BFA Show – Comic

Comic
Oil on Canvas
© 1999, Jeff Thomann

This image was one of the 3′ x 3′ works I did for my BFA show. This, along with the other images in the show were derived from dream imagery. I had started several dream journals in college, and the images for this show were painted versions of some of the images from those journals.

Capturing dreams in a journal is not always easy. I ‘cheated’ a little some of the time that I was doing these images since I had to come up with some of the dreams to put in to the paintings. I did this by sleeping with the lights on and covering my eyes when I slept, and I kept the sketchbooks and journals next to me within an arms length of where I was sleeping, and would start writing as soon as I awoken from a dream. Covering the eyes while the lights were one forced me to remember the dreams as I awoke when the light hit me eyes. However, I had to work quickly to put the dreams down in the book as quickly as possible before my conscious waking mind took over the subconscious train of thought and started putting too much ‘real world’ left brained stuff in to the images and cause/effect relationships and stories beyond what the dream actually contained that I was trying to capture. You have a very short span of time to do that sort of thing if you dream journal as the waking mind sort of takes over within 5-10 minutes or so after you wake up.

There is a lot I learned about dreams in doing this. My dreams are very much based on architectural ideas and archetypes. Many times multiple people in real life will join in to one being in a dream… creating a construct of sorts.. and these archetypes/constructs play roles. Dreams really do have a meaning and reflection that comes from the waking world, and there is a method to them. If you every try to dream journal, you can learn this methodology and the meaning behind the dreams. Most dream interpretation books are way off. It’s much much more personal than any of those can every really get to the real reality of because every person’s personal archive of images that they draw upon from their own waking lives is unique to them… I might make more posts about this in the future. There is a LOT to dream journaling.

Pastel Figure Drawing

Pastel Figure Drawing
Pastel and Charcoal on Paper
© 1999, Jeff Thomann

Back Study

Back Study
Pastel and Charcoal on Paper
© 1999, Jeff Thomann

Reclining Figure Drawing

Reclining Figure Drawing
Pastel and Charcoal on Paper
© 1999, Jeff Thomann

Nude Self Portrait

Nude Self Portrait
Pastel on Paper
© 1999, Jeff Thomann

Pastel Figure Drawing

Pastel Figure Drawing
Pastel on Paper
© 1999, Jeff Thomann

Pastel Figure Drawing

Pastel Figure Drawing

Pastel, Charcoal, and Collage
© 1999, Jeff Thomann

BHS

BHS
Oil on Canvas
© 1999, Jeff Thomann
BHS is one image from a series of paintings I created for my BFA show back in College in 1999. It was based on a dream. BHS is the name of this since the background was sort of similar to a locker hallway in Boonville High School where I attended high school.

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Some of the color pencil drawings on my website.

These color pencil drawings are on my website. I’m putting here in the blog in case I decide to change the design of the website later to remove these images, etc. Eventually, I might put some of these images on various places online where you can find them on postcards, etc. I’ll probably update this post later if I do that so that it’ll be easy to find where the products are.

Sleepy Eyes

© 2009 Jeff Thomann
Media: Color Pencil on Gessoed Hardboard

Duchess, the Pomeranian

© 2009 Jeff Thomann
Media: Color Pencil on Gessoed Hardboard

and Away the Stranger Mozied

© 2004 Jeff Thomann
Media: China Marker and Pastel on Canvas

Wolf

© 2009 Jeff Thomann
Media: Color Pencil on Paper

Void

© 2009 Jeff Thomann
Media: China Marker on Illustration Board

http://jeffthomann.t35.com – Jeff Thomann’s Online Portfolio

no longer use this t35 place since some idiot scammer ruined it for everyone else that was using the place for free hosting, so now scammer alerts show up an avast, etc. anytime t35 url is spotted anywhere online

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I’ve started working a bit more on http://jeffthomann.t35.com over the last few days. It is starting to come together nicely. There are still several images on there that I probably will remove, and several more that I will add eventually, but it’s a nice framework that’s starting to come together a lot better then it was before now. I like being able to click on the images to make them take up the full width of the browser, even if the bigger image is just a resized copy of the smaller images. With today’s high resolution digital photos and scans, it’s sort of nice to be able to zoom in and see fine details individual brush strokes and things in paintings and drawings that our predecessors could have only dreamed about. The resume is finally starting to go online over there. I’m still not 100% comfortable putting that much personal information online, but since this blog is here along with facebook, most anyone could figure out all of that information anyways I suppose, so it’s a mute point to try to keep information from being free. I will probably not put a phone number over there or a real world address anytime soon, but the email link from the name on the resume should do a pretty good substitute. Would love to have someone give me some feedback on what I need to do to make it better…

Sleepy Eyes

Sleepy Eyes© 2010 Jeff Thomann
Media: Color Pencil and China Marker on Hardboard

Status: Original is Not for Sale at this time. However, many various items with this image on it can be found at http://www.cafepress.com/Sleepy_Eyes

Primary Themes: 2010, CARTOONS, Portfolio, animals, art, artfolio, cartoon, character, color, color pencil, dog, drawing, painting, jeff, art, painting, drawing, thomann, doodle, sketch, sketchbook, artfolio, Portfolio, color pencil, color, china marker, dog, hardboard, portrait, composition, study, Head, artist, gallery, paintings, pet, animal, dogs, pencil, golden, retriever, hairy, nose, eye, cute, artists, imagination, jeff thomann, pastel, pencils, colors, domestic, cudley, cudly, furry, snout, mouth, teeth, eyes, crayon, china, marker, media, sleepy, lazy, drawings

Mall Small #77 Drawing

Copyright Jeff Thomann, 1999
Media: Ink on Paper
Original Status: Not for Sale at this time
Print Status: Prints of this image on various items is available at http://www.cafepress.com/mallsmall77
Original Size: 3 1/2″ x 5″
Primary Themes: baby, child, youth, innocent, little, small, mall, sketchbook, Body, Face, neutral, pose, posing, Sitting, Portrait, Sketch, Drawing, Line, Head, Study, Figure, Face, Doodle, Anatomy, Sitting, composition, ink, illustration, print, prints, cartoon, 1999, art, artfolio, blogging, college, composition, doodle, Face, hobbies, ink, jeff, lines, sitting, sketch, stick, study, human, thomann, arts, shadow, shading, dark, sketchbook, portrait, mallsmall, mall small

Mall Small #76 Drawing

Copyright Jeff Thomann, 1999
Media: Ink on Paper
Original Status: Not for Sale at this time
Print Status: Prints of this image on various items is available at http://www.cafepress.com/mallsmall76
Original Size: 3 1/2″ x 5″
Primary Themes: baby, child, youth, young, cap, hat, small, innocent, Body, Face, neutral, pose, posing, Sitting, Portrait, Sketch, Drawing, Line, Head, Study, Figure, Face, Doodle, Anatomy, Sitting, composition, ink, illustration, print, prints, cartoon, 1999, art, artfolio, blogging, college, composition, doodle, Face, hobbies, ink, jeff, lines, sitting, sketch, stick, study, human, thomann, arts, shadow, shading, dark, sketchbook, portfolio, portrait

Mall Small #75 Drawing

Copyright Jeff Thomann, 1999
Media: Ink on Paper
Original Status: Not for Sale at this time
Print Status: Prints of this image on various items is available at http://www.cafepress.com/mallsmall75
Original Size: 3 1/2″ x 5″
Primary Themes: Man, ballcap, guy, set, gruff, rough, factory, worker, biker, heavy, Body, Face, neutral, pose, posing, Sitting, Portrait, Sketch, Drawing, Line, Head, Study, Figure, Face, Doodle, Anatomy, Sitting, composition, ink, illustration, print, prints, cartoon, 1999, art, artfolio, blogging, college, composition, doodle, Face, hobbies, ink, jeff, lines, sitting, sketch, stick, study, human, thomann, arts, shadow, shading, dark, sketchbook, portfolio

Mall Small #65 Drawing

Copyright Jeff Thomann, 1999
Media: Ink on Paper
Original Status: Not for Sale at this time
Print Status: Prints of this image on various items is available at http://www.cafepress.com/mallsmall65
Original Size: 3 1/2″ x 5″
Primary Themes: Girl, Female, chick, lady, Body, Face, neutral, pose, posing, Sitting, Portrait, Sketch, Drawing, Line, Head, Study, Figure, Face, Doodle, Anatomy, Sitting, composition, ink, illustration, print, prints, cartoon, 1999, art, artfolio, blogging, college, composition, doodle, Face, hobbies, ink, jeff, lines, sitting, sketch, stick, study, human, thomann, arts, soccer mom, mother, stripe, stripes

Mall Small #57 Drawing

Copyright Jeff Thomann, 1999
Media: Ink on Paper
Original Status: Not for Sale at this time
Print Status: Prints of this image on various items is available at http://www.cafepress.com/mallsmall57
Original Size: 3 1/2″ x 5″
Primary Themes: Body, Standing, Shape, Form, Logo, Athletic, Sitting, Portrait, Sketch, Drawing, Line, Head, Study, Figure, Face, Doodle, Anatomy, Sitting, composition, ink, illustration, print, prints, cartoon, 1999, art, artfolio, blogging, college, composition, doodle, Face, hobbies, ink, jeff, lines, sitting, sketch, stick, study, human, thomann, arts, gym, hands, arms, relaxed, mall small, mall, small, Sketch Book

Mall Small #56 Drawing

Copyright Jeff Thomann, 1999
Media: Ink on Paper
Original Status: Not for Sale at this time
Print Status: Prints of this image on various items is available at http://www.cafepress.com/mallsmall56
Original Size: 3 1/2″ x 5″
Primary Themes: Hat, Youth, Girl, Lady, Innocence, Sports, Sporty, Sporting, Shape, Shade, Shading, Body, Legs, Sitting, Portrait, Sketch, Drawing, Line, Head, Study, Figure, Face, Doodle, Anatomy, Sitting, composition, ink, illustration, print, prints, cartoon, 1999, art, artfolio, blogging, college, composition, doodle, Face, hobbies, ink, jeff, lines, sitting, sketch, stick, study, human, thomann, arts

Genesis – The Golden

Genesis – The Golden
Copyright 2010 by Jeff Thomann
Media: Color Pencil on Gessoed Hardboard
Original Status: Not for Sale at this time
Original Size: 5″x7″
Print Status: a print of this drawing is available on many various items at http://www.cafepress.com/GenesisGolden

Mall Small #18 Drawing

Copyright Jeff Thomann, 1999
Media: Ink on Paper
Original Status: Not for Sale at this time
Print Status: Prints of this image on various items is available at http://www.cafepress.com/mallsmall18
Original Size: 3 1/2″ x 5″
Primary Themes: Portrait, Sketch, Drawing, Line, Head, Study, Figure, Face, Doodle, Anatomy, Sitting, composition, ink, illustration, print, prints, cartoon, 1999, art, artfolio, blogging, college, composition, doodle, drawing, Face, figure, head, hobbies, ink, jeff, lines, portrait, sitting, sketch, stick, study, human, thomann, arts, moustache, beard, lunch, eat, table, sitting, break