Loslohbros - Tom Lohner

Hey, i am Andy Lohner, an Austrian artist based in London. This is my personal site which shows a selection of the artwork i have done.
I also work as a Graphic & Communication Designer which is see at Bubbles & Bones | Creative Collective which i am a co-founder of.

My influences come from everyday life, the travelling I've done throughout the years and some of the styles i`ve seen on my way. I love to paint
handwritten types as well as use my own handwriting to create a poetic and alive atmosphare. Sometimes they are only added to pictures and sometimes
they can be the main theme. Communication is not only what you read, it is what makes you read (David Carson)! I love the floral juvenile style and a
lot of the hand made types around the turn of the 19th/20th century. Hard to say what really influences someone, if it is the japanese wood prints or
the indonesian wood cariving or the music you grow up with? Everyday life, friends andfamily might be the answer. What i can say is, that I love to
be out in nature enjoing the day with good people, working with different materials, recycling old brocken things into new canvas, bringing it back to life.

"The process is my goal!"

a day out with my friend roman

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Thanks to my Family, Friends and all the nice
people which i am stoked to have met during my
life. Let's see where it'll bring me;)!

This is a selection of pieces and sketches i did over the years, to show where I came from and where I am going artwise.
What started with black and white illustration, turned into a colourful acrylics. I never was to much of a canvas user, it is good from
time to time. Mostly it's been paper or some material or trash which I use as a canvas. On one hand it is a good way of recycling and on
the other hand it makes usally a much more intressting canvas.

Paranoid - vinyl 10

acryl on a recycled LP, early jan 10

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The inspiration came from the psycodalic print in the center of the vinyl,
which reminded my of the Black Sabbath Paranoid SIngle. So it was simple,
check out the lyrics of the song and you will find out why you can spot the lonely
wolf. I coloured him white because of two reasons. Firstly to pop out more and
secondly to make him look a bit more like a ghost, who could disappear any second.

The Cream - vinyl 09

acryl on a recycled LP, late dec 09

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I started to paint several LPs by spinning the vinyls on the turntable. After getting
the colours composed right, i would lay back and let it speak to me. This one was obvious,
i had just put on a record of The Cream onto my turntable. With the first cords of the
whiteroom came the spark - The Cream! It might not look like a design for the band
but it made it clear what i should do. It is plain, simple and works!

The Rocketman - vinyl 09

acryl on a recycled LP, late dec 09

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I believe that this one was the first LP which I spinned colours on. The rocketman is a
symbol of freedom and simplicity. There is this memory in my head when I took my brother
the first time down to the river to surf some highwater riverwaves. I think it was his second
or third try when he fell with a superman pose into the water. He recalled that in this moment,
he heard the the Elton John song The Rocket Man. I remember walking up the river back to the wave,
seeing him totally relaxed enjoying the moment. So this vinyl is dedicated to the song - check out
the lyrics, they are simple but they tell a good story of a settled working man.

The Piano Man - vinyl 09

acryl on a recycled LP, late dec 09

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This one must have been the second one I did. The Piano Man is a song I know since I've been
a small child, there is a cassette which has the chart of Rock 104 North Floridas Rock Station
and Billy Joel had the first five slots in it, with The Piano Man being number one. The song
has a timeless lyric for me, simple and tells a good story. I took the LP cover of the Record
and mad him look a bit older and more like a ghost. I used the lyric part "it is said and sweet
and i knew it complete, when I wore a younger man's cloths" to underline the faded look of the image.

The Green One - vinyl 09

acryl on a recycled LP, late dec 09 till feb 10

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My goal in this record was to get fresh green earthy colours together. I started to scratch
the colour and write some words into it, after spinning the colours. It is an impression
of roots and music, combined with some personal feelings. It has a story and expression in one.

Hoagy Carmichael - mixmedia screenprint 08

acryl and pigments on 400g papper, five time screenprinted back colour, summer 08

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The print started with a sketch I did of hoagy carmichael, a hollywood musician I stumbled over
in a small shopping-center in rovaniemi, lapland. it was in a box of one euro prized records and
thanks to louis armstong, i decided to buy another record of an old musicmaster.

The first time i was listening to the record was on the way down to tampere. i had to get out of
the train at some point to check something about my ticket. when i went out of the train the whole
scenery was magic! fresh snow, red purple and blue skies. people with thick coats getting off and
on the train. the conductor was calling me to come quickly. i was tattered between running back and
getting my camera or getting my ticket done, somewhere in the middle of nowhere.

in the end i decided to get on the train. otherwise my friends down south would have waited for me another day.
that's why the print is so special to me. it pictures that beautiful scenery of which i never took a picture.

Ira Hayes - iris, screenprint 08

two colour irsprinted, one screen black, summer 08

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This is actually a gigposter, well that's what it should have been. i guess
it's just a bit to exquisite for it (too small stock for the purpose;)

the topic is the ira hayes bird, somewhere in the swamp. it has f-holes on his neck just like on
a fency guitar. there are strings running down his neck turning into a writing which says love...music!!

ira hayes is written behind the bird. next to it there are three gig-dates. they all come good across,
thanks to the irisprint, giving it the feeling to be rather a series than a stock.

Portrait in Mont Matre - sketch 08

biro sketch on paper, summer 08

Sometimes in life you see really deep going character,
which their face seem to tell their whole stories.

Wave Illustration - sketch 08

inc sketch on paper, summer 08

Illustration of text and waves tell the story that nature
is by far stronger than humans. Something we often forget.
Waves are only one of the things which give us a small tast for it.
But never forget what pleasure it can give us, when we work with it!

Selfpotrait - sketch 08

inc sketch on paper, summer 08

A quick sketch of a face, it turned out that it looked a bit like me.
It wasn't ment to be a selfportait, just something what happend.

Hangten - sketch 08

biro on paper, summer 08

The headman hanging ten. Just a little sketch i did.

Little Falcon - sketch 08

inc on paper, summer 08

One of the many quick sketches I did, the alive stroke sometimes can give far more
impression than some of the big piece, 'cause it reflects the emotion.

Woodhead Bali - 07

pencil on paper, done in bali summer 07

I did this one after a good surf session in bali. They have an amazing woodcraft culture,
something you can see all over the island, in their architecture as well as in their traditional cloths.
Something which they might loose with the wrong kind of tourism!

Teddybear - sketch 07

pencil on paper, 07

A simple sketch of a teddybear. Some might say inspired by a corn album,
honestly I don't - it might be it might won't be, just a simple easy sketch.

Candles - sketch 07

pencil on paper, 07

I did this sketch while listening to soundgarden, probably one of the best bands
of the ninties, in my eyes every record rocks! Candles burned out yesterday...
a phrase which burned into my brain, Cornell wrote it in thought of his old roommate,
which died, that's how i would recall it.

Woodhead number one - between 03 & 06

biro on paper, 06

This was the first woodhead i've ever done, it is dated 06 but honestly i
think it was before, maybe even 04. Well sometime ago, I have done them ever since.
Used that one for a sticker.

Hatman - between 03 & 06

biro on paper, 06

Similar with the headman, I do not know when I did this one,
but i can say it is quite some time ago. Here he is, the master of reality!

Nature meets the City Situation - between 03 & 06

ink on paper, 06

I combined a few typical elements I used to do. It was only a brief sketch,
but somehow it just lasted that long and still pops up on the website.
There is something about the strokes and wildness, the two people
looking up and thinking what went wrong.

Falcon Roots - between 03 & 06

ink on paper, 06

I always was fascinated by birds of pray. These two falcons are
combined with the style I started to develop during that time,
the style of wood grain and roots.

Falcon Plant - between 03 & 06

ink on paper, 06

It shows a plant which is made out of different elements of nature.
Falcons, waves and a lot of the things which always fascinated me.
Nature is really a great thing in our life, something we shoud be
more aware of and something we should take more care of!

Headmankid - illustration 03

watercolour illustration on paper, fall 03

I did this illustration back in my days, during my education in artschool.
For sure one of my key pieces!

In this section you can see a few outtakes of the photos i have taken through the years. It is hard reduce them
from thousands down to a hand full. As soon as i find time I will display a bigger variety.

People

Travel

Europe by Designers

I contributed some of my work to this project. It is a composition out of photos and
an illustrated poem. See more of it on the link. check it out

I started Surfing in Florida in 2000. I will never forget, how my dad pushed me into
my first waves after a big thunderstorm at Crescent Beach, not far away of the beach I
did my first steps. He probably knew before that this will be love at first sight, could
tell by the way he looked at me, when our friends, the Mays, said that they would have some
old surfboards from their grandfather hanging around in the garage. I stood up on the
second wave and i have been riding this wave since ever then. The only wave which i could
compare with this one, might be the one which i caught on my first self-shaped surfboard.

It lit a flame, which burns high - conbining art, craft and performance!

PICS COMING SOON

It is not hard to become a board freak growing up in the alps and partially at the beach. It feel's good to know that I can
give a bit back to the sport which gave so much during my childhood and teen (and still does). Snowboarding is a very creative
sport, the whole aspect of own riding style to the lines you choose on the way down. Here is a overview of the graphics i have done!

Enlighten - 09/10

Lib Tech Sketch - 09/10

Lamar Morph - 08/09

Soulfull coloured design, which tell alot of stories, onto a tapered soulfull freerider powderstick. Some is in our face and the others
are well hiddn. It is a board which a rider can always discover through out the years new, in finding new little details, stories hints.
CLOSE UP: The collage is made out of diverent ethnic faces. In Austria we say "The way you haller in to the woods
is the way it will haller back" and that's pretty much what the whole graphic is about.

Lamar Ainjel - 08/09

It is a girls twintip, which means the board is the same ridden both ways. That's the reason why the the graphic is
centered. Abstract in the begining up it tell's it story it's self. Girls sometime just have bigger balls then guys.
CLOSE UP: On the close up you can see that the pattern is part of the girls hair, which she is about to cut off.
You can also see the nice grain of the bamboo inlay.

Lamar Endless - 08/09

This is again a twintip design (see discr. #3). It should not just feel the same ridden both ways, it should
also look the same. Very dark design, all in black gold and silver. From farway you can see a mystery forrest,
but if you look closer you can spot all the faces and skulls in it.
CLOSE UP: Golden skulls, in pirate style. They have a twisty story to it.

Lamar Realm - 08/09

The design was made for a skate shop at home in Graz/Austria in 2004. Which was the key to the series which was done.
This was the pieces the artdirector Sonya Laurenssen was going for.

LTD Sinister - 08/09

A earth design with a lot of sketchy parts in it, which keeps it alive. The graphic is all about
balance and traveling - all about keeping our planet clean! Give and get!

LTD Helix - 08/09

This is what comes out when alot of friends start drawing faces. A very sketchy but also detailed graphic - a lot to see! Thanks to Sims & Fu.
CLOSE UP: Type close up. Background of the writting done by Sims.

Lamar 450 Bindings - 08/09

Lamar 350 Bindings - 08/09

Lamar 350 Bindings Girls - 08/09

Lamar Power Boots - 08/09

Lamar Delta Boots - 08/09