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The big problem with these paintings is to see it properly, you have to display
it where it can be charged and then moved into a dark area. Never really figured
this out. Maybe a place where a door swung in one way charged it and then when
swung the other way displayed it in a dark room.
Twilight Tree Line, 24" x 18", Glow,
Oil
pastel on metal, April 10. 2016, dark view
Twilight Tree Line, 24" x 18", Glow,
Oil
pastel on metal, April 10. 2016, twilight view
Best to view with a clicker. Hang the work in low light plugging in the light
with the clicker module. View by clicking to turn off light.
These images do not show the real view of the painting. Cameras receive and
process light differently than eyes. The twilight view is the best approximation
of what it is like to view the painting in its optimal.
Tom started working with glow in the dark colors while developing his Lego painting
machine in 2003. In 2015 he produced two paintings with the sky and water being
glow and the rest normal colors. All the paintings are oil pastels melted on
hot metal, a technique he started with his painting machine. One of the paintings,
a view of Fountain Square, hangs in the Cincinnati City Hall, part of an art
for sale/display program curated by Jan Brown Cheeco.
This painting moves the process a step further using only glow in the dark
colors in ernst as a standalone medium. The work is developed on three levels:
daylight, dark and half-light or twilight version (the way the work is supposed
to be viewed.) Not being able to work with the color in the manner it is to
be viewed is the stumbling block. It is like working in an alternate universe.
The glow colors have a comforting manner about them for when you close your
eyes the colors you see are glow in the dark. The preliminary workup is done
in the computer with two layers, the layer as the painting looks in daylight
and the way the painting looks in the dark. Half of the colors are a milky yellow
white and cannot be distinguished one from another. The other half are tinted
in an approximation of the glow color.
The next glowing painting will be a sea scape with Moby Dick, whaleship and
whaleboat. Tom hopes to advance his study focusing on the twilight version of
the work carefully taking advantage of the brightest glowing colors making them
the bright reflection on forms and the lesser glowing colors the shadow colors.
Tom will rough out the scene in 3D using Poser, then moving it to paint after
the composition, reflection and colors are set.
Tom made a painting machine out of Lego's Mindstorm Invention System in 2003.
To make a machine that paints you must simplify the application process. The
stroke the machine used is the same as this work, melting wax on a hot surface.
These same simplifications also stimulate the viewer as a new aggressive impressionism.
His first study technique was painting copies in museums, learning principals
of art that could not be taught. His second study technique was creating machines
that copied the process of painting. He discovered more principals of art that
otherwise could not have learned.
His purpose in these paintings is to reveal his spirit while illustrating life.
He seeks a visual vibration that inspires and stimulates the viewer to see beauty,
truth and order, using unconventional methods. He seeks to discover underlining
principals not revealed in normal study. This work differs from others because
it goes a step further, applying traditional study techniques using new methods.
Fountain Square LXXI, Glow,
Oil
pastel on metal, 12" x 16", Tuesday, Janaury 20, 2015
Tom started working with glow in the dark colors while developing his Lego painting
machine in 2003. The addition of new colors stymied Tom till 2015 when he was
willing to advance the process dovetailing it with his March 2015 Show.
There are two aspects of glow in the dark. Some of the colors can be seen and
other colors are colored with an approximation of the glow color. For now, Tom
will be using the glow colors for skies and reflection of the sky on the water.
Tom developed an applicator to facilitate thicker glow color for the daylight
version to show an opaque surface.
Fountain Square LXX, Glow,
Oil
pastel, Blob,
12" x 16", Wednesday, January 14, 2015
Learning to use glow in the dark colors is like learning to see light with
an extra component. Like an insect able to see ultraviolet. What do they see?
How can the glow in the dark component become part of the colors?
Egyptian Woman, Glow,
Blob Portrait,
16" x 20", March 7, 2011 Glow in the dark colors melted on hot metal
Tom started melting oil pastels on hot metal while developing his Lego painting
machine in 2003. This painting moves the process a step further using glow in
the dark colors. The work is developed on three levels: daylight, dark and half-light
or twilight version (the way the work is supposed to be viewed.) Not being able
to work with the color in the manner it is to be viewed is the stumbling block.
It is like working in an alternate universe. The glow colors have a comforting
manner about them for when you close your eyes the colors you see are glow in
the dark. Tom picked Arab Spring as the jump off point for this painting since
it was in the news and Tom believes it’s best to anchor your art in current
events.
