Telephone Doodle . . .

(c)2005 Ralf Schulze

 . . . that turned out cool! 


It is  Pencil on off-yellow paper Standard size paper (8.5 x 11)

Today I will post many things in order to catch up on my Daily posting... I've been working A LOT and haven't been in the mood to post after an 11 hr day.

So enjoy this glut of stuff!

Self Portrait

(c)1987 Ralf Schulze

A curious image sent from an old friend.  It is of a card I created, just for them.  It is a photocopy of myself  reduced and then enlarged to create the "dotness"  [Copy machines in the 1980's were not Digital in any way.]

Then I  printed an image and colored it with color pencil.

Size is most likely Postcard size (6" x 4") based on the "CA" and "N2" stamps on it.

Art in Progress

all (c) 2011 Ralf Schulze

my art table on 20 May 2011

The Giant Ghost Penis on the Beach

(c)2011 Ralf Schulze

Added india ink and more acrylic paint and decided it is a finished work.  A sketch but finished. Just completed today!  Signed!

It is 8 x 10 inches on store-bought canvas board, and if you like this, name a price unframed!   free shipping.

My Work table In-Process NOW!

(c)2011 Ralf Schulze

I like to work on multiple pieces at a time.  I actually did more to these between taking this photo and posting this blog post!

(c)1987 Ralf Schulze

The next one.

Check out the previous post for more details.

This crap is 25 years old... forgive me.

I currently have been starting to paint and draw more again and hope to have some new finished pieces to post here soon.

 Please be patient.

Thanks you.

It's The Larry The Leper Show!

(c) 1987 Ralf Schulze

The first Larry the Leper comic. Written by Tom Haggerty (whereabouts unknown) based on a character I created. This is the cover of the 8-page (maybe it's 16 pages?!) mini-comic and Mr. Suburbia even told a a story on his first tape about Larry!  click here to listen free!

Mini-comics are 1/4 of a standard sheet of paper (4.25 x 5.5  inches)

Abstract Paint Sketch

(c)2009 Ralf Schulze

This piece is a paint sketch on 12 x12  gray paper.

It bothers me that neither photo is actually true-to-life.

the top one is just a simple flash pic at a slight angle to avoid shine.  The bottom one is a straight on shot with 3 different lights aimed at the piece.  I enhanced both with my ancient pseudo-photoshop program. 

The actual colors of the paint are close to the bottom shot, but the color of the paper is more like the top shot.

(c)2009 Ralf Schulze

Long Landscape

(c)2010 Ralf Schulze

Made this paint sketch in 2009 while hanging with good friend in Charlottesville VA.
It is Acrylic Paint on 10.25" x 20.25" thin Masonite.
It is a landscape completely made up .  No photo, no outdoor view. This photo is a bit blurry.
I tweaked it in 2010. I have it here and it is for sale (make an offer)

Mother Whale Eyeless

(c)1984 Ralf Schulze

This is a small postcard sized collage of mine that inexplicably surfaced in Wyoming.

In the 1980's, making fun of Reagan was all the rage in the left-leaning media, and of course I was sucked into that mindset.

Now I am an unabashed Libertarian Conservative.  But I can still enjoy a good goof!  The detail of the Presidential seal is actually funny.

The Title:"Mother Whale Eyeless" is the title of a GREAT song of the same timeframe  by BRIAN ENO.

Larry the Leper!

(c)1987 Ralf Schulze

Sharpie on slide.  This is currently in Wyoming.  I don't believe it still exists!

Fake Record cover ~ Real Art

(c)2010 Ralf Schulze

Made this collage for a friend (Thomas Ferranti) for his Fake band on Figment called "Smug Fungus". Check it out HERE

Turns out I've done all the cover art for all the Smug Fungus releases!!

Check out Figment.  It a weird Idea: It's got cool album art, wild band names, promo art, liner notes, track titles, etc.   Everything but actual sound!

Here is the whole Smug Fungus catalog! on FIGMENT!

Calendar Page - January

(c)1988, 1992 Ralf Schulze

see this old post for details!

Lost Painting

(c) Ralf Schulze

This is an old scan of an old blurry photograph. I'm guessing it is approx 12 x 18 enamel and acrylic on canvas board. Possibly used sharpie too. 

I really like it. Got that usual Landscape/Abstract feel and some fun patterning and I like the white painted lines.

I don't even know what year I painted it, I'm guessing in the 1990's.  I wish I knew where it was. I seriously doubt that I painted over it.

Alien Sketch

(c)2009 Ralf Schulze

found this tucked away in sketchbook... I like it!  Ink in smooth Bristol 5" x 6" . I've already started coloring (photoshopish)  it for my weird-west-coast-fake-album-cover friend. I'm sure he'll start grooving on it as you oogle it.

My aim was to incorporate a few UNUSUAL  ideas into an alien image (actually a hard aim).  Lemme know what you think!?!!!!

Old Large Abstract Painting . . .

(c)1983 G. Tarjan

. . . that didn't turn out that good.
Sure, I spent hours and hours in class working in this, using painting knives and spray paint and even listening to a walkman so loud that the Teacher "scolded" me about it.

Yes it is approx. 68" x 55.5" oil and spray enamel on stretched canvas.  I'm sure that in the end, I left it in the old painting classroom at stony Brook  No real loss.

My old friend took the b&w photo of me in front of it.

(c)1983 Ralf Schulze

James Ensor

(c)1983 Ralf Schulze

I painted this while in the last year of college.  I am a big fan of Ensor!  He is the greatest skull painter ever!

I just found this rolled up and stashed away up in my Bainbridge NY barn.

It is a large 30" x 46" oil and acrylic on paper.  It is holding up well for it's age.

I searched all over the internet for the original photograph that I used to paint this and it was nowhere to be found!  It was a black and white photo in an art book at the time.  If anyone finds it let me know!

i'm sick

(c)1983 Ralf Schulze

I'm too ill with a bad cold to post a proper post, so you get this:

from sketchbook from1983.

experiment with airbrush + sharpie

College Winter Beach Photo painting

(c)1983 Ralf Schulze

20" x 24" oil on stretched canvas. framed w/ raw pine slats.

Devil in the Details

(c)1985 Ralf Schulze

This is a very recent photo of an old painting.  Taken while up in Bainbridge NY (Easter weekend) at the house I've been trying to sell for less than 70,000 dollars (for the past 3 years!), and I still have a lot of my old art there.   
This is an old favorite.

Oil, and Enamel and Sharpie on stretched canvas and framed with white painted pine slats!

It is 36" x 40"

This one is worth the zoom in to see the cool details!

my Brother's New Family

More than a Year ago my only brother got married. I was the best man, and I had to have a good gift also!  I am living paycheck-to-paycheck, so I decided that I would try to give as much of my talent as possible.

I labored many days on this Family Portrait and actually enjoyed the experience.

This pic is only one of many "in-process" pics I have.
The photo I worked off of is at the bottom right.  I did a sketch study (top left) and my watercolor study (upper middle).

I'll post more in the future!

God Save the Comix!

I made this to promote my comics. Sent it with various mail art and if someone decided to send me actual $ for the comics.

Top left is my character: "Dinky Doo"
Top Right is Ralph Mindicino's character: "Dead Kid"
Bottom left is my character: "Larry the Leper"

The old address is old

8 1/2" x 11" Collage, Stamp, and ink!

Alaska

(c)1982 Ralf Schulze

I went to Alaska with a good friend one summer during my college days.  This is a Painting I did from on of the few photographs I took.

It is of the dirt road I walked everyday returning from work to the campsites I lived at near the Mendenhall Glacier.

I worked at the Brown Bear Cafe in Juneau that summer!

Old tall thing



(c)1984 Ralf Schulze

 Just found this in my old studio.
It's about 20" x 10" and acrylic and sharpie on stretched canvas.

I'll try to get a better pic soon.  The flash on this doesn't do it justice.

Calm Splats

(c)1985 Ralf Schulze

The perfect combination of luck and control to create these splats was so fun! 

And I knew exactly when it was finished!

Oil, acrylic, and enamel spray paint on stretched canvas.  27" x 32"  framed with thin pine slats.

Pivotal Piece

(c)2002 Ralf Schulze

This is a small (9" x 12") sketch painting in canvas board that actually means a lot to me.
After I moved from Richmond VA back up to NY State (basicly between Binghamton and Oneonta) bac in 2002, I had tons of room to  do art because actaul living space was much cheaper there. 
I did this to just experiment with paint again  after many years and some of the experimental decisions were new to what I've done before.  I really like what happened to this.
However, the actual painting got moldy and right now looks like crap.
This is only a 8.5" x 11" scan of it.

DINKY STORIES 1

(c)1986 Ralf Schulze

The cover of my first "mini-comic" DINKY STORIES.

It was a 'Digest' size which means it was a the size of a standard 8.5" x 11" piece if paper folded in half (5.5" x 8.5).

I had fun and made many self published comics between 1986 and 1992.  Check out the old covers  HERE!

Abstract Landscape Thing Again

(c)2003 Ralf Schulze

This one just flowed from me.  Blank mind, but confident. I wish I could do more that way!

It is again a favorite media-set:  watercolor, ink and Prismacolor pencils on thick (off white) watercolor paper!

This is 14" x 20" and it lives right here with me now! 

Any buyers?  Name a price!

Working on my Sculpture 1988

photo: (c)1988 Mik Rezanka

Here I am working on the patina of my bronze sculpture back in 1988.

A Painting

(c)1985 Ralf Schulze

On display at my parent's home on Long Island it is oil, acrylic, and enamel spraypaint on canvas approx. 2 ft. x 3 ft. framed.

This is a terrible picture since where the flash bounced back at the camera is where there is cool details of red drips etc.

Next time I'm up there, I'll take better pics!

FFIZOOM

(C)2008 rALF sCHULZE

Taken from my  Natural/Green Sketchbook.  it is about 6" x 6" made with archival ink marker and primacolor pencil!

FOOLS

(c)1999 Ralf Schulze

ink and water color on 4 x 6 inch watercolor paper

Abstract Acrylic

(c)2010 Ralf Schulze

Another painting that's been kickin' around since 2006, that I add to occasionally .  It's 9 x 11 mounted canvas on plywood.

Sometimes add a bit here and there.  I like it but I can't tell where it's going.
Any Ideas?

this

(c)2004 Ralf schulze

9 x 12 inch
ink, water color, and color pencil on paper.

American Landscape

(c)1984 Ralf Schulze

Another old "just around college graduation" piece.

I like this, because it is a vision of the future of my style.

It is approx 18" x 24" (maybe bigger) on stretched canvas and is Acrylic and oil and enamel spray paint.

I have no idea where this is now.

My Mini-Comic for Mini-Comics Day

So I did a mini-comic for Mini-Comics Day, which was yesterday 9 April 2011!  Here is a short video with me talking about it.  It was more an experiment in design and a fun way to do some abstract drawing.  The title is "Captcha" which is a nickname for when you have to type in the letters you see in an image. It is used for extra security so as to avoid spamming comments etc.  This Blog host (blogger) uses it and they have "Captcha's" that are Almost words. When ever I made a comment to someone's post I wrote down the "captcha" that I had to type.
So this is a collection of my favorite 7.

Click HERE for the Facebook place for Mini-Comics Day and check out many other people's new mini-comics!!

Click THIS for my much more fun expanded version of my mini-comic "CAPTCHA"  in-process Video!!

And the most important is this LINK to my facebook photo album of each page (in black and white)!!!
I did this because it is easy to "flip" through.

Sofa Art

(c)1985 Ralf Schulze

This is acrylic on stretched canvas and hanging over my parent's sofa on Long Island NY.

24" x 36"

Bug Face

(c)2009 Ralf Schulze

Created this at a marathon painting session at the Currier Studios in Charlottesville ! 

Acrylic on 8.5" x11" black paper.

The Fish of Life

(c)2011 Ralf Schulze

A New Art Card!

Started last year with a weird old "watercolor pencil".
then slowly embellished with ink and watercolor.

2.5" x 3.5" is the originally painted size.

This is a theme I've been playng with for a few years.  Finally finished it this evening!

(1-2-2012) gave this to my mother.

Finding Eden

(c)1985 Ralf Schulze

This is one of those old ones where I tried not to make an image anyone could "see" and at the same time experiment with texture and color and media interaction.  It is about 14" x 24" Watercolor ink and color pencil on high quality thick paper.

Abstract Face

(c)2007 Ralf Schulze

I made this on and off from 2005 to 2007.  It is only about 9.5" x 10.5" rough plywood with a thick black acrylic ground base.  Basic image is using a 100+ year old metal door lock flange as a red spray paint stencil.. That created the "face".

I just kept coming back to work on this multiple times.  There are many hours in this in my upstairs barn studio in Bainbridge, While listening to the freight trains loudly rushing past just behind the barn and playing old 78 rpm records on an old tube style 50's Record player!

Apart from the spray paint it is all acrylic.

This scan does not do it justice.  It is on a shelf in my cubicle/office at work.

OLd Art Class Drawing

(c)1982 Ralf Schulze

An old Art class nude drawing. Wax crayon on paper.

22" x25"

Rezanka

(c)1985 Ralf Schulze

Painted this after college (1985) of my good friend, Michal Rezanka

It is oil and acrylic and enamel on stretched canvas.

It is 30" x 36" and is hanging here in my apartment.

The wood slat frame is broken off at the bottom right.

(c)1984 Ralf Schulze

 I found the sketch!  it is pencil on 12" x 16" paper

Art Card

(c) Ralf Schulze

I finished this minutes ago because I had the time. 

Also inspired by my pal Dave Currier in Charlottesville, because he has some small paintings at a gallery there, and I went over to see them and him and his wife and we had a great time catching up.

This is an Art Card Original.

Standard art card size (2.5 in. x 3.5 in.)

Watercolor, ink, and Colorpencil on thick watercolor paper!

Ugly Cartoon Art!

(c)2000 Ralf Schulze

Title: God's In My Eye
Media: Ink and Watercolor on smooth paper
Size: Approx. 6" x 9"