These paintings are
done on a hot plate. Tom plugs into the street light boxes used for the
holiday lights and heats up metal and melts the oil pastels on the metal.
A busy body called the police and complained Tom was using City power
so they sent two officers to shut him down. Later he found out the Clifton
Business and Professional Association owns the sockets so there is no
problem using them. He uses trays of wax sticks as his palette. The fun
part of this technique is you select the color stick and melt it on the
surface without going to the palette to reload your brush. The canvas
is 30 gauge galvanized duct material. The griddle has magnets embedded
in it so the metal sticks to the surface. You move the metal around to
heat only the surface you are working on.
Crew Tower,
Cincinnati, Ohio; 12" x 16", Oil on aluminum, August 30, 2013,
available
Aunt
Ginny, 12" x 16", Oil on 20 gauge metal, November 26, 2013
While in New Orleans,
Tom worked on his NOLA motif but came up not with what he discovered in
their last visit, a woman on a balcony, but paintings of the friends and
family in the NOLA scene. Getting ready for Aunt Ginny’s visit,
Tom told daughter and her cousin that Aunt Ginny was the closest thing
to Jacquelyn Onassis they would ever meet. She was smart, poised, beautiful,
quite, polished, the perfect mother. She arrived and was all that and
more. A great visit after her driving up the hour or so from Pax Christian.
Cold, windy and raining, we stay in the room and had pizza while Tom painted
her knitting blankets for her new great grandchildren. She brought some
books from their sailing days and Tom selected three. They remember her
husband, Tom's uncle, who died this time six years ago.
Telford Avenue, Clifton,
Cincinnati; 16" x 12", Oil on aluminum, July 20, 2013, available
Clifton Gaslight II,
Cincinnati; 16" x 20", Oil on aluminum, July 25, 2013, available
Clifton Gaslight Balcony,
Cincinnati; 24" x 20", Oil on 25 gauge galvanized metal, Work
in progress, available
Jami and Friend, 12"
x 16", Oil pastel on metal, September 10, 2013
Clifton Gaslight,
Cincinnati, Ohio, July 10, 2013, 16" x 12", Oil pastel on aluminum,
painted from life
Devou Park, Covington,
Kentucky, Oil pastel on metal, 24" x 20", September 15, 2013
Ludlow and Telford
Avenues III, Clifton, Cincinnati; 16" x 12", Oil on aluminum,
July 15, 2013, available
Ceasar Creek Glider
Port, Waynesville, Ohio, 16" x 12", Oil on aluminum, July 14,
2013, available
Ludlow and Telford
Avenues II, Clifton, Cincinnati; 16" x 12", Oil on aluminum,
July 7, 2013, available
Ludlow and Telford
Avenues I, Clifton, Cincinnati; 16" x 12", Oil on aluminum,
July 1, 2013
At 11 p.m. Monday,
June 18, 2012 fifteen-year-old Africa Hope was killed by a stray bullet
at 1700 Vine Street, Cincinnati, Ohio. This portrait placed at the site
after being in the SOS show.
Winning second place
in the juried Golden Ticket Art Show at the Clifton Cultural Arts Center
in Clifton, Cincinnati, Ohio verified what Tom is experiencing.
Realtor yard signs
repainted with a portrait of a gun violence victim placed where they died,
provide a positive colorful happy catalyst to solve gun violence. Help
a "at Risk" person. Be part of the solution. Apathy is the problem.
The signs—revered by community— are everlasting remembrances.
With each sign Tom
experiences something like a block buster movie with characters larger
than life. He learns about the victim and meets the family. They live
larger lives, the highest highs and lowest lows. The portraits are larger
than art. Tom becomes a pawn in a complex battle to live in a safe productive
world.
Creating a painting
against gun violence does not solve the problem. It is the grunt on the
ground that solves gun violence. Social networks solve gun violence. Slogans,
art, songs and preaching help solve gun violence but it is the grunt on
the ground makes the change.
Tom plans on painting
at these spots looking for the beautiful. He will befriend the residences
and make a change. With everyone stepping up and taking back their streets
we can solve this problem.
Many people are working
on this problem. Many events draw attention to gun violence. I add this
ongoing project to the battle.
A community art show
and event of creative expressions for Peace and Justice
May 31 – June 9
@The Art Academy of Cincinnati, 1212 Jackson St, downtown Cincinnati
Fountain Square XL,
May 24, 2013, 12" x 16", Oil pastel on aluminum, Adaption of
a 1994 series of fountain paintings done on the skywalk during a festival.
The series of four are bird-eye views done on location near the fountain
but not actuality seeing the fountain. The buildings are suggested by
stripes of vertical color. These early paintings lend themselves to being
reinterpreted using the pixelated painting manner melting oil pastels
on a heated surface similar to his painting machine.
Phil, 12" x 16",
Oil pastel on aluminum, May 16, 2013
Gaylord Texas Station,
10" x 8", Oil pastel on aluminum, May 4, 2013
Emily West Morgan,
Yellow Rose of Texas, 10" x 8", Oil pastel on aluminum, May
2, 2013
Mary Kay of Mary Kay
Cosmetics , 10" x 8", Oil pastel on aluminum, May 2, 2013
Tom paints Uncle Jim's
portrait in the family room of the rehabilitation facility he is staying
at recovering from a fall.
Uncle Jim, May 5,
2013, 8" x 10", oil pastel on aluminum, nine color palette
The finished portrait
with Aunt Linda and Uncle Jim, the portrait took about a half hour with
their children and spouses looking on.
Dough, May 6, 2013,
8" x 10", oil pastel on aluminum, nine color palette
Grapevine Lake, Dallas
Texas, May 5, 2013, 8" x 10", oil pastel on aluminum, nine color
palette
Painting on location
on Grapevine Lake, Texas
April 4, 2013, Angela
Grayson's portrait on a realtor yard sign placed where she was killed
by a stray bullet while waiting for a bus in Avondale, Cincinnati in at
11 a.m. Tuesday, April 24, 2006.
Gaylord Texan
River Walk, April 26, 2013, 10" x 8", oil pastel on aluminum,
nine color palette, available
Fountain Square XXXIX, December
5, 2012, 24" x 24", Acrylic on canvas ,
available
Aunt Nancy, May 6,
2013, 8" x 10", oil pastel on aluminum, nine color palette
John Adams after Gilbert Stewart, wax on plexiglas.
5" x 7", November 2011,
available
John Kennedy after Norman Rockwell, wax on plexiglas.
5" x 7", November 2011
Jacqueline Kennedy after Jacques Lowe, wax on plexiglas.
5" x 7", November 2011
Bather after Degas, wax on plexiglas. 5" x
7", November 2011,
available
One Man Art Sale, after 7:45 p.m. at the Clifton Performance
Theater, 404 Ludlow Avenue, 45220. Showing new work on the set while painting
on stage. If you see the shingle, stop in.
Fountain Square XXXVI, July 2, 2012, 5" x 7",
Acrylic on board,
available
Fountain Square XXXVII, July 3, 2012, 5" x
7", Acrylic on board,
available
Tom Lohre wins Second Place at the Golden Ticket
September 7, 2012 for Earnest Crear, Latex on board, 50” x 19”
x 1”, May 15, 2012, 18” x 12” board from a realtor sign
painted on both sides an impressionistic portrait of Earnest Crear and
placed in metal realtor frame. To be placed at Rockdale Avenue and Knotts
Street where Earnest Crear was fatally shot, August 18, 2007. Full story
at SOS.htm
Fountain Square XXXV, July 1, 2012, 5" x 7",
Acrylic on board,
available
Fountain Square XXXIV, June 26, 2012, 5" x
7", Acrylic on board,
available
Butchie Wood 12/9/75 to 6/6/2011, Acrylic on board,
June 21, 2012
Clifton Meadows, 6' x 3', Acrylic on board, June
11, 2012, available
Rosemary Clooney, 8" x 10", Acrylic on
board, May 21, 2012
Earnest Crear, Oil
on board, 5" x 7", May 19, 2012Earnest Crear, Latex on board,
50” x 19” x 1”, May 15, 2012, 18” x 12”
board from a realtor sign painted on both sides an impressionistic portrait
of Earnest Crear and placed in metal realtor frame. To be placed at Rockdale
Avenue and Knotts Street where Earnest Crear was fatally shot, August
18, 2007. Full story at SOS.htm
SOS ART 2013, May
31 to June 9 at The Art Academy of Cincinnati, 1212 Jackson St, Cincinnati,
OH 45202, a group art show and event of sociopolitical expressions for
peace and justice, in its 11th consecutive year. Opening, Artists Talk,
and potluck Reception: Friday May 31, 6 p.m.-12 a.m.
Fountain Square XXVI, 16" x 12", Oil on canvas, July 22, 2011,
available
Another in a long line of fountain paintings this one started in the spring
while Helen was still in school. The painting will be a stepping off point
for the next series of abstract colorful paintings done in the varnish manner.
Tom talks about his glow-in-the-dark painting.
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Richard T Farmer, Oil on board, 12" x 16",
April 18th, 2008, Richard Farmer, Founder & Chairman of the Board
of Cintas Corporation spoke at Xavier University on April 18th, 2008 as
part of the Distinguished Speakers Series. All were welcome to hear his
talk, "10 Important Experiences Over 50 Years in Business. "
Herb Feldman, Oil on canvas, detail
Joan, oil on canvas, 10" x 10",
available
Hiroshima mon Amore, Oil on canvas,
1979, available
Rhett Fire & Mel Odem, 5' x
4', oil on canvas, July 1st, 1983
Bahamian Home, 20" x 16",
watercolor on paper, 1995,
available
Devou
Park Clubhouse, 16" x 12", oil on board, September 21, 2008,
available
THE GREAT TOMASO
Art Machines Powered by
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To visit the wacky world of "The Great
Tomaso."
The bicycle has it’s own colorful propeller and
balloons attached to a bar that encircles the driver and passenger. As
they ride, many times they leave the ground.
The pushcart is the circus floor for the small Art
Machines. ,
available
The Side Show takes place on top of the pushcart.The
art pushcart is made out of light materials and has an awning over the
box’s top working surface. The art pushcart will roll on three large
wheels and have fourth leg thatdrops down next to the fourth small wheel,
one handle at one end will help push it. The art pushcart will be made
so it can roll on the sidewalks. It will be colorfully painted.
"Artisto" the
automata painting machine paints Chad Johnson.
Chad Johnson, 16" x 20", September 2007,
Wax on aluminum sheet
This is the second painting done with the Lego robot assistant, "Artisto."
The face is a Bengal receiver. The face is set in the mask of a tiger.
Tom used strong colors to accent the eight colors available in the robot
assisted process.
Irene, 16" x 20", August 2007
The first painting done by "Artisto" using glow in the dark
colors makes use of a strong combination of colors for a powerful graphic
effect. The sky comes to life in the dark. Two different glow in the dark
colors, blue and orange, where used for the background.
Mike Wilger, proprietor
of the Visual History Gallery, works with "Artisto."
Shown at
January 2008 at Sitwell's Coffee House, 324 Ludlow Ave., Cincinnati OH
45220
April 18 to May 18, 2008 at Visual History Gallery, 2709 Observatory Ave,
Cincinnati, OH 45208, 513-871-6065
fine
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