The Art Card Window

I recently made a card-stock piece with a rectangular hole cut out, so I can view old, busy, unfinished works to turn into art cards.  Then I just mark the image with a pencil.  
Look!  I have 10 new starts of Art cards and they are all originals!
And the scrap from around them can be used in collage and Mail art!
Recycling never looked so good!  If you know how to see the smaller images larger, you will notice that I have "outlined" ten potential new art cards on the 3 images!!

the "art card window" in action!

Young Art Teacher's Wreck Book 1

1985
sent this to pal who was working as a substitute art teacher in 1985.  They were tough times.  just like these days.
Thanks Bill for sending this back for me to post!

Pure cut and paste / collage style stuff.  A wonderful thing of the past.
Let me know if you find the vintage BattleStar Gallactica sticker hidden in this series!

Monstrous Mail Art

cool new mail art envelope..... who wants to be the recipient? Reply on Blogspot/blogger comments or Facebook or email me at aardvarkf@yahoo.com with a good reason and I will send it to you filled with odd ephemera.  My choice,so don't complain. I will make more envelope art!!!

Another Mail art Envelope art!

Another ink and color pencil envelope art / mail-art this time for old pal Clare Dee who was the person who introduced me to mail-art!  Thanks Clare!  Hope you like the contents!

Mail Art (the back of the envelope)

I made and sent a little mail art envelope to my old pal Hal Weaver.  He posted the front here.
But this is the back.
Bremerhaven is the city I was born in.

more original Christmas cards to fill the posts until I FINISH some new art.

 Three more original Christmas cards that I made a few years ago.
Tomorrow I'll be caught up!

 gave this one "Cheers!" to Amy at work.

Gave the Shopper with the green hat - "christmas" to Brooke at work!

Playing Ketchup in the "post-every-other-day" Game -Merry Christmas Past

 Using 1940's magazine cut outs on black card stock with some acrylic paint, color pencils, ink and stickers, I made a batch of fun Christmas card "Originals" a few years back.
Here are three in the set of semi-pin-up adverts. WITH SILLY LONG SANTA HATS!

Okay!  Keeping up with the posts.

I've joined a Meetup for Aspiring Artists of Richmond  and hope this helps get my creativity going!  Also plan to do more Mail Art!  

Another Art Book created from old 78rpm Album: "Rombas'

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Here is the other one (so far):  It is the same scenario as the previous post and even the same # of pages!

We really had good fun doing these.  It is great to see these in the bright light of day after being in Dave's C'ville barn for a few years!  The albums are 10.5" tall by 12" wide.  Enjoy!

 

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Art Book created from old 78rpm Album: "My Way" Collaboration with Dave Currier

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For the past 6+ years that I've been back n Richmond VA, I've been occasionally driving to C'ville  to make art with my good friend Dave Currier.  I had these old 78 rpm "Albums" that were very popular in their time (1920s-1940s), and they aren't worth anything on ebay. So I trashed the fragile 78 records and we used the cardboard "album" to start art-books (yes there are more than just this one).  Just look through it and enjoy!  We usually worked on our own stuff while sharing Music and other mood altering stuff.  These were worked on with whatever media we were working with on our own work or if you needed to step away from your own work.  Fun and wide open to changing and manipulating each others work.

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Alternate Realities

(c)1985 Ralf Schulze

This one is old but I remember that it just flowed out of me!

It is India ink, water color, and collage on paper. The only collage item is the red and white "wallpaper" on the left.

15 in. x 22 in.

For sale.  Make an offer if you want to.

Bob Ross

(c)2011 Ralf Schulze

Just before I went to visit my pal Dave Currier in C'ville last Saturday (a 1.5 hr drive) I was flipping thru channels on TV and came across Bob Ross doing a classic Lake  in the Mountains with Pine trees. 

Anyway, I don't know if it influenced anything but I kept saying "Bob Ross" just for the Hell of it and Dave Wrote down Bob Ross and I made this collage and acrylic thing on Green 8.5" x11" paper.

New Changes to This Art Blog of Mine!

Thanks for Looking at my revamped artblog.  For more than 4 1/2 months I've been pretty good at posting a piece of my art every day.  It has been fun and a challenge too. 

This will still be a place for me to post only my art.  But I can't do it every day anymore.  My work schedule and time constraints have increased lately and I will now just try to post 3 posts per week.

But there are a few cool changes to the blog:

• If you scroll down on the right you can signup to get an email every time I post something new!
• Near that, there is a video thing where you can watch my youTube videos.

I hope that you will keep looking at my stuff.  I do not make a living off my art, but if you are interested in
anything you see and want to make an offer, please don't hesitate!

(c)2011 Ralf Schulze

This is a "mash-up" of two of my images, that seemed to go together!
One of the images is the previous post!

Abstracted Nude Two

(c)1985 Ralf Schulze

(c)1985 Ralf Schulze

Yellow Ochre Collage Study

(c)2011 Ralf Schulze

This is a fun study of similar color with various texture collage. approx 5 x 7 .

It is just horizontal strips of mag cuts (4).

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.

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!

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!

I took an Old Video I made and Had fun with it!!!!!!

I took the old Homina Solidworks video and added footage and reversed the sound, etc.

It is just as stupid and inane and dumb as the original and I hope you get a laugh or at least a giggle from it.
I made it just for pure fun for me.  ENJOY!

Another Bearded Guys find...

(c) 1983 Ralf Schulze

I just found this within PC files within PC files from the past.
the image is from a scanned photo.  the scan was made in 2007. I never bothered cropping it and I am sure I have the original bad photo somewhere.
If my old brain serves me, the painting is oil, acrylic, and enamel on canvas and even framed (with painted-black wood slats).  Easily 18" x 24" but possibly bigger.  I wish I had it to take a better photo.  Oh well.
near the center as a background landscape, I collaged a nude on paper that I did!

Brand New video: "Spooky Crap"

I'm trying to sort through all the crap on my PC and I saved multiple folders of files from older PCs and found a bunch of GIF mini animation files that I saved 6 or 7 years ago.  A lot of them with a skeleton and sci-fi theme.

So I put this video together on Movie maker. Took about 1 1/2 hrs. 

It ain't Halloween but what the hell!