5x7-doodles

Moving....

2009-12-16T21:10:00.000-06:00

MOVING MY BLOG... Now I'm going to have only one blog instead of the many that I have had up til now... The new location is http://jeffthomann.wordpress.com/

Please pray for Jon.

2008-06-27T14:28:00.000-05:00

My cousin Jon Thomann has been in the hospital the last week. He fell down a flight of concrete stairs and did some major damage to his head that required brain surgery. He has not fully become consious yet, but there are indications that he is becoming more active. This has been a trying time and has been hard on all of us.

Please pray for his recovery. If you would like to know more about his current situation, his girlfriend, parents and brother are keeping us all updated with this website/blog:

http://caringbridge.org/visit/jonthomann

If you would like to help out financially, there has been a new Support Fund recently set up. You may send checks to the

Jon Thomann and Family Support Fund
P.O. Box 1262
Columbia MO 65205-1262

For more information on the fund and its purpose, you may contact Cathi Harris at 573-220-6582.

Happy Halloween...

2007-10-29T07:18:00.000-05:00

Happy Halloween!

A little doodle...

A little better... but background still could use some help...

A little fuzzy...

Quack Quack

Quick Face Sketch

I'm a little teapot.. short and stout...

Waterfall type image

2007-06-23T08:09:00.000-05:00

This isn't what I'd call a completed work of art in a pictoral sense, but it is complete compositionally. It's sort of a bit of an abstract image of a waterfall or something similar to a waterfall where you have a stream of colors flooding down the middle of a composition. This was more or less just a doodle. I like doing landscape paintings a lot, and somehow manage to get waterfalls in them on occassion. I mess with trying to figure out how best to depect that and still be painterly and sort of realistic but make the water sort of look alive as it's moving downwards... My past attempts at that have been somewhat successful when using pointilism type techniqes, but it's something that still needs a lot of conceptual work and work in getting control on how to get brushstroke placement and things all to work together cohesively... this little doodle was just a quick sketch in mspaint while on break at work, and I'll probably do more doodles like this or paintings in this arena in the near future since it's a complex visual puzzle to put together that is super simple yet can be very complex to deal with as you are trying to figure out how it all fits in together and works, and does what you want it to do for a viewer... all of that's probably not too apparent in this little sketch, but maybe a bit of it is?...

colored tree, and landscape

2007-06-23T08:05:00.000-05:00

Just doodling a tree/landscape together... main concept or theme in this focuses on color relations and composition more than anything else...

adding a bit of color

2007-06-23T08:01:00.000-05:00

Just a few more doodles, more or less using the scratcherboard sky idea, but with colors other than just black and white...

Link to this album: http://bayimg.com/album/nAahAAaaa
http://bayimg.com/OabBDaABk
http://bayimg.com/OabbEaABK
http://bayimg.com/OABBfAaBk
http://bayimg.com/oabBgAAbk

a few simple and quick self portraits, or just doodles of some dude...

2007-06-23T07:56:00.000-05:00

a few simple and quick self portraits, or just doodles of some dude...

Link to this album: http://bayimg.com/album/MaAhoAaaa
http://bayimg.com/MaBbIAaBk
http://bayimg.com/mabBJAAbk
http://bayimg.com/MABbkaabK
http://bayimg.com/MAbblAAbk
http://bayimg.com/MAbBmAAbK
http://bayimg.com/MabbNaabK
http://bayimg.com/MaBBOAabk
http://bayimg.com/mabbpaABk
http://bayimg.com/nABBaaAbk

Scratcherboard Sky or Seascape

2007-06-23T07:51:00.000-05:00

I kind of like painting a black or grey background in ms paint and then going in with grey or white streaks, airbrush, or pencil type tools to make a quick composition. Here's a few doodles using this technique...

Link to this album: http://bayimg.com/album/MAahmaAaa
http://bayimg.com/LabBiAaBK
http://bayimg.com/labbJAabK
http://bayimg.com/lAbBKAAbK
http://bayimg.com/LaBbLAabk
http://bayimg.com/LabbmAABk
http://bayimg.com/LAbBNaabk
http://bayimg.com/LaBboAABK
http://bayimg.com/labbpAAbk

Weird Little psychoclown, guy similar to the elder with crystal shard in dark crystal, or yodda type character

2007-06-23T07:45:00.000-05:00

Just some doodles that started out as white airbrush in mspaint. It turned out looking like a Weird Little psychoclown, guy similar to the elder with crystal shard in dark crystal, or yodda type character to me... maybe you see something different?

Link to this album: http://bayimg.com/album/MAAhLaAAa
http://bayimg.com/kabBaaAbk
http://bayimg.com/kaBBbAabk
http://bayimg.com/kabbCAAbK
http://bayimg.com/KabBdaabk
http://bayimg.com/KabBEaaBK
http://bayimg.com/kabbfaAbk
http://bayimg.com/kabbgAAbk
http://bayimg.com/kABbhaabK
http://bayimg.com/KaBBIaABk
http://bayimg.com/kabbjAAbK
http://bayimg.com/kAbbkaAbk
http://bayimg.com/kaBblaAbK

Line Drawings...

2007-06-23T07:39:00.000-05:00

This is just a progression of a doodled idea and I added a little more here and there... the little guy in the corner started to look like a detective, anime character of some sort with a handkerchief on his mouth, or something, and I sort of doodled in a bit of comic book elements... not a finished idea, but gives me a springboard of ideas to work from in the future...

Link to this album: http://bayimg.com/album/mAahkaAAa
http://bayimg.com/iaBbMAAbk
http://bayimg.com/IAbBnAabk
http://bayimg.com/IAbBoaABk
http://bayimg.com/IaBBPaAbK
http://bayimg.com/JABbAaabk
http://bayimg.com/jabbbaaBk
http://bayimg.com/jaBbCAaBK
http://bayimg.com/JAbBdaABK
http://bayimg.com/JaBbeAaBK
http://bayimg.com/JABbFaABK
http://bayimg.com/JaBbgAAbK

Things that Go Bump in the Night

2007-06-23T07:35:00.000-05:00

This is a few images sort of focused on chairiscuro effects and sort of ideas about seeing a forest or landscape of sorts at night...

Link to this album: http://bayimg.com/album/maAHJAAaA
http://bayimg.com/IaBBcAabk
http://bayimg.com/iaBBdaAbk
http://bayimg.com/IABbeaabK
http://bayimg.com/IabbFaabK
http://bayimg.com/iabbgAabK
http://bayimg.com/iAbBHAaBk

strange little doodles... I really like a

2007-06-23T07:29:00.000-05:00

Link to this album: http://bayimg.com/album/mAAhHAAAA
http://bayimg.com/GABbKAabK
http://bayimg.com/GaBblaABk
http://bayimg.com/GabbmAAbK
http://bayimg.com/GabbNAaBk
http://bayimg.com/gABboaABk
http://bayimg.com/gaBBPaABk
http://bayimg.com/hAbbaaAbk
http://bayimg.com/HABBbaaBK
http://bayimg.com/haBbCaaBK
http://bayimg.com/HAbBDaabk

The only one of these that I consider a finished work is:
http://bayimg.com/HAbBDaabk

sketchy doodling charcoal-like

2007-06-23T07:24:00.000-05:00

Link to this album: http://bayimg.com/album/mAAhGaaaa
http://bayimg.com/fabBJaaBK
http://bayimg.com/faBbKAaBK
http://bayimg.com/fAbblaabK
http://bayimg.com/FaBbmAaBK
http://bayimg.com/FabBnAabK
http://bayimg.com/FabBOaABk
http://bayimg.com/FaBBPAABK

Random Ideas

2007-06-23T01:27:00.000-05:00

Link to this album: http://bayimg.com/album/eAaHmaaAa
http://bayimg.com/NABnOaabh
http://bayimg.com/NabnPaaBh
http://bayimg.com/oAbNAaAbh
http://bayimg.com/oabNBaAbH
http://bayimg.com/oAbncAAbH
http://bayimg.com/oaBNdaAbH
http://bayimg.com/oabnEAaBh

6.19.07a1

2007-06-23T01:25:00.000-05:00

Link to this album: http://bayimg.com/album/EAahlaAaa
http://bayimg.com/mabnkAAbh
http://bayimg.com/MABNLAaBH
http://bayimg.com/MaBNmAaBH
http://bayimg.com/mAbnNAabH
http://bayimg.com/MAbNoAabH
http://bayimg.com/mABNpAabH
http://bayimg.com/nAbnAAABH
http://bayimg.com/nAbNbAaBh
http://bayimg.com/nABNCAaBh
http://bayimg.com/NaBNdAabH
http://bayimg.com/NAbnEAaBh
http://bayimg.com/NABNfAaBH
http://bayimg.com/naBngaABH
http://bayimg.com/nABNHAAbh

6.19.07

2007-06-23T01:21:00.000-05:00

Link to this album: http://bayimg.com/album/EAAhkAAaA

Here's a little Landscape type Doodling with Color. Image was created very quickly in Microsoft Paint. Please remember - these are just quick little doodles, not real completed works of art...

http://bayimg.com/laBNmAabH
http://bayimg.com/laBnNaabh
http://bayimg.com/LAbNOAAbH
http://bayimg.com/lABnpaABh
http://bayimg.com/MAbnaaABh
http://bayimg.com/MABnBAAbh
http://bayimg.com/MaBNcAABH
http://bayimg.com/MABNdaabH
http://bayimg.com/MAbNeaABh

4/19/07

2007-06-23T01:19:00.000-05:00

All images are Copyright Jeff Thomann, 2006-2007.

Here's a few quick sketches where I airbrushed in some stuff on a black background. I really like this quick, almost scraper style of working in mspaint. I use mspaint for these because the computer I'm doing these doodles on only has that program installed as far as paint and photo programs go. Just stuff that I do during lunch breaks or other breaks during the day...

On this one, I like how one quick little airbrush stroke can create a sort of visual idea like you are in a cave looking up at an entrance and seeing the skylight above where the stars are or something. I really like this black/white style since the imagery can use both positive and negative white space... and if you don't see it as a cave or something, you can see it as something being depicted, like a bird or something...

The following is an expansion of the previous idea, but taking it to a full landscape sort of composition. Sillohettes can make for some very interesting images when doing this sort of stuff, especially if you start with either black or grey tones and work your way towards really dark or light as you build up marks on the image plane.

The following is just something stupid I did to the last pic... I don't really like it, but if I was to put in a character that was fully developed, I could possibly use this sort of placement, either having character facing the viewer or looking towards the horizon line. Not sure why I chose that gross color, but I did... it's just a doodle...

4/10/07 image album....

2007-06-23T01:12:00.000-05:00

All images below are Copyright, Jeff Thomann 2007.

These images were created in Microsoft Paint on Breaks at work. They are simple little doodles that I create in my spare time.

Here's a couple of quick sketches... images are inspired by a fairy tale and are suppossed to be sort of dreamlike. I was just playing with composition more than anything here...

The following is a quick study of a character laying down. It's amazing what simple random dot patterns from an airbrush can do when mixed with strategically placed lines.

The following images are doodles of a composition that's sort of based on the pyrimidal "golden arc" idea. I've seen some really interesting conceptual works in sculpture and painting done with imagery similar to this. It's a fascinating topic to explore visually since there's so much compositional balance and harmony, and things are so widely opened for narrative interpretations, both physically and metaphysically...

The following are some dooldes of tree. Nothing fancy...

Finally found a host for my images...

2007-06-23T01:02:00.000-05:00

Up til now, I've had issues with a ton of different hosts... Now, the folks running Pirate Bay have created an image hosting site http://bayimg.com/ . I'm going to use that as a host site for my uploaded jpg files... most of which are just random doodles done in ms paint at work while on lunch breaks, or while sitting on hold on the phone with various companies for long periods of time... These are mostly, but not necessarily about 5x7 inches in size... so I can print them and frame them without having to make custom frames down the road, or can upload them to cafepress.com as greeting cards or for whatever if needed to do little projects here and there...

Hope ya like some of these... if not, that ok... everyone's a critic... LOL. Seriously though, most of these are just doodles. Think of them as nothing more than an artist's doodles in a sketchbook. The only difference is the sketchbook was a computer and the only image editing software available and on hand was ms paint... and of course, time was severely limited...

Links to Image Albums will be in the next several posts on this blog...

-- Jeff Thomann --