but I believe this is based on one of his actual paintings, probably titled; "Book, Bulb, Bottle and Brush"

Another Abstract ACEO

(c)2010 Ralf Schulze

This started out as a test paper for the watercolor for my older ACEOs (scroll down!) but when I showed the actual Set of ACEOs to my friends, they really liked this one. I added to it since then: additional ink and color pencil but the original watercolor is still there.
(1-2-2012) Gave this to my Mother!

All Fired Up!

my newest cartoon!

FOOD of the GODS

Just created this ACEO (baseball card sized) drawing today! Ink and watercolor.

NO EGGS FOR BREAKFAST

Here is newest (couple of weeks old now) Mr. Suburbia cartoon. All sounds by Mr. Suburbia. cartoon by me using Go!Animate:


GoAnimate.com: no eggs for breakfast by Aardvark Farmer


Like it? Create your own at GoAnimate.com. It's free and fun!

A fun little artistic history of mine.

The Original big dry pastel work is approx 9 ft x 6 ft (3 meters x 2 meters). I did it in college (1982) on grey theater backdrop paper. I wish I knew where it was now. I showed it in my first solo show on campus at the Student Union Gallery at Stony Brook (that's where the photo of Mik Rez and I was taken).
From that photo (probably in 1983) I drew the picture (image is 10 in. x 13 in.) using india ink, prismacolor pencil highlights and (originally) black marker which has faded through the years showing pinkish/orange/yellow tints...
I just found the drawing a few days ago and had to make 2 scans and meld them together on the computer. Comments welcome!