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Tom & Irene Kissing
Oil pastel on aluminum, 16" x 20", January 18, 2008
The colors were selected for full color effect. Tom works along side the robot while it places the intial color. Then Tom goes over the work carfully adjusting the dots. The painting takes place in a novel way, the painting lays flat and Tom steps back about five feet comparing the work with his reference.

Lady of Cincinnati's Fountain Square
Oil pastel on aluminum, 16" x 20", January 15, 2008
Painted with concern over the transition of light ot dark colors. The purple or second darkest color should be lighter. Next painting will be with real life colors.

Baby Bear, Wax on aluminum sheet, 16" x 20", January 2, 2008
This work continues to improve the resolution and color of the Lego robot, Artisto assisted work. Tom kept the color lighter than black making the black a strong form color. He needs to continue to refine the gray scale steps for the other colors to make the eight colors work as best as they can.

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.
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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

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
One of the earliest works where after the robot had laid down the color Tom reheated the surface and painted strokes into the hot wax. The ears at the bottom left are rabbit ears.

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.