Limited Pallette

ssstarting some limited pallet stuff.
Each is 5 x 7

Love Yourself - Hal Weaver

(c)2012 Ralf Schulze

So my pal, Hal Weaver posted this drawing I sent him a couple of years ago.  It was a very flattering post and I appreciate the comments very much.  I need to send another package.
Please explore his posts, they are very cool to read!
His packages through the years,  were stand-outs compared to most i received... always great music and fun comix and stuph!

Thanks Hal!

Old Original Hand-carved Rubber Stamps #2

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More of my old Rubber Stamps from those bygone years of Mail Art and just plain fun packaging if you happen to send me a $1 or two for my comix.
From the top left:
1. Ordered from a rubber stamp company this with the words and the font as seen.  Still a good stamp!
2.  For $5 I sent to an address on the back of  Cheerios box.  "Send a picture of yourself and we will make a rubber stamp of your moniker for only $5!" or something like that.  It actually was pretty cool and well done and I used it thousands of times!  Of course the stamp is on a yellow plastic stamp block with the Cheerios logo.  (I should take a pic of that)
3. a carved rubber stamp by an unknown person.  very well done and I do not remember how I aquired it.
4. Ditto for this skull stamp also....
5. I stamped this Aardvark thousands of times but it is now on it's last bits.... tail, snout,ears and legs have been compromised by bad storage... oh well...
6. Larry the Leper.  I carved this into an eraser.
7.dinky Doo:  I carved this into wood.  He is featured on the last panel of this comix page!
8 & 10  Psychedelic Experience carved into an eraser for Mail art Project called .. . um... just  .. guess!
9 & 11 Hands with Envelope -- Hand carved by me.

Check out the previous rubber stamp for mail art post here!

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)

Third drawing from Saturday's Meetup

(c)2015 Ralf Schulze

This one came out nicely.  I like it, very abstract.

Small and Epic Ink Drawing

(c)2015 Ralf Schulze

 Did this at the meetup and really like it.  I did it on the 6 x 6 bristol board but the actual image maxes out at 4.25 x 4.75.  A nice quaint size.  There is a little bit of  pencil in there too.

I love how different it looks when it is flipped 90 degrees!

I have finally caught up to actually posting every other day, with works to spare!!!!

(c)2015 Ralf Schulze

New drawing at Aspiring Artist Meetup

(c)2015 Ralf Schulze

Did this while at the Meetup at Taza Coffee and Creme (near Stories) on Forest Hill Ave, Richmond. Today!
Ink on 6 x 6 smooth bristol. Cropped on the pc to approx. 5 x5.

I'm not very impressed with it.but I liked the experimental elements enough to post it.

I'll post more from the Meetup later.

Spring is Coming

(c)2015 Ralf Schulze

Another little color study on the kraft colored card stock 5.25 in. x 4 in. Ink and 3 color pencils; white, beige and brown.

Keep on Going!

(c)2015 Ralf Schulze

I am not down-and-out.  These are my current works in progress.

Old Original Hand-carved Rubber Stamps

(c)Ralf Schulze

Here is a first sample of some of the rubber stamps I carved and created back in my hard-core Mail-art period of 1986-1990. 
From top left to bottom right:
The address stamp was a drawing i sent to a company to create the rubber stamp.  The gaps on this stamping is basically rubber rot due to it being 25+years old..
The Little Aardvark popping thru the page, waving and smiling is a store bought find I couldn't resist and have used it hundreds of times!
the envelope stamp I carved from an eraser.
And I also carved the "AARDVARK MAIL"  Stamp.
The special Delivery stamp is just cool...

So I am milking it.... I have a few more hand carved rubber stamps to post in the near future.

Ointment Service

(c)2015 Ralf Schulze

Found some new kraft color paper and did up this study.
its is 5 x 7

Abstract Ink Sketch

(c)2015 Ralf Schulze

Finally got some creative juices flowing.

Yellow Computer Doodle

Ralf 2013

I played with computer  art.  I used a Bamboo tablet with a Corel program and found it interesting.
The Bamboo tablet was kinda cool because it conveyed the pressure of your stylus to the strength of the line / brush-strock.

But in the end, Since I work on a computer every day - 12-days a week.  I figure that I need a break from perfection and have to keep making art using those occasionally unerasable media called ink and paint.
  Currently I am in a Artist's equililent of a writer's Block.

Unstart of cool owl watercolor and ink

I made this a decade and a half ago based on a piece I saw at the VMA here in Richmond at the time

Lost My Horn - Album cover - Mr. Suburbia

Even though I made this 4 years ago and we made various other covers for the potential CD by Mr. Suburbia.
It still has not been " Released"

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.

The World of Dinky Doo is Nuts

(c) 1986 Ralf Schulze

Another page from my sophomore effort at a mini-comic back in 1986 - DINKY STORIES #2.

This page is so silly.  I noticed that I forgot Dinky's arms in the bottom left image!  OOPS!

I must have been high on Dinking.

Happy Friday the Thirteenth to everyone.

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.

Sketchy Train Ride

(c)2012 Ralf Schulze

this was a sketchbook page from 3 years ago, when I was taking the train up to Long island to get my current vehicle from my brother.  It was mostly created on the LIRR and sometimes when the ride got bumpy , it also created creative accidents on the page!