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!

Mr.Suburbia 3D Model Solidworks

About 4 years ago when we started using Solidworks at my job, I played with it to create a Mr. Suburbia Head.
Took a few lunch hours to get it right.
I featured a video of it in a video back then. 

Click Here to Check out the video

Great In-process art from September 2014

Made new "paint"on paper to work on for the future back in September 2014.
cool stuff and fun times.
Thanks Dave!

Versions of Variables

(c)2015 Ralf Schulze

This is on kraft-colored acid free card stock.  Only 5.5" x 4" and I worked on this last night and this evening! 
Ink and color pencil.
Essentially a study in Black, white and sepia tones.
I had fun and let things just flow!

My First ACEO / Art Card / Sketch Card Revisited - kind of...

(c)2010 Ralf Schulze

This is a digitally colored image of my very first Art Card (baseball card sized [2.5" x 3.5"])

Please check out the post of the actual card that I hand colored with watercolor back in 2010, here.

Please check it out! click this now!

I manipulated it back in 2010 and  didn't have any fancy digital image manipulation software then and I still refuse to buy anything like that.  I use Gimp (open source) and  Corel Painter Essentials 4 if I really need to do some semi-high-tech stuff. 
I'm old-school and prefer to hand color stuff!
What i do like about the generally recent technology is the ability to scan or photograph so cheaply and have the "process" available to view!

Dark-Lite

(c)2015Ralf Schulze

New art
Only 4" x 6" (postcard-size)
ink and color pencil.
 some "spots' are part of the paper...

Another Video: The C Words

Another Video from the same day as the previous post!
So this post makes me even on the every-other day art post (I prefer odd # days)

Video: The C-word

Shot this video while walking around Stony Brook University this past summer.  Some videos ended up on youtube but this one is so short and weird...
I actually put this up on a little "Art-share" site I like FeedForward.  You should check it out.
Don't forget to turn on the sound. This is kid-friendly, really.

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!  

Post: Every-Other-Day 2015

Happy New year to all and welcome to my new-years-resolution-style-posting-rules:

Okay, On a whim I decided to post something every other day this year in response to my pal, Hal Weaver's vow to post an Image-a-Day!  there is a slight difference and I think I have a disadvantage, but that;s okay.
Hal will post an image a day.
My blog was started and continues to be only My art (old and New).  But now with a slightly new challenge of posting something every other day!  This is really good to get my creative juices going, so I sat down and started and continued some works in progress for a couple of hours.  But I did not finish anything. not to worry.

  So I will post some of my Illustrated Christmas Cards of the past to fill this initial void.

My apologies to anyone who is sick of Christmas stuff.... I don't care . . .  I don't have may folks looking at this blog.  It is mostly to get me to make more art and get it out there!


So, here is a rubber stamp I carved of Frosty the Snowman gone Fishing.  I did it on one of those silly "BigMistake" erasers you could buy for $1 in the 1990's.   It's about 4.5" tall and I added some fish on the sides using a rolling stamp I bought!  I sent a bunch of these out to friends, back in 1995 (+/-2 years) as postcards for Christmas!

approx (c)1995 Ralf Schulze

My Illustrated Christmas Cards!

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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Richmond Zine Fest Sketches!

(c) Ralf Schulze 2014

(c) Ralf Schulze 2014

(c) Ralf Schulze 2014

Some Doodlings I did while at the Richmond Zine Fest Saturday, Oct. 4, 2014.
maybe I will embellish and complete them into full-blown Sketches, or even Drawings.
What's the rule? 
What's the definition of Doodle, Sketch, and DRawing compared to each other?   Is there some sort of standard?
I don't know.  But I know I had fun at the Zine Fest!
Any photo's of me at the Zine fest, let me know. My camera had dead batteries (my usual luck)...

Richmond Zinefest!

I will have a table at the Richmond ZineFest On Saturday October 4th.
With some of the same kind of cool Stuff you see here!  {except the lame old Laptop}
Click here for More information!  Click around for details as to where the Zinefest is at!
If you are seriously wondering what I have to offer , please check out the "labels"and click on 1988, 1989, 1990, and maybe 1991 also etc. to see my older stuff in advance! 

Feel free to friend me on Facebook!
and if you scroll down, check out my videos on youtube !

Fancy Storm

(c)2014 Ralf Schulze

New ACEO / Sketch Card.  Ink and  color pencil on beige, acid-free card stock paper.

Remember ACEO is standard trading card size (2.5" x 3.5") or in metric 62mm x 88mm!

Non-Exposure

(c)2013 Ralf Schulze

This is an older piece that I create last year.  A study in grayscale.  Uses ink and various gray and white color pencil on 4" x 6" (postcard-sized) acid-free gray cardstock paper.
I remember I did it in one or two sittings and I liked it enough to sign it.

{my personal rule is:
 If I sign it, it is done/finished! And I cannot add to it after that}

It sat in a pile of papers for a few months until I recently discovered it.

Fingers of God

(c)2014 Ralf Schulze

This is the usual 8.5" x 11" acrylic paint and ink and color pencil on colored, acid-free, card stock colored paper.

I am willing to sell most any of this size/style of my original art for $100 each, unframed and I keep the rights to the image. Contact me any way you like.
I have approx 30 different originals available.
Click here for a nice thumbnail view of most all I've done in this style.
Below is an earlier scan.

(c)2014 Ralf Schulze

Catfish Dreams Deep

(c)2014 Ralf Schulze

I just spent 2 hrs searching through my two old computers for the original paint only scan (I swear, I scanned them religiously) but to no avail.

This is the usual 8.5" x 11" acrylic paint and ink and color pencil on colored, acid-free, card stock colored paper.

I am willing to sell most any of this size/style of my original art for $100 each, unframed and I keep the rights to the image. Contact me any way you like.

Locust Demon On Vacation

(c)2014 Ralf Schulze

 Illustration of a Demon.  Same old 8.5 x 11 Colored acid-free cardstock paper.  With Acrylic paint, ink (just a bit), and colored pencil.  {notice the extra talons/legs created with colored pencil}

(c)2014 Ralf Schulze

L - Stages

(c)2014 Ralf Schulze

 As a "painted only" work, this was waiting for me to embellish for a while.
Then it became obvious and i finished it a few days (finished mid February).
Only now getting to post it.
same old 8.5 x 11 acid free colored card-stock paper.
I only used Acrylic paint and Prismacolor pencil to create this(Surprise!  No Ink!).
It is currently framed with a bright red Ikea frame and looks fabulous hanging on my wall in the hall!

(c)2014 Ralf Schulze

Below is the paint only.

Oddly Happy-Blue

(c)2014 Ralf Schulze

I just created this yesterday on some fine thick cardstock with ink and color pencil... signed at an angle because I like it horizontally and vertically...

(c)2014 Ralf Schulze

Small Faces

 I got a nice bunch of cardstock paper scraps recently and some are odd sized and odd colors and textures:
this Dinky Doo here is sharpie on a glittery pink and i added stickers. It's about 1.5" x 3"...                            


















      This is on similar sized dark blue card stock with a serious slate-type texture. I just used colored pencil for this...



















A goofy sketch on the back of a business card.  Blue and black ink with color pencil...

Audition of the Wrong Bhuda

(c)2014 Ralf Schulze

Started last summer and it finally gelled a few days ago.  Had to trim this baby because I accidentally got grease spots on the piece.  It's too good to trash because of 2 tiny oil stains... if you really need to know look at the top right and bottom just to the right of my signature.
If you still want to buy the original it will cost you $120 unframed.  And of course I still have complete rights to use the image as I wish.
This is 8" x 10" otherwise same old acrylic paint, ink and color pencil on acid-free card stock paper.

In The End

(c)1988 Ralf Schulze

A crazy, big (9 x 12) drawing with ink.  I was in a mode to do "Blind" drawings and then add to them.
That is why Dinky Doo looks odd... I drew him with my eyes closed.

"In the end, the future is Death"
"None of us will get out of Here alive!"

Another Envelope Art

(c)2013 Ralf Schulze

Titled "Fourth Reunion" and it's the same size and media as the others (click here). Media being ink and color pencil.... Love that kraftpaper color as a base...