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Name: Jeremy
Gender: Male


Interests: Archery - Hunting - Fishing - Wakeboarding - Drawing - Painting - Reading - Remodeling - Camping - Cutting fire wood
Expertise: Art
Occupation: Newspaper page design/illustra
Industry: Print media


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Member Since: 7/31/2006

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Monday, December 11, 2006

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Love, Pain & the Whole Crazy Thing
By Keith Urban
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Link

Okay, so I know I haven't been on xanga in forever (Sorry). I figure I might as well include a link to reach me at because I didn't fall off the end of the earth. Yes, it is a myspace page (sorry xangans). Basically everyone who I know from the past is using something myspace so I had to reluctantly make the switch.

 http://www.myspace.com/flannelman61

I have a few new blogs on there (well ... new to you guys) and I have photos up of mainly me and my brother.

From this guy,

Jeremy


Link

Okay, so I know I haven't been on xanga in forever (Sorry). I figure I might as well include a link to reach me at because I didn't fall off the end of the earth. Yes, it is a myspace page (sorry xangans). Basically everyone who I know from the past is using something myspace so I had to reluctantly make the switch.

 http://www.myspace.com/flannelman61

I have a few new blogs on there (well ... new to you guys) and I have photos up of mainly me and my brother.

From this guy,

Jeremy


Friday, October 06, 2006

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Suitable for Framing
By Three Dog Night
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You've been warned ...

Sorry it took me so long to post these, but I can't get my digital camera to work on my Mac at home. Thus, these are cropped versions (as I used my scanner and had a smaller window) because I usually draw huge. 24 to 30 inches high for drawings and a minimum of 45 inches for paintings. I went to IU for a degree in painting and drawing and kind of fell into design as that is where the work ended up being. I hope to someday open my own gallery and have hopes to sell commishioned pieces again in the next year or two.

All the work I will post here is basically my sketches. I don't have any finished work left being it has been sold or given away to friends in leaving college or to professors to show what they wanted. Also, a lot of the time I could only get models if I were to give them the painting/drawing when finished with the class critique. I now know I should of kept some oil paintings as I used so many hours on them and they were what led professors to ask if I would stay and get my masters in painting through them. I declined the offer as you already know. Again, these are my sketches, much of which I made my finished oil paintings upon.


Enjoy ...






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The last three are of the same drawing ... my personal focus in school was to find positions at such a strange anlgle that I had to get the composition completely correct or it wouldn't look right. I drew or painted from the model basically every day Junior and Senior years of school. I really see nothing wrong with nudity as I have attained the menatlity when I draw that the model is just another piece of furniture. You haven't lived until you are doing something for three hours and when that time is up it literally felt like 10 minutes. To get lost (in my case artwork) is beautiful.

This is the just of what I have left from college which is fairly pathetic being 4 out of the 5 classes I had every semester was painting or drawing. I only took one graphics class in college and never designed a page in college and I've become a page designer. Isn't life weird. At least my souls dead right?


Monday, September 25, 2006

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The Ultimate Collection
By The Commodores
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College Work

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I just got my digital up and running so now I can start putting some work on here. Vine charcoal gesture drawing early in my college experience. My favorite subject is the figure because it's the hardest to pull off. Everyone has engrained in their memory what a person looks like whether they know that or not. In drawing anything else there are a lot of gray areas in what you can fudge and get away with. The back is my favorite part for some reason so I do have a lot of torso back studies. Using josephiney's language 'there will be nudity soon so here's your warning.' I guess I really don't care if someone thinks it's distasteful. That's just being ignorant to the subject of the human race (that's my rant). Enjoy as more will follow at some point.


Sunday, September 24, 2006

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In Between Dreams
By Jack Johnson
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Tracks

His footprint embedded through the woods along the river. Staggering to keep up, he imprints upon the larger memory briefly sealed in the mud before him. The smaller must be young, experiencing the world at his mothers experienced pace. In harmony to their pace, a distinct earthy scent of walnuts brought forward by the approaching fall tickles the nose. I am looking, plotting, scaning and finally find these tracks I am rambling about. It's been just shy of a year since I have been here last. Maybe the memories I have left here in years past have been pondered by another too.

If you haven't already noticed (as I don't know how you would ...) I am talking about my recent hike at a favorite farm. Hunting to me isn't about taking game. It's about things as simple as finding a whitetail yearling track set inside his mom's track, easily three to four times his size. They have been through here recently as it rained the night before having washed all earlier evidence away. They left the corn field they spent feeding the dark hours of the morning now to the south of me in a direction towards their favorite fall bedding thicket nustled next to the river.

I enjoy hunting because I can truely see beautiful (yes the burly flannel wearing guy said beautiful) things and how they are meant to be. So to the people that take offense to hunting and call me a killer I ask you when the last time it was you stopped and thought of life without you. It's not a humans role to decide what is right and wrong. God imagined a system where everything provides for the next and can co-exist. Not envisioning an atmosphere where everything adapts to people. I can't wait till next weekend on opening day when I can see first hand that yearling awkwardly following his mom in the woods. Now that I know where they'll be of course. Seeing my imagination come to life in the color of the woods.



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