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The art here was made with a new process using Lego's MindStorm Invention System. Manner Copyrighted 2007 Tom & Irene Kissing Lady of Cincinnati's Fountain Square 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. He still had too much similarity between the darks. 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 homogenous patterns of its own. Helen XIV, 16" x 20", October 2007 Helen XIII, 16"
x 20", October 2007 Peter Rabbit, 16" x 20", September 2007 George Clooney , 16" x 20", September 2007Chad Johnson, 16" x 20", September 2007,
Wax on aluminum sheet 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 Irene, 16" x 20", August 2007 On left, the finished portrait of his wife. In the middle, a smaller image to help realize the portrait. On the right, the same portrait with the glow in the dark pigments activated. In the spring of 2004 these paintings were shown at
the Lexington Public Library, Kentucky.
Past work from 2003 robot Abstract Random40" x 26", pastel on 90lb paper, April 1th, 2003Helen30" x 24", pastel on 90lb paper, April 10th, 2003Tom36" x 26", pastel on 90lb paper, April 15th, 2003Mom & Dad with Susan36" x 24", pastel on 90lb paper, May 6th, 2003Helen 16" x 20",
Helen 16" x 20",
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