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Art Made with a New ProcessLego's MindStorm Invention System.“Machines of Art,” in three YouTube uploads, are three videos of art making machines making art. The first is a small hand size art making machine that uses a windup motor driven four legged walking motion that drags a brush. The second art making machine is a remotely controlled four legged walking machine that paints with an arm holding a self loading brush. The last art making machine uses the Legos MindStorm Invention System to power a rotating eight color oil pastel head. It moves to a position, receives color information from a computer, applies the color and then moves to the next position. The 5000 dots take 18 hours to complete. Tom Lohre has been working since 1987 on automaton art making machines.
Click image to see larger image.Tom & Irene Kissing Lady of Cincinnati's Fountain Square The Art Machine used to make these paintings is shown. The eight colors on the wheel are rotated to the right color and then applied 5000 times.
Click image to see larger image.Baby Bear, Wax on aluminum sheet, 16" x 20", January 2, 2008 The Artist as Santa, 16" x 20", December 19, 2007, Wax aluminum sheet This Lego robot assisted painting has several new inventions. Tom started
painting while the robot laid down the color. He made an outline on the
metal of the final painting and used it to guide his stroke. Tom reduced
the size of the wax stick to 1/4" and kept the number of stroke to
4163. The Santa is the artist. Tom always wanted to paint a Santa in the
manner of the Coke Santa, Haddon H. Sundblom. Helen XV, 16" x 20", October 2007, Wax aluminum sheet Tom was still working on the right combination of eight colors for this face of his daughter. The wax did not have much difference in the dark shades. He still was working with basic colors, black, dark brown, dark green, dark red, medium brown, blue, light brown and white. He still would not alter the application of the color spots, letting the robot make homogeneous patterns of its own.
Click image to see larger image.Helen XIV, 16" x 20", October 2007 The light violet takes the place of yellow in the face palette. If you
close your eyes the violet becomes yellow. The face looks fascinating
because of this juxtaposition. Helen XIII, 16"
x 20", October 2007 Facial coloring combination from light to dark: black, dark red brown, dark blue, green, red, light pink, light violet and white with the violet substituting for light yellow for excitement. Peter Rabbit, 16" x 20", September 2007 The second painting where Tom used a 8 color four color process, black, blue, violet, red, orange, green, yellow, white in that order of gray scale.
Click image to see larger image.George Clooney , 16" x 20", September 2007 Helen XII, 16" x 20", September 2007, Wax on textured aluminum extra heavy foil Tom worked on mixing the right colors for this work using 4 light colors for the face and 4 dark colors for the hair. He found out that the darks were too much alike as well as the face colors. Helen XI, 16" x 20", September 2007, Wax on textured aluminum
extra heavy foil
Click image to see larger image.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.
Click image to see larger image.2004 Robot The 2004 robot painted with a
pigmented wax stick on a canvas heated by a hot plate. It created the
most beautiful surface. The fact that you could create any color wax stick
you want was very important when creating with something this rough. Tom
wanted the 2004 robot to be able to work from an image in the computer
but the learning curve was too steep because of the programing language,
LabVIEW or RoboLAB In the spring of 2004 these paintings were shown at
the Lexington Public Library, Kentucky. Contemporary Painters Downtown Lexington Library
4. Landscape I, 10 x 8, Oil on canvas, 040129.jpg
12. Adams County, 12 x 16, Oil on canvas, 040219.jpg
Bouquet
of Roses, 16 x 20, Oil on canvas, February 23, 2004
Large Format Pastel Printer June 25th, 2003 Used to produce 26" x 40"
pastel printer by placing the black & white plate above the robot.
The IR sensor causes the robot to reverse direction when it moves off
the black plate. Random movements cause the robot to no repeat it's path
thereby filling in areas as it travels back and forth across the black
plate. Abstract Random40" x 26", pastel on 90lb paper,
Helen16" x 20",
Helen16" x 20", Helen30" x 24", pastel on 90lb paper, April 10th, 2003
Tom36" x 26", pastel on 90lb paper, April 15th, 2003 Click image to see larger image.Mom & Dad with Susan, 36" x 24", pastel on 90lb paper, May 6th, 2003
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