Blue Devil

(c)1997 Ralf Schulze

Acrylic paint on cheap blue poster board.
22 inches by 14 inches

Feel free to make an offer I have it here in Richmond.

The shine on the left side is because there is an under-painting of gold in the background.

Object

(c)1982 Ralf Schulze

I did this in College.

its 19 inches x 24 inches.
watercolor, India ink and color pencils on paper.

I still have it and if you like it, please make an offer.

(it has a tear near bottom left)

Totem Sketch

(c)2011 Ralf Schulze

Another from C'ville.

Blue sharpie and Acrylic on beige 8.5" x 11" card stock.

Sunset

(c)2011 Ralf Schulze

Another, Quick sketch.  Acrylic and color pencil on red 8.5 x11 acidfree cardstock.

New Untitled

(c)2011 Ralf Schulze

It's been a while since I posted and I need to get back in the groove.  To jump-start that idea, I went to My pal Dave Currier in Charlottesville VA and we did a lot of art and listening to music while enjoying good food and drink.
This was the first thing I whipped out.  Acrylic on green acid-free 8.5 x 11 cardstock.
Many of the following post will be of small painted sketches I did that same evening!

Eat A Peach

(c)2009 Ralf Schulze

2 years ago in C'ville at my friend's studio, I painted over the Allman Bros. album cover Eat A Peach.  I liked it enough to put it in a frame and hang in my cubicle at work.

Finally took a picture of it!

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!

Maybe it's Done?

(c)2011 Ralf Schulze

(c)2011 Ralf Schulze

top is the possibly finished painting in all it's unsigned glory . . .12" x 12" of acrylic paint on paper.













Bottom is exactly the same piece but trimmed.

Let me know which you like better and why!

My Art table Today!

all works shown (c)2011 Ralf Schulze

Finally got back into it.

Postcard Painting Sketches

(c)2011 Ralf Schulze

Last year I bought a pad of "Acrylic Painting Paper"  it's kind of odd but I like it.
It is thick paper embossed with a fake canvas texture, and to top off the oddness, the size is 6" x 12" .
I've used it for ACEO's and some other things, but last month I realized that I can make 3 postcards... (standard postcard size in USA is 6" x 4")
So I decided to do this as a whim while painting other stuff.

These are pencil and Acrylic paint.  I might or might not add to them. . . .

Abstracted Nude Two

(c)1985 Ralf Schulze

(c)1985 Ralf Schulze

Abstracted Nude One

(c)1985 Ralf Schulze

(c)1985 Ralf Schulze

Top is the original pencil and acrylic sketch on paper (approx. 2.5" x 10")

bottom is the final (destroyed) painting on masonite and  2 x 4's  approx 6 feet long.

I knew the size I was going to paint on and sketched it accordingly.

FISH of LIFE sketch

(c)2009 Ralf Schulze

This is from my current sketchbook which actually goes back to June 2008. This is a pencil sketch  approx 7" x7" .  The sketchbook is very beige (almost grocery bag color)  You might recognize the subject matter from an ACEO I have on etsy HERE!

My Etsy Shop - New Stuff!

(c)2009 Ralf Schulze

This is my Etsy Shop Title Logo! 

I post 14 Original Art cards for Purchase (most of them you've seen in this art blog).  Check them out anyway!

CLICK THIS  to get there!

Re - Startness

(c)2011 Ralf Schulze

The start on something new from last weekend in C'ville

This is on 14" x 18" old slightly warped old canvas board (the absolute limit in size for any reasonable canvas board)

But I like it and it's new and I'm ready to change things!

Coolness!

(c)1984 Ralf Schulze

This is BIG on paper.

Oil, maybe acrylic, sharpie.

I hope you look at  the close-up (just click on the image)

I think this might be one of my best and it is probably around 40" x 60".

For Sale but in a raw state. It is rolled up.

This might be upside down if you see the signature!

Egg Paint

(c)2007 Ralf Schulze

This one is fun to see close-up.  Even though it is Ink and Acrylic 8" x 10" on canvasboard.

for sale.

Title is: Infestation

A real selling point!

but very cheap postage!

Abstraction on Paper

(c)1986 Ralf Schulze

I did a whole bunch of these Acrylic paint where I outlined the brushwork in india ink, and then added more color with Color pencil. 

They were mostly on colored paper and about 9" x 12" in size I just found 8 unfinished ones (no color pencil yet)

They are essentially abstact studies and experiments in a structured media and style.

Orange Double Drops

(c)2011 Ralf Schulze

 Another acrylic on 12 x 12 gray paper.

If you look back on some earlier posts you may see this in process on my art table.  Click on "show process" Label on the right.

Painted Head Thing

(c)2011 Ralf Schulze

 This is an acrylic on paper sketch.

12" x 12"  gray paper

Finished it the other day.