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!

Mother Whale Eye

(c)1983 Ralf Schulze

This is another large painting on paper I did my last year at college. It is about 50" x 50" 

It has been stored away and moved in a semi rolled up condition for very long and the oil paint makes the paper brittle through the years.

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!

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!

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!

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.

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!

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.

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

Abstract Expressionism

(c)1983 Ralf Schulze

An old art school painting scanned from a photograph 5+years ago and I remember that I tried using Acrylic based caulk in a caulking gun to create the relief and then paint over it with acrylic paint and oil.

Remember the rule: oil covering acrylic is OK. Acrylic paint over oil paint is BAD!

No real title but it was easily 3 feet x 3 feet on some kind if builder's grade paper board that was 1/2" thick.  I pretty sure this was dumped by my parents about 5 years ago. Gone forever!

I still should have the old photograph which I can scan at a higher resolution someday but why bother.

The Abstract Headness

(c)1987 Ralf Schulze

(c)1987 Ralf Schulze

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!

My Old Tribute To Jasper Johns

(c)1982 Ralf Schulze

One of my old College paintings.  It was fun mixing up the wad of yellow oil paint and going up on a ladder to drop it on the 3 ft. x 3 ft. canvas! 

Self-Portrait as a Ghost - 1983

(c) 1983 Ralf Schulze

. . . subtitle: "With the Maintenance Door Behind Me".

Oil and enamel spray paint on stretched canvas.  Approximately 18" x 24".

Whereabouts unknown.

Another Oldie!

(c)1984 Ralf Schulze

Another old Painting from my ancient past.

It is based on old photo I took of Mik Rez and Gregor when we were at a Long Island South shore beach on a cloudy winter day.

Mik Rez is on the left and Gregor is taking his own photo.

The painting is approx. 16" x 20".  I don't remember if it is oil or acrylic.  I used what some friends call my "signature" or "favorite" colors.

Old Abstract Landscape

(c)1982 Ralf Schulze

This is what I remember of this painting:

1st - all I have is this digital image which is probably scanned from a photograph or slide that I may or may not have somewhere.

2nd - It is oil paint on stretched canvas and approx 15" x15"

3rd - I don't really know where it is: Possibly in Germany, because I think I gave to my Grandmother many years ago.

That's it.

"Forever Unfinished"

This started as a found painting on canvas at a thrift shop with a very amatuerish practice image, back in around 2003.
I painted over it and every once in a while add a little something to it, but it never seems to gel.  I haven't worked on it since 2009.

Some of my thoughts about it are: underwater, Gorky, Kandinsky, Bacon, Alien landscape.......

It is 14" x 18" oil and acrylic on stretched canvas.