Innate Expression

I am posting my art elsewhere

2009-02-23T17:23:00.006-07:00

I have decided to centralize my artistic output in an art community. That community is deviantart.
I have also recognized a shift in my art which has started with the drawing I am posting here.
This is the beginning of my third phase. This blog represents the culmination of my first two phases, the first being categorized by the collection of pieces in primarily black/green/blue/red. Then I bought more colors and phase II started. Then I bought a fine tip sharpie pen and phase III started. Phase III is more of a focus on multiple images being perceived from one in complex and meticulous lines and patterns. Phase III is also a balance between full compositions and smaller tattoo designs. We will see where I go from here, but it will only be able to be seen on the deviant art profile.

thejeffanema.deviantart.com is where my art will be found now. I don't foresee posting any more drawings on here, but if/when I write again, I will be sure to post them here. So....please find my art and comment / view it at my artdeviant page. I am only getting better and the future is bright.

Here is my first black and white composition titled "Racial Profiling" which is a ridiculous/complex play on words (Black & White and the profile images of the nun faces)

thanks for caring.

My Masterpiece

2009-01-04T13:13:00.009-07:00

Well...here it is.

Somewhere around 56 hours later, my totem poles drawing is finally complete.

It is by far the most impressive piece I have created yet and has an extremely unique style that makes it worth quite a bit.

It is 14" by 17" and was completely created with Sharpies, with the exception of the snow capped mountains which were drawn with White out.

"Totum Polarization" by TheJeffAnema

click on it to see it a little more clearly...

btw, this piece is for sale on artbreak.com under my page : TheJeffAnema

www.artbreak.com/thejeffanema

New post huh?

2008-12-18T19:58:00.003-07:00

It has been a while since I have put any new finished artwork up... I have been workin on my totem pole creation for quite some time now... here are just a couple of interesting looking little sketches.
I like this snowboard/ski company logo design...i like the reverse image look.

I like this little dagger sheath image...the trees look interesting at least.

More Drawings...

2008-12-04T10:57:00.003-07:00

"Things look Bleak"

"Shady Animals" - a bogus Creative Arts assignment...(draw an animal from our learning to draw with pencils book)

"Strange Aesthetics with a Beige Dress"

Just a few more drawings in my progression as an artist. The current masterpiece has more than 30 hours of labor and is about 2/3 finished, it will blow your minds.

Star Wars?

2008-11-24T17:14:00.001-07:00

"Requesting Permission to Lando (Cloud City)"

3 More Drawings from my Moleskin...

2008-11-21T16:09:00.001-07:00

"Art is Fashionable" (incomplete)

"Fruity Canoe Hug" (incomplete)

"Acid Spaghetti"

A Couple More Beaut's

2008-11-12T12:45:00.003-07:00

"Dojos of my Dreams"

Penguins!

2008-10-28T17:00:00.005-06:00

Penguins are my favorite animals, or at least they were while I was younger and I have yet to officially select another favorite animal so I will stick with the suitors.

"Proud Pair of Penguins Potentially Put into Perspective"

Is it not awesome? Let me know...

Latin Poem

2008-10-28T10:52:00.004-06:00

Last spring I had an assignment in my Latin class of which we were to recreate some sort of manuscript in Latin. I didn't settle for any sort of reproduction and went with my gut instinct and created my own original poem and artwork. The poem is called "Fool's Gold"

Good Gods!

2008-10-16T21:24:00.004-06:00

These are the good Gods...
I am working on a new masterpiece... 16 hours into it and its only 30% filled... but it is going to be amazing.

Finished Productiveness

2008-10-06T10:54:00.002-06:00

yea...I'm sweet.

Tiger

2008-10-06T07:20:00.001-06:00

Most Recent Drawings

2008-09-18T08:52:00.002-06:00

3 New Creations.
2 Open Mind designs that will most likely never end up on any t shirt due to the excess of colors and complexity of screen printing.
1 Finished "Snakes in the Grass" - I like how it turned out. Snakes in the grass, its dedicated to politicians, on both sides.

Snakes

2008-09-15T12:02:00.002-06:00

Newest semi-complete drawing. It is the finished piece "snakes" but I plan on turning it into "snakes in the grass" with some exciting grass behind them.

Open Mind Apparel

2008-09-08T12:00:00.002-06:00

Some friends of a friend are discussing starting a clothing company using art from their friends and I was asked if I was interested in creating some art to put on shirts and such. Hells yea was the answer and the Open Mind Apparel totem was the first completed piece. Here it is. I may have to redo it with exact symmetry, but maybe we will just use the original product.

Unity

2008-09-02T14:36:00.003-06:00

My biggest most detailed piece is finally finished and too big to scan the entire picture with the scanner available to me. Once I pay to get it made into a print they will do a full scan and I will then have access to that, so for now I will just upload one section of it, its approximately 70% of the total picture. These other two partially incomplete drawings are my ideas for some t shirt designs. Word...

Drawbreaker

2008-08-16T10:02:00.003-06:00

A couple pictures. The first one here is an incomplete drawing called "Diverse Unity". As you can see, it is comprised completely of bicolored beings fit snugly into each others shapes like a jigsaw puzzle of diverse aliens.
The second one is called "Landescape" and was a pencil sketch of a mountain scene by my friend and roommate Dave, I completely changed its aura and turned it into a trippy foreign planet's frightening landscape. If turned to the left it assumes the figure of a profile image of an alien with a beautiful headdress. If turned upside down, a new landscape is revealed, with an earthlike crust, mantle, and core. One of the coolest drawings I have ever done and will make for a great poster sized print.

A Megapost

2008-07-24T21:33:00.005-06:00

A couple pictures that are relatively finished products, after microsoft paint touchups.

And a couple poems from my Gin 'n Tonic Demonic Phonic collection.

Word up
.
" El Conquistador "

ALIVE!!!
Barely coherent...
Darting evasively from gunfire...
hopeless...
I just killed lotsa mexicans,
named "Of Panzo" (Quixote's robust sucker *translation*),
Umberto,
Vincente Wesley Xavier,
y Zorro.

(untitled)

Always believing criterias demanded everyday, forging guarded honesty, I , Jeff, keep leaping moronicly near obvious perilous quasi-relationships, stuck totally unraveling viciously whilst xploring your zest.

The poetry collection is comprised of a strict rule of a-z... and sometimes... a-z-a.

Gallery

2008-07-15T16:19:00.001-06:00

If I was to make a gallery of my art from 2007 to 2008 available for purchase in the future, it would be composed of these drawings...insight? There are plenty of other great pictures I have drawn that could be on display but these are my choices. If you click on the image you can see the full size.

untitled or... "Natural Splenda"

"And You Thought the Earth was Complex?!" or "Then you looked up"

"Lost Grip"

"Embrace Eccentricity"

"Daliphants"

"Dogfight" or "Mushroom Cloud"

"Faces in the Crowd"

"Atrocious Alien Avians Attacking Another Aspiring Animal Actor" or "Foolishly Foul Fowl"

"Van Casso"

Bonvue Park

2008-07-03T21:45:00.003-06:00

I have recently completed art for an upcoming album's cover and backside imagery in addition to a logo for the band. The "Legends and Strange Dreams" album art will be available when the album is....november or something....the picture here is a band logo, originally in sharpie on white paper, now on display as a turtle, here seen with the alterations provided by Microsoft Paint and the background image provided by my photography in Holland.

www.myspace.com/bonvuepark

Newest Poem!

2008-06-26T01:12:00.005-06:00

After an audacious amount of attempts at alliterative "ado"'s about absolute abstractness...
I like to write short poems slash sentences...a to z, 26 words. I decided to mix it up and go back down the ladder, so I made an impromptu a-z-a, 51 words in response to a Facebook "Note" from a friend discussing why he is no longer a "Christian" but wants to express his loyalty to Christ and not the church or Christianity for what it is today, valiant, but thats not where I'm at right now, so I wrote this as a joke/ my perspective/ satire poem.

Draw-bba the Hutt

2008-06-23T15:26:00.008-06:00

This took quite a while considering the overall size of it...but getting every thing to work with the next part takes time. So many faces...and birds...and cool things to look at, I think, one of the best pictures I've made...until the next one that is.

This is a relatively finished product. It's my stee-lay.

I tried to add a Tiger friend...she sure is a chubby cat see? si.

Microsoft Paint

2008-06-04T16:53:00.002-06:00

Microsoft Paint, what a meticulous medium...but I love to utilize it.
I feel as though there is some sort of barrier keeping this being from its future.

Moleskin Microsoft Remixes.

2008-06-03T12:14:00.002-06:00

Just a few doodles from my Moleskin, the first two are adapted into remixes with microsoft paint, the last one here is the incomplete original,"Acid Gun"

Some Drawings of Songs

2008-06-01T13:56:00.001-06:00

the first one is The Decemberists - "The Mariner's Revenge Song" and is on a plain piece of hwhite paper cut out to look like a hwhale.
the second is Phish - "Cavern" complete with everything that the director needs...
I plan on making a t shirt out of the phish one.

already been created dubiously/erroneously...

2008-05-25T20:33:00.002-06:00

always beware, cautiously...

alleviated
by
conscious
delirious
experiences,
fortunately
god
/
he-man
is
just
kidding,
luring me,
nearly
oppressinging
purposefully,
quietly
repressing
stress
that
undermines
various
weaknesses
xpressing
your
zealousnessry.
now you know your abc's...
next time wont you sing with me?

A Prayer

2008-05-20T12:34:00.002-06:00

(practically) Postmodern Prayer

Remember when I used to pray?
you were supposed to say...
yay or nay anyday now.
Remember when I used to cry?
you were s'post to reply...
with reasons why and how.
Remember when I used to trust?
you were s'post to be just
Faith in you, your son, and spirit a must, I bowed bereft.
On my knees, eyes closed, the pious experience had left.
tried to please; lies opposed.
Remember when we used to talk?
you were s'post to not mock...
foundation on your rock.
Remember when I used to hope?
you were s'post to be dope
comfort me when I mope.
Remember when I used to Believe?

part poem, part prayer, completely pragmatic. notice the meter, its unique.
8 6 6 8 6 6 8 6 14 14 6 8 6 6 8 6 6 8.

Taste my sample!

2008-05-18T00:48:00.002-06:00

Despite the popular demand, Smith's invisible hand has limited the supply of poems created by the jeff anema in the last few months...but don't despair...they're there...just not ready to share...but because some of you do care...which is rare...i think its only fair...to give a glimpse.

"currently untitled and unfinished"

I hoped to see you
when you could be you,
but true enough
I blew it...
rough.
And said screw it.
tough.
move on,
stuff it back inside and hide the expression of any repression
avoid depression in
a void...
amid a procession presenting your presence with plentiful presents that pervade the people
and portray a powerful paternal protector practically perverted by pontificate predispositions.

and no im not depressed. nor have I been since the CCU New Student Retreat.

My Limited Photography

2008-05-08T11:50:00.005-06:00

I dont have a camera so I dont get to take many photos, but I like gettin artsy when I have the chance, despite the limited potential of the camera.

Intergalactic Warriors

2008-05-05T10:50:00.001-06:00

these universal soldiers are being sent to destroy the avian aliens.

Avian Alien Alliance

2008-05-05T10:48:00.001-06:00

a drawing i made of a couple birdlike entities feasting on a fallen fowl.

Stained Glass Window

2008-04-15T23:27:00.001-06:00

Some New Pictures

2008-04-10T19:41:00.003-06:00

Some new pictures, all of which are incomplete, and if youve seen any of my previous incomplete posts, be as excited as I am about the possibilities.

An Artist's Pain

2008-04-08T16:41:00.003-06:00

Amsterdam

2008-04-01T16:38:00.004-06:00

I got home from my BeNeLux trip yesterday.
I only wrote one poem and drew a few pictures.
The pictures may be posted later. Here is the poem and the picture that accompanies.
*****DISCLAIMER*****
rated R for
strong sexual and obscene language
drug references

"I'll Jam your Dam" by The Jeff Anema

Take a tiny trip to the Amsterdam.
Relax with a refreshment reserved for a relished repose from the rigors of reality.
Everyone around is enveloped in extracurricular experimentation.
Chill out and camp in a cozy canal avoiding adverse attention.
Enjoy the existential effects of your retreat into reefer, red eyed, embracing the eloquence of random realizations on the red lighted raunchy lust ridden lanes ready to rant and rave.
Peering perplexed at your peers as you pass paradoxical places, pondering personal problems.
Faced with flawed facades, flying high! Feeling horny for a filthy whore who hopelessly fingers for fools to fuck as she feigns happiness
in a fake half smile,
all the while freeing her mind
from the vile half mile, forgetting the fresh memory of another phallus
filled with bile, prophylactically penetrating and pounding passionately with
guiltless guarded guile. The gaudy streets teem with trendy types tirelessly trudging through tourist traps taking time to talk in freaky deaky dutch about how much their town rocks.

At peace with my piece

2008-03-06T16:43:00.003-07:00

it has taken me quite some time to finish this drawing but I am finally done with it. Not completely content yet completely proud.

Drugs...?

2008-03-04T14:51:00.003-07:00

I recently came across an advertisement on the side of my Facebook profile. Its only the 2nd ad I have ever clicked on from Facebook ( I am relatively against advertising on my social networking, but they gotta do what they gotta do I guess...) and I was incredibly empathetic to the thesis and information the book has to offer. I haven't read it yet...I have perused many of the pages given as a Primer for the rest of the implications and theories on Drugs and their useage, abuseage, and tabooage.
I have always been very interested in the history of criminalization of drugs and understanding why and where false science is used to justify the delegalization of substances. Marijuana has always served as my primary focus for the injustices imposed on my personal freedoms by the "just" laws of America...and other countries America bullies around to keep them from decriminalization.
I could write a paper on these ideas and implications and offer my own beliefs on what to do about it...and I already have, freshman year of college I made it a point to academically engage the history and modern dillemas of drugs. My writing was not nearly as informative and interesting as this new book I have come across.
"You Will Die : The Burden of Modern Taboos" by Robert Arthur. Check it out. Or if you dont read books...http://www.suburra.com/
also, the illustrations are sweet, like an artist and writer after my own true heart...

Spineless

2008-03-04T12:43:00.001-07:00

These spines are two separate entities superimposed together to create a spinal bond. This is spinal tap.

Blissnorance

2008-02-21T18:23:00.007-07:00

If Nietzsche's a nihilist
comforted by nothing and
Christians are content
in their hope that is everything.
Then Buddhism is brave
by enlightenment in existentialism and
Islam is imperative
in God's grandly given graces.
In all philosophies on human existence
one has to let go and see beyond themselves through the hole of the whole.
With the inability to admit they know nothing and
frustrations with false and fickle faiths failing to explain the void, one becomes annoyed as
the mysteries of life become obsolete
in achieving understanding that an entire achievement of knowledge is unachievable.
The humility of humanities hold on the holy is hardly a hope in hoaxes
but a blissnorance, bellowing wisdom
in a wary belittling of wanton beliefs.
Despite the desire to understand the design of their mind
they embrace the eccentricities of esoteric existence
and faithfully accept an attention to the benefits of blissnorant belief and boast that
blissnorance is basically the best bet for a bright and beneficial basis of beliefs.

The Law

2008-02-21T11:54:00.002-07:00

I have recently come across a book written in 1849 by some French dude named Frederic Bastiat. It is called "The Law:The Classic Blueprint for a Free Society"
I am pretty obsessed with the idea of freedom that is an obvious facade in my American existence and this book shined light on some beautiful ideas and ideals.
The government has been plundering, taking liberties away, providing false justice, and overall pwning us since its inception. I haven't formulated many of my own ideas on what to do about all of these ideas on freedom and such, but it is still awesome to engage in it. Check it out!

Doodle Dandies

2008-02-19T22:12:00.001-07:00

5 and 6 sided explosions in the sky. Wheres that diamond studded Lucy?

Good V. Evil

2008-02-15T18:36:00.000-07:00

My first sweet Microsoft Paint Picture I drew that pretty much inspired me to start drawing with Sharpies in an attempt to recreate the picture on paper or canvas. That still hasn't happened.

My Egg Project

2008-02-15T18:33:00.001-07:00

I wanted to draw a picture with an egg. Then I thought of the Dali painting that I love about the the metamorphosis of Narcissus. So I drew this...that minimally adjusted it on Microsoft Paint.

Crocs

2008-02-14T12:46:00.001-07:00

Embrace

2008-02-14T12:45:00.000-07:00

I Lava You

2008-02-14T12:44:00.001-07:00

A Dull Tree

2008-02-14T12:43:00.001-07:00

Carry that Weight

2008-02-14T12:40:00.000-07:00

Colored Person

2008-02-14T11:45:00.000-07:00

Radically Reflecting on the Reformation Realistically

2008-02-14T11:42:00.000-07:00

Clamoring and clawing courageously conceding crass curtly courtesy,
Freedom fails in fanatic facades of flawed faculty firings.
While students starve to surreptiously snatch scholarship and struggle to supercede strangulation
Conservatism conveys Christ confidently...
Coercing chosen children into capitalistic cohesion as cohorts of conformity create costly catastrophes, Christlike?
Teachers tie their tongues to transform thoughts of "treachery" to treasures of Testamental trudgery.
Those who seek power are those who attain
as the meek cower to shut off their brain.
We've all got idealogical and theological differences
while philosophical and cosmological instances
negated the heresies of penances...
administrative orthodoxy threatens truth
and manipulates men of meager meaningful musings
maybe mimicking monasticism means merely maximizing mastery in monetary misconceptions...
probably not.
Throw the theses on the door,
reform what you abhor,
rethink who and what you live your life for.
w w j d? forgive me!?
probably not.

My first Free Verse Poem

2008-02-14T11:37:00.000-07:00

"Man Rover"

This is prompted by the sudden attainment of knowledge regarding the man who has apparently been running the country in the last 10 years.
It is hard to say exactly which strings being pulled are dangling from this Gipetto's hands...
but the acquisition of knowledge entailing his regency has prompted and promulgated
yet another realization regarding the ridiculously preposterous
moments of manipulation in the land of the melting pot.
Karl Rove is basically an offensive individual to me.
His wikipedia page is longer than the entirety of kenya's phallic consensus....(long!)
He has been the master of puppets in his game of personal gain,
sacrificing innocence, in a religious affair.
Spiritually sanctified in the sanctity of dollars.
Sleep escapes Rove in rest....worrying....fretting.......sweating..........why? fear...
fear of a loss in his stock? of course not, thats just a part of his plot.
fear of an indictment? a doubtful event, he has backed every judge and their heir apparent...
Apparently, the man I have been most disheartened and disenchanted with in the past
and entailing years was just a Queen in his game (a bush is no pawn).
This enlightenment is nothing but discouragement.
If life is about achieving wisdom, intellectual stimulation, and ultimate understanding,
then why does my face form a frown when I learn another Truth.
Truth as I understand it depends on who has conveyed it...Who knows what truth is...
Truth is based on a fact. Whoever experienced that fact conveys it to others as Truth.
How can they trust it is Truth? Truth becomes truth as soon as the experience isn't personal.
The apparent truth is that Karl Rove has been manipulating and mastering many domestic and international events in the last 10 years.
Basically...as freely as I can verse it,
he's a douche.

Sad romance

2008-02-14T11:35:00.000-07:00

You're surely sure that your pure...Insanity's vanity's cure.
forget yourself!
Narcissus says this less than your mess of a self.
Obsessed with your insignificance to the point of caloused self importance.

I tell her: You see nothing...
You think you see...
But you dont really look.
Wait...
No!
You look.
And you think you see.
But you dont really see.
That's what I was trying to say...
with a sneer,
and a snicker,
and a scandalous stare. (hey there)
She says : You are making no sense Jeff-rey you are nuts.
I say : Shucks...

"last Pen"

2008-02-14T11:29:00.000-07:00

Its not universalism, everything revolves around a personal system.
Most mediocrity is met merely manageably amonst men.
Various volatilizable versions vindicate valiance even vocationally.
Easy exit. Existentialists enlighten every egomaniac.
May materialism monumentally maximize mistaken minimalism as
Justice juxtaposes jurisdiction and jokers while
--Strangled students struggle spiritually,--
sensitive to the s(o/u)n
Unknown underlings undermine the understanding, unearthing uneasy unctions.
Neptune's nearness negates any notable national notoriety.
forget the Plan its now.

Music

2008-02-14T11:18:00.000-07:00

I love music,
the fusing
of sounds so profound
with beats that pound
round methodical
melodical rhythms
through schizms
of the heard.
At times more powerful than any word,
transforming notes of ink into
boats so distinct,
vessels so succint.
Maneuvering your senses
You cant see...no lenses,
microscopic to the 100 degree
could capture the beauty
in the sounds as they usurp your body
into moves squares deem naughty
forcing every muscle to do the hustle
hikin up the pants,
breakin out into dance
and physically and spiritually manifest
noise into poses of poise.
Pirouettes of pangent precision,
whatever dancing decision
all end in a rhythmic position.
Slave to the music, sweet music, beautifully powerful,
whipping its way through your non wan waist.
No waste to fret
just taste the sweat
moves you wont regret
get set
Go!
show me how you get get down,
dont fake a frown,
like you dont want it...
like you dont flaunt it....
You tease to please.
Off your knees,
rid yourself of the disease to appease
to the norm and conform to the worm.
That dance is outdated, overrated, and I hate it.
So get back up on your feet,
do something sweet,
make it no small feat,
repeat,
for an effect out of this world,
setting your mark on the boys and girls
as the one
that has the most fun,
feeling the use of the muse of the music in the musical musicianship rip through your body
as you become a somebody
who gets down to the phattest sound,
talked about all over town,
a somebody who gets down.

Painted Pollock Poetry (the color M)

2008-02-14T11:10:00.000-07:00

Microcosms multiply and mold into the macrocosms
meaning....men meander through minor moments
maximizing and mustering meaning more monumental than measly misconceptions on morality and maturation, making merely miniscule mistakes,
mostly metamorphosing and mastering mental musings, momentarily mixing and merging merit with martyrdom.

Personal Development Poem

2008-02-14T11:05:00.000-07:00

Oneiric ideas lead you in your youth to try and achieve inscrutable nascent theories.
Cerebration nonchalantly creates a chimerical coxcomb of a child.
Life leans towards lassitude and your inexorable exploration of existance reaches esoteric esteem.
I reek of bleak beliefs and proselytized lies.
Tries at explaining the inexplainable only end in cries of remorse.
A throat thats hoarse and ideas off course.