The combined forces of his formal training, quick graffiti chops, and expert skills as a draftsman, along with
multiple artistic influences (Mexican Muralists, tramp art, surfer culture, graffiti from the 1970s and 1980s, the beat poets, geometric abstraction, op art, early video and site - specific works, graphic design, typography, and cartoons) have factored into his unwieldy, yet unmistakable visual lexicon.
Thomas has drawn inspiration from
multiple artistic periods and cultural
influences throughout Western art history, particularly the early modernists such as Jean - Auguste - Dominique Ingres, Pablo Picasso, Henri Matisse, Edouard Manet, and Romare Bearden.