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Portraits Painted in the Traditional MannerEvery portrait is special to you, the one painted and the artist. Tom will make the portrait creation desirable to all three. Anything is possible: charcoal, watercolor and oil portraits can be done quickly if necessary. Tom likes to take as much time as he can when creating art. Tom likes to visit with the subject once a week, staying about one hour. During that time he will make sketches, take photos and have the subject sit for a few minutes. Children love the process and look forward to his visits. It is a sad day when he no longer visits. A drawing is done in pencil on the canvas using the composition ideas of the client, once approved the painting begins. Painting is wet on wet, each section is completed while the paint is wet. When the paint starts to congeal painting that section stops. When Tom starts a face he brings the canvas to the sitter for a live sitting. After working in the studio almost completing the face he will return for another live sitting. Tom borrows the sitter’s clothes and dresses up a wire mannequin for the clothes and works from life. The background is painted completing the portrait Click to see recent portraits of children..
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Clifton Family, 24"
x 20", oil on canvas, December 2009Started in April 2008 after a hiatus of two years waiting for the baby to grow up. Sketches were agreed on and work commenced with Tom painting in the side yard of the neighbors home for the summer. Work progressed from right to left. The dogs were painted first then the master and his wife. Painting has recommenced at the Cincinnati Sports Club where Tom had a show of paintings in the lobby in March and April 09 and took advantage of a invitation to paint there to paint the children. He has been spent a week on each figure. Tom has changed his medium, the oil he paints with during this painting. Since it was started in April of 2008, Tom has changed from 1/2 Demar varnish 1/2 stand oil to 4/5 stand oil 1/5 poppy oil. Stand oil is thickened linseed oil that does not yellow as much. Both mediums had oil of clove added to retard drying. Toms new medium has a longer drying time and does not thickened as much before setting. Tom manner is to paint with this medium tinting the medium to create the color. Most colors created using the white of the canvas as the white. Only in the darkest parts of the painting does the saturation of oil colors prevent the white of the canvas from showing through. Tom does this because of his fascination with the surface of painting. This manner allows the most exciting surface. The final painting on the home done in the summer of 09 and the new baby added in December. This is the next level of Tom's work with little people. Three years prior he started with a series of small works each with an individual of about 6 inches high. In this work, the 6-inch figures are actual people.
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Rob Portman, Oil on
board, 12" x 16", April 24, 2008 Richard T Farmer,
Oil on board, 12" x 16", April 18th, 2008 Herb Feldman, oil on canvas,
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Tom Lohre & AG Lafley, Chairman & CEO of Proctor & Gamble with his portrait. http://tomlohre.com/lafley.htm A.G. Lafley enjoyed hearing of Tom's painting robot and thought it played well to his new book: "The Game-Changer: How You Can Drive Revenue and Profit Growth With Innovation." Later Tom's painting robot produced a work derived from Mr. Lafley's image shown to the left of the photo above.
Click image to see larger image.Louise Kats, New York City, 48" x 48", 1981Dick Foster, 16" x 20", oil on canvas, 1989 Mr. McIntosh, 30" x 40", oil on canvas, 1980
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Erma Anapol, 30" x 40", Oil on canvas, 1988 Marie Stockl, 24" x 30", Ooil on canvas, 1978 Mrs. Zucherwar, 16" x 20", Oil on canvas, 1989 Click
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Tim Kinduell, Oil on canvas Painted quite rapidly on the rooftop of Tom's New York City Apartment. A painting like this makes a great gift for a party where Tom can work during the party finishing the work the same evening. Ahab, watercolor on paper, 5" x 7" Painted for a man who collects MAD magazines. Tom took the original Mort Drucker panel from the MAD parody of "Moby Dick" and put the collector into it.
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Annie, Oil on canvas, 30" x 40" Painted from life over a summer. Peggy, 20" x 16", Oil on canvas Tom's mother painted from life over the periods of a few days. Helen, Oil on brass Painted on a 1-1/2" brass medallion
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Captain Kirk, 30" x 40", oil on canvas, 1980 Tom in Clown Face, 8" x 10", oil on canvas, 1989 The Who, 48" x 36", oil on canvas, 1979, Painted from images taken during the premier of "The Kids Are Alright." In just a few days Tom painted and presented the work to Clive Davis of A&M. He gave him tickets to the Who concert at Madison Square Gardens. Tom had the painting signed by Pete Townsend on the back. The work was stolen and its whereabouts are unknown.
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United Press International Your face in a masterpiece Pick any painting in the Cincinnati Art Museum and Tom will paint your face in it. Victoria, 11" x 14", charcoal on paper, from five half hour sittings, April 6, 2005 Irene, 8 " x 10", colored pencil paper, from twenty minute sitting, December 25, 1991 Click
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Matt, 8 " x 10", three color charcoal on paper, from photo Paul, 30" x30", oil on canvas, 1980 Lionel Larner, 30" x 24", Oil on canvas, 1978, A famous actor's agent who had himself painted into his favorite painting that hangs at the Frick.
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Young Woman, oil painting on an 8" x 10" gessoed masonite board was painted from the supplied photo. Peter & Wendy, Oval 24" x 30", Oil on canvas, 1978, Tom had to keep Peter in stitches playing comedy albums one after another while he sat for the painting. The painting hung above the mantel and from the street, you could clearly see it. Many times people would wave thinking Peter was home.
Michael McClintock Oil on canvas, 22" x 28", 1984 This artwork was painted from life over a span of several months. Michael was a musician in New York City. Several albums were produced. His band played frequently at the "Mud Club." He was a longtime friend of Tom's. He married the granddaughter of Alexander Calder and settled down off the coast of France near England. He suddenly died in Paris in 1993. Brooke Sheilds, 8" x 10", oil on mylar, painted in reverse color Brooke Sheilds, 8" x 10", oil on canvas, painted without makeup
Jean Vincent, Oil on canvas, 30" x 30", 1976, Painted for 12 French apple pies. Superman, Oil on Mylar, 72" x 120", 1978, Christopher Reeve as Superman an alien orphan sent from his dying planet to Earth. The kite was flown on the day of the premier in New York City. Elizabeth Taylor, Oil on vinyl, 1976, 16" x 20", Student work
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