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2170926 Blacks have been stomped for 200 years in the US. Fighting our wars and coming home to disgusting threats by thier own citizens, At least we can see the problem. My brother says, "Why do they complain so much?" The answer is because there is still work to do. To step a few steps in their shoes. Next we will work to give the mentally ill the health care they deserve. No body wants to be gay, black or mentally ill. We can afford it.

April 25, 2017

Article by Eric Forsyth, Captain of the Fiona

http://greenoceanrace.com/just-where-are-we-heading/

The last sentence makes me want to explore geothermal, hydroelectricity, tidal generation and biomass cultivation. Global warming will be the catalyst.
Another problem is overpopulation. Earth run by robots with humans as paid performance artists. Let's hope super intelligence solves the problem.

April, 21, 2017

Ingres Face Reading
Major Feature?
Upper Lip, meaning heathy vigorous life
Thin Lips, meaning thigh lipped, saying little
Short chin space, meaning wildly sexual
Lower eye lids, meaning everything humanity
Sharpened Brows, meaning detailed to a slight fault
Almost Small Nose, meaning worked diligently
Almost round nostrils, meaning generosity
Ears: Small, meaning incredible skills at being oneself complete as humanity without compare since you were. Good for Queens.

April 20, 2017

I'm looking for the vi you can apply a formula to an image. Working the problem is the focus.
Would have looked at
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Computational_geometry
but no formula
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Color_quantization
has at least a formula
The bigger picture
Decide the method, manipulate the image, and apply the color.
Using a sweeping method of application would shorten the paint cycle and look more like a stroke.
Golden Triangle
$1.50 music * As courtesy to the musicians, silence is observed during entertainment.
Vine and McMillian
I had six beers in my pockets when I entered and then things changed for life.
Chuck Lohre In 1970 I would walk from our home in Park Hills up Vine St. to the Golden Triangle at midnight. I guess I walked home, I don't remember.

https://books.google.com/books?id=KAsDAAAAMBAJ&pg=PA36&lpg=PA36&dq=cincinnati+Vine+and+McMillan+golden+triangle&source=bl&ots=_nptpdcLIZ&sig=GcnELvBJ_L0StsElBwyU6XR__7g&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwiOv_KclbLTAhVH5iYKHRQrDysQ6AEILjAB#v=onepage&q=cincinnati%20Vine%20and%20McMillan%20golden%20triangle&f=false

April 7, 2017

Knowledge of history rewards everyone. My diligent study of history reveals that focus on my own history can be rewarded by continued study.
To change via the study of history is difficult.
To change via the study of oneself is possible.
All change is 2/3’s emotion.
Emotion could be exercising.

June 04, 2014

Work continues on getting the lease for a 4’ x 6’ closet gallery on Ludlow Avenue between the Esquire Theater and Sitwell’s Coffee House.

Instead of landscapes with little figures on the manner of the greats Tom wants to use the figure prominently.
Not unlike Kevin Larmee www.larmee.org
Or Bill Petrie http://madwillow.com/Stars%20For%20His%20Crown.htm
It is taking a big chance but better to stick your neck out to get it cut off than to forever regret you did not.

May 25, 2014

Playing the Stones, Parachute Woman and Stray Cat Blues over and over for six months completely through my skiing accident and knee replacement is art analyzed without life, possessing me to representing life.

Tom is interviewed on the street in New York City on March 23, 2010, after the passing of the Reconciliation Bill in the house on Health Care Reform. The question was, "Do you think the bill will increase the deficit?"

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Queensboro Bridge, 16" x 12", under revision

Clifton Home, oil on board, 7" x 5"

Ocean, 20" x 16", oil on canvas

Ted Strickland, Ohio Governor, 12" x 16", oil on board, October 27, 2009

Brian Kelly, UC Football coach, 12" x 16", oil on canvas, October 29, 2009, with Kelly Signature on front of painting

Tiger Woods Wins the Devou Open, 20" x 16", oil on canvas, September 19, 2009

Rob Portman, Oil on board, 12" x 16", April 24, 2008
Commercial Real Estate Developers Power Breakfast
Thursday, April 24, 2008 at the Duke Energy Center Grand Ballroom, Rob Portman was the key note speaker at the Cincinnati Business Courier's seventh annual Commercial Real Estate Developers Power Breakfast. Rob Portman is one of Cincinnati's favorite political sons who is on Sen. John McCain's short list of vice presidential running mate candidates. Portman talked about our three-state region's most powerful connection, trade as well as took questions about today's political climate and issues and his future. Also in attendance, Ky. Sec. of State Trey Grayson who provided a south-of-the-Ohio River view.

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

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.

Joan, oil on canvas, 10" x 10"

Bucky, 24" x 30", oil on canvas, December 30, 2008

Abstract Landscape V, 16" x 12", oil on board, December 2009

Jack Lohre, 30" x 40", oil on canvas, November 25, 2008
Ludlow Panthers win the Northern Kentucky Youth Football Super Bowl

Fountain IV, 12" x 16", oil on board, November 23, 2008

Sitwell Woman IV, 12" x 16", oil on board, November 19, 2008

Grant Park, Chicago; 4' x 3', latex on canvas, November 4, 2008

Evanswood Place, Clifton, Cincinnnati Ohio; 16" x 12", oil on board, October 24, 2008

Get Your Own Protest Sign http://tomlohre.com/protest.htm

Political Poster for Rabbit Hash Kentucky Mayoral Race 2008

Lemony Snicket, 12" x 16", oil on board, spring 2008. Painted from a photograph. David Handler, aka Lemony Snicket, made an appearance at the public library in Cincinnati and Tom's daughter and he went down to get his signature and listen to his lecture. He patiently signed and stamped persons book. David wrote thirteen books in the series of unfortunate events.

Grill Man, 16" x 12", oil on board, September 2008. This painting follows in the great tradition of men with their kills. Instead of an Indian standing over his Buffalo we have Bob standing over his grill.

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Clifton Meadows, 3' x 4', latex on canvas, June 2008

Painted for the summer of 2008. Tom has always wanted to paint a work for each summer. Finally he has pulled it off. The 3' x 4' work is effortlessly done using gloss acrylic paint on sign painters canvas. The two divers are the best of the season.

Looking to have the 8" x 10" oil on canvas of the Clifton Cow Jumping Over the Moon in Mount Storm Park outputted on vinyl and applied to one of two possible walls flanking the gravel pit between Spiral Light and Dan's Clifton Barbers.

Dan cuts a little boys hair with Tom Lohre's paintings in the background. Over 25 paintings hang on the walls and are for sale. Join Tom at Dan's Clifton Barbers every 3rd Wednesday from 5 to 7 p.m., light refreshments, children welcomed, 337 Ludlow Ave, Cincinnati OH 45220, near the Esquire Theater, 513-281-3163. Haircuts available during reception.

Bahamian Home, 20" x 16", watercolor on paper, 1995

The Sun by Helen, 16" x 12", acrylic on canvas

Master Drew, 24" x 30", oil on canvas, October 31st, 2007The final of five portraits started in 2000 for a grandmother. I takes about a year and a half to complete such a work. Several months were used to collect information. The face was painted in November 2006, The landscape on the right in April, the trellis and porch on the left in June. In October the hands, suit, foreground and veranda on the lower right were painted.http://tomlohre.com/drew.htm

Entrance to 3-Mile Harbor, 16" x 12, Oil on board, August 2007, The latest in a long line of paintings done while traveling. Tom's paint box has space for four wet 16" x 12" gessoed boards. Some are panted in one day others with figures take a week with Tom working on the figure during the evening and going on location to paint the landscape. http://tomlohre.com/river&.htm

Antonio del Ceraiolo, Italy, 1520, CAM 1854.138, 30" x 40", Madonna & Child with St. John the Baptist with the faces of the patrons wife and sons painted in.

090813 It’s always better to have a nervous breakdown in a clean house than a dirty one.

090803 Twitter will replace news. The major players in a news story will twitter each other and we will be blocked from contributing but will be able to see what they say.

090714 I am running for office. It is not an elected position, it is the position of being your portrait painter. You do much the same as running for office, going to every public event possible always looking for people you know and people your recognize.

080407 Yes, I have dragged myself out of town to the Dilly Deli. Meeting a young enthusiastic artist to see her portfolio. She had quite a portfolio. It was as if she and me had been dragged together through life. She so young and boisterous, I so reserved and methodical we met. Our enjoyment the same we became fast friends. Friends so together, in the same boat, our destination the same. So amazed and convinced I was drawn into the hell of heaven I jumped ship. I would rather swim ashore, alone to my family than spend eternity with such a wench of a God.

0802 The next world war will be one of enviroment. The countries who are abusing the planet will be attacked by the consevationists. Al Gore will become a prophet.

071008 I have rekindled the manner of the first robot drawings. Strong color combined with strong lighting makes a pleasant graphic work.

070917 The robot is finishing a piece every week. It takes a day or two to set it up and then the rest of the week to complete it. I am trying to use the basic colors of a distill image to achieve the best results from the limited 8 colors of the robot, red, yellow, black, white, violet, turquoise, blue and green. I started working on Drew’s portrait. I painted five en plein air works so far in September. My transparent impressionist technique is different and charming.

070711
The robot is finally working on it debut masterpiece. All the kinks have been worked out and now it runs though the ten hours it takes to produce a 16” x 20” painting in sections of time in the studio. Getting preliminary approval for a City of Cincinnati Individual Art Grant has strengthened my drive to surmount all obstacles.

070424 Finally I am back painting Drew's portrait. I have been going out and working on the background while bringing along Drew's seersucker suit on the mannequin I have. Eventually I will complete the background and go on to the suit. The weather has been perfect. I have been studying the canal that used to go along the west and north side of Clifton. I'll be painting views of the city with the canal back in soon. The robot has made leaps and bounds and soon will be completing a 16” x 20” painting with 1500 dots of color taking 10 hours. The machine is a lot like a man working at a lathe. I was talking to a downtown resident the other day and he was going on about how the bums come right up to you and that your car is not safe and I got to thinking that this sounds just like New York City where I lived for twenty years. Even if you lived on the upper west side you always have to lock your car, say no to the beggars and keep within arms distance from your children. I do not think you should expect anything different in downtown Cincinnati.It’s hard to believe that somebody is really different than another. If one person is a star there may be another person you know who is like them but not a star. I always enjoy my friends who act like stars but do not have the credentials. One persons work is just as great as another’s if you enjoy it no matter who they are or how famous they are. If you see art and like it then great. The art caught by the famous curators and gallery dealers is no better than the art you catch. The artist and curators job is to invite you.

070312 There will come a time when Al Gore will be considered a Prophet. Think back to the time of Christ, the world was going through big changes. In many ways it was scientific revolution. Well in the future, when the planet has undergone major changes because of man a new rule will be declared. Not just treat your fellow man as you would yourself but leave the planet better than you found it. At that time the calendar will be rolled back to one and a new era will declared.

Clifton Chronicle, Cincinnati, Tom Lohre, editor

070305

Where is the sacrifice? When 1 AD turned around they stopped sacrifice in the temple. THe prophecy had been fulfilled. THe temple was destroyed and now the Jews meet in the meeting palace, a synagogue.

Art Museums are the death. The few artist they represent are only the surface of the great art experiences that are out there. Great is everywhere. Even the most incapable of persons can create a true masterpiece. Even your friends can embulate the greatest people. Why desire know a star when one is right next to you?

Someday people will fly around in light weight dragonfly like rubber muscle like backpacks. Everyone will lose weight because you can't fly when you're heavy.

I wanted a trailable sailboat to take to Lake Erie and East Hampton but then a houseboat studio on the Ohio River but it ended up being a pavillion type tent to paint in.

Lyrics from a song Marlene Dietrich sang in "The Blue Angel": If it isn't pain, Then it isn't Love, If it doesn't drive you insane, It can't be love, If it's not a flame, Burning night & day, Then it's nothing more than a game, I'm not that way, My heart never was taken, My heart never was taken.