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More Portrait Paintings in the Traditional Manner

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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Mr. Woolums, 11" x 14", oil on board, from photo

Ted Strickland, Ohio Governor, 12" x 16", oil on board, October 27, 2009

Painted in a radically different impressionist manner using carefully crafted colors. The colors are applied in a watercolor manner using tinted Dammar varnish. Not only does it smell great it looks beautiful with a very high gloss finish. The manner, derived from Tom’s painting Lego robot, works with six colors so to simulate 4-color you have to carefully select them. You have see the original to fully appreciate it. Pick up in person.

Price Front Yard
February 7 1999, Oil on canvas 10" x 8"
Painted from the garage of the Price Home. Situated off a single lane road, the Price home overlooks a pastoral view of the Carolina Piedmont. Rolling hay fields are line with pine and scrub oak. A lone tall old tree rises up from the landscape and dares to keep alive for a hundred years. In the foreground, Rex the neighborhood dog who adopted the prices watches over the scene.

 

Cincinnati Museum Center, 8" x 10", oil on canvas, October 14th, 2005,The  center is the old Union Train Terminal. Tom worked in the famous rotunda in front of one of the machines that turns a penny into a souvenir. The little girl is Tom's daughter.

Lemony Snicket, 12" x 16", oil on board, spring 2008. Painted from a photograph. David Handler, aka Lemony Snicket, made an appearance at the public library in Cincinnati and Tom's daughter and he went down to get his signature and listen to his lecture. He patiently signed and stamped persons book. David wrote thirteen books in the series of unfortunate events.

Nuclear War, Arnold Schwarzenegger from Predator, 20" x 16", oil on canvas, 2006

Thomas Lohre Senior, Illustrator digital file, 1999

Sailor, 16" x 20", oil on canvas, 1987, Painted from a photograph for a bartender at the Rose and Crown, Nantucket.

Diana Ross, Oil on vinyl, 16" x 20", June 1976, Student work