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Every portrait is
special to you, the one painted and the artist. Tom will make the portrait
creation desirable to all three. Anything is possible: charcoal, watercolor
and oil portraits can be done quickly if necessary.
Tom likes to
take as much time as he can when creating art.
Tom likes to
visit with the subject once a week, staying about one hour. During that
time he will make sketches, take photos and have the subject sit for a
few minutes. Children love the process and look forward to his visits.
It is a sad day when he no longer visits. A drawing is done in pencil
on the canvas using the composition ideas of the client, once approved
the painting begins. Painting is wet on wet, each section is completed
while the paint is wet. When the paint starts to congeal painting that
section stops. When Tom starts a face he brings the canvas to the sitter
for a live sitting. After working in the studio almost completing the
face he will return for another live sitting. Tom borrows the sitter’s
clothes and dresses up a wire mannequin for the clothes and works from
life. The background is painted completing the portrait
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Clifton Family, 24"
x 20", oil on canvas, December 2009
Started in April 2008 after a hiatus of two years waiting for the baby to
grow up. Sketches were agreed on and work commenced with Tom painting in
the side yard of the neighbors home for the summer. Work progressed from
right to left. The dogs were painted first then the master and his wife.
Painting has recommenced at the Cincinnati Sports Club where Tom had a show
of paintings in the lobby in March and April 09 and took advantage of a
invitation to paint there to paint the children. He has been spent a week
on each figure. Tom has changed his medium, the oil he paints with during
this painting. Since it was started in April of 2008, Tom has changed from
1/2 Demar varnish 1/2 stand oil to 4/5 stand oil 1/5 poppy oil. Stand oil
is thickened linseed oil that does not yellow as much. Both mediums had
oil of clove added to retard drying. Toms new medium has a longer drying
time and does not thickened as much before setting. Tom manner is to paint
with this medium tinting the medium to create the color. Most colors created
using the white of the canvas as the white. Only in the darkest parts of
the painting does the saturation of oil colors prevent the white of the
canvas from showing through. Tom does this because of his fascination with
the surface of painting. This manner allows the most exciting surface. The
final painting on the home done in the summer of 09 and the new baby added
in December. This is the next level of Tom's work with little people. Three
years prior he started with a series of small works each with an individual
of about 6 inches high. In this work, the 6-inch figures are actual people.
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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,
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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.
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Louise Kats, New York
City, 48" x 48", 1981
Dick Foster, 16"
x 20", oil on canvas, 1989
Mr. McIntosh, 30"
x 40", oil on canvas, 1980
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Erma Anapol, 30"
x 40", Oil on canvas, 1988
Marie Stockl, 24"
x 30", Ooil on canvas, 1978
Mrs. Zucherwar, 16"
x 20", Oil on canvas, 1989
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Tim
Kinduell, Oil on canvas
Painted quite rapidly on the rooftop of Tom's New York City Apartment.
A painting like this makes a great gift for a party where Tom can work
during the party finishing the work the same evening.
Ahab,
watercolor on paper, 5" x 7"
Painted for a man who collects MAD magazines. Tom took the original Mort
Drucker panel from the MAD parody of "Moby Dick" and put the
collector into it.
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Annie,
Oil on canvas, 30" x 40"
Painted from life over a summer.
Peggy,
20" x 16", Oil on canvas
Tom's mother painted from life over the periods of a few days.
Helen,
Oil on brass
Painted on a 1-1/2" brass medallion
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Captain Kirk, 30"
x 40", oil on canvas, 1980
Tom in Clown Face,
8" x 10", oil on canvas, 1989
The Who, 48"
x 36", oil on canvas, 1979, Painted from images taken during the
premier of "The Kids Are Alright." In just a few days Tom painted
and presented the work to Clive Davis of A&M. He gave him tickets
to the Who concert at Madison Square Gardens. Tom had the painting signed
by Pete Townsend on the back. The work was stolen and its whereabouts
are unknown.
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United Press International Your
face in a masterpiece Pick
any painting in the Cincinnati Art Museum and Tom will paint your face
in it.
Victoria, 11" x 14",
charcoal on paper, from five half hour sittings, April 6, 2005
Irene,
8 " x 10", colored pencil paper, from twenty minute sitting,
December 25, 1991
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Matt,
8 " x 10", three color charcoal on paper, from photo
Paul, 30" x30",
oil on canvas, 1980
Lionel Larner, 30"
x 24", Oil on canvas, 1978, A famous actor's agent who had himself
painted into his favorite painting that hangs at the Frick.
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Young Woman,
oil painting on an 8" x 10" gessoed masonite board was painted
from the supplied photo.
Peter & Wendy, Oval
24" x 30", Oil on canvas, 1978, Tom had to keep Peter in stitches
playing comedy albums one after another while he sat for the painting. The
painting hung above the mantel and from the street, you could clearly see
it. Many times people would wave thinking Peter was home.
Michael
McClintock Oil
on canvas, 22" x 28", 1984
This artwork was painted from
life over a span of several months. Michael was a musician in New York
City. Several albums were produced. His band played frequently at the
"Mud Club." He
was a longtime friend of Tom's. He
married the granddaughter of Alexander Calder and settled down off the
coast of France near England. He suddenly died in Paris in 1993.
Brooke Sheilds, 8" x 10",
oil on mylar, painted in reverse color
Brooke Sheilds, 8" x 10",
oil on canvas, painted without makeup
Jean Vincent, Oil on canvas, 30"
x 30", 1976, Painted for 12 French apple pies.
Superman, Oil on Mylar,
72" x 120", 1978, Christopher Reeve as Superman an alien orphan
sent from his dying planet to Earth. The kite was flown on the day of
the premier in New York City.
Elizabeth Taylor,
Oil on vinyl, 1976, 16" x 20", Student work
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