These paintings are
done on a hot plate. Tom heats up a metal canvas and melts fancy crayons
on the surface. Sometimes Tom plugs into the street light boxes to power
the heating element. 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 a round tray 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. This makes for intense work. You are not distracted
by changing brushes, mixing color or reloading the brush. The canvas started
as aluminum then 30 gauge galvanized duct material, now it is 30 gauge
resin coated flashing metal. The heater has magnets so the metal canvas
sticks to the surface. You move the metal around to heat only the surface
you are working on.
Clifton Gaslight IV,
20” x 16", Oil pastel melted on thirty gauge metal, February
26, 2014
The scene is from Holidays on Ludlow” with the horse drawn carriage
picking up passengers in front of Graeter’s Ice Cream. The sky and
street are enhanced by rendering them with high key color, each area having
many colors from the complete spectrum.
The color wheel palette
of oil pastels on a rotating pedestal with values of colors from light
to dark.
Ski Bunny, 12"
x 16", Oil on 20 gauge metal, January 9, 2014
Telford Avenue III,
20 " x 16", Oil pastel melted on thirty gauge metal, February
2, 2014
The scene was painted from life in the Om Café during the Sunday
Jazz brunch. The snow conditions give it a somber mood blotting out most
of the detail. Tom’s intention is to paint Clifton Gaslight’s
Ludlow Avenue over and over in the tradition of the Parisian masters.
The new manner makes this possible by delivering a riveting, alive, work
that breaks new ground for an appreciating audience.
Clifton Gaslight III, 12" x 16", Oil pastel melted on thirty
gauge metal, February 8, 2014
Finished. Inspired by Edouard Cortez, Eugene Galien-Laloue, Luigi Loir
and Jean Beraud. The rough work is the new rough. The color wax sticks
melted onto a hot metal is alive even after it cools. In the past Tom
relied on the time of day painting in the street to dictate the light
and color of the painting but now he needs to give the painting everything
it needs. In the past he shied away from dawn or dusk paintings thinking
it was kitsch, low-brow style of mass-produced art or design using popular
or cultural icons. This new medium wants him paint all the light effects.
A community art show
and event of creative expressions for Peace and Justice
Late May into June @The Art Academy of Cincinnati, 1212 Jackson St, downtown
Cincinnati
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. He adds this
ongoing project to the battle.
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
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
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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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