Free
Signed Original Art
Free Painted Labels on Bottles
Tom started painting
the labels of bottles just before he moved out of New York City. He was
studying watercolor and was looking for a way to practice and provide a
finished art piece that was simple. His initial inspiration was an example
of sailor’s art showing a rather provocative nude woman in a pornographic
pose. His initial series of labels were all pornographic. Later he started
painting celebrities of Greenwich Village for a Village Guide Book. Later
Tom went on to produced many portraits on small Perrier Bottles for the
staff illustrations for the community publication he is editor of.
Greenwich Village
A Primo Guide To Shopping Eating and
Making
Merry In True Bohemia by Saint Martins Press, Released May 5th
1995, 27 paintings by the artist adorn the pages, Tom’s good friends
and neighbors wrote the book. Below are some of the 29 illustrations.
Free Paintings Done by a Robot
2004 Robot
For 18 years, Tom
worked on making a painting machine that fed an images' information to
a robot. The big problem was discovering affordable software and hardware.
Lego supplied this in 2003. One of the big problems was developing an
application method that was elegant and beautiful, achieved by mixing
special colors using heated oil pastels and pouring the hot wax into a
brass sleeve creating a new crayon. The color, applied to the canvas by
heating it with an oven stone. Tom would carry one hot stone up from the
kitchen to the third floor studio after another until done. These first
works are very fragile and simple. The sweeping motion and coverage stepping
was preprogrammed into a Lego RCX brick and the whole machine was run
my pressing buttons.
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
as it is called
when using Lego sensors and motors. Click
to see all the painting machines.
Click
to see all the art made with machines.
4. Landscape I, 10” x 8”, Oil on canvas, 040129.jpg
5. Landscape IV, 10” x 8”, Oil on canvas, 040125.jpg
6. Adams County Sunset, 10” x 8”, Oil on canvas, 040205.jpg
7. Landscape III, 10” x 8”, Oil on canvas, 040201.jpg
Free
Drawings
If you enjoy traveling vicariously
through another's sketch book then these drawings are for you. Nantucket,
New York City, East Hampton, Kentucky Derby and nude sketch class are
covered. The poignant drawings have a timeless manner in their quick decisive
appeal.
These drawings were done in 1988
while Tom was in Nantucket and New York City. Tom spent his summer in
Nantucket painting and did not return to his apartment in New York City
until late October. Tom had a habit of carrying his sketch book around
and sketching from his third year of college. The sketching has tapered
off now and his style has changed to very quick works without eraser filling
a sketch book every two years where he used to fill two or three a year
in 1988. He also takes out the sketches from time to time to keep them
from getting smudged or damaged.
Some of the highlights of the
series include excellent drawings of the "Life Cafe" in New
York City's East Village, Caberet Singer John Wallowitch, 80's New York
City videotographer Nelson Sullivan, Murray's Cheese Shop in New York
City's Greenwich Village, The Fountain and a old fireplace in Nantucket
and Three Mile Harbor on Long Island. Also included is a funny series
of drawings of a beautiful woman and a dirty old man in Nantucket.
Suzanne Doing Her Laundry
pencil on paper, 11" x 14", 1988
Sketched from life.
Sandy with Pretty Woman, Sheridan
Square, Greenwich Village, New York City Pick
up Pending
pencil on paper, 11" x 14", 1988
Sketched from life. Sandy is a real character in the Village obsessed
with meeting
young women. He always wears a wig and keeps up a running banter that
is hard not to find amusing.
Yvonne
pencil on paper, 14" x 11", 1988
Sketched from life.
Halloween Party VII
pencil on paper, 11" x 14", 1988
Sketched from life during a party in Nantucket
Halloween Party V
pencil on paper, 11" x 14", 1988
Sketched from life during a party in Nantucket.
Halloween Party VI
pencil on paper, 11" x 14", 1988
Sketched from life during a party in Nantucket.
Halloween Party VIII
pencil on paper, 11" x 14", 1988
Sketched from life during a party in Nantucket
Halloween Party III
pencil on paper, 11" x 14", 1988
Sketched from life during a party in Nantucket.
Baby Sleeping
pencil on paper, 11" x 14", 1988
Sketched from life of Tom's friend, Ronda Granger's son David.
New York City Taxi Driver
pencil on paper, 14" x 11", 1988
Sketched from life.
Caffe Reggio Pick
up Pending
pencil on paper, 14" x 11", 1988
Sketched from life.
Caffe Reggio http://www.cafereggio.com
119 MacDougal St, New York, 10012 - (212) 475-9557
Suzie in the Bathroom Pick
up Pending
pencil on paper, 11" x 14", 1988
Sketched from life.
Suzanne Culling Scallops in Her
Car
pencil on paper, 11" x 14", 1988
Come fall the scallop season starts and the shacks are busy with temporary
help
cutting the scallop from the shell.
Nude II
pencil on paper, 11" x 14", 1988
Done from life.
Nude
pencil on paper, 11" x 14", 1988
Done from life while sharing a model with some of his teachers from college.
Mt. Adams II
The above 5, 16" x 20", oil on paper, artwork was done by John
Rouse while visitng Cincinnati. John is an out door artist, retired, who
works everyday in the field. We have been pen pals since 2003.
The Story http://tomlohre.com/rouse.htm
Tom met John in Chicago. He was breaking down his easel. You could see
he was an accomplished outdoor painter. The patina on his equipment was
a soft neutral gray, a combination of all the colors.
They exchanged numbers and in the following year Tom visited John in
his hometown of Portsmouth, England. Even though it was in January we
painted outdoors every day. I completed four canvases to his eight.
The fascinating thing about John is his incredible focus on creating
art in the vein of the old masters. He is constantly referring to quotes
from the old masters starting with the impressionists and going back to
the renaissance painters.
John's manner is closely aligned with the impressionists. He typically
goes out in the field and paints a canvas in quick strokes never pondering
on the subject. Once in the studio he sometimes wipes out the canvas since
it failed to pass muster. John also paints self portraits and works from
a model in the same quick "all at once" manner.
Tom posted at auction his paintings from his last visit to Cincinnati.
I had a reception at my home in Clifton for John on Thursday April 29th,
2004 from 4:30 to 7:30PM to show his work.
Free Yard Signs
28" x 22", waterproof,
gloss latex on poster board, painted on one side, sandwiched with a same
size backing board for placing over wire frame for sticking in yard. Originally
painted for the 2009 election.
See all the protest signs: http://tomlohre.com/protest.htm
Free SummerFair
Poster
Four color, 16"
x 27", printed on heavy paper
Created for the
annual SummerFair Poster Contest. It did not win but you can have it for
free!
Free Hand Printed
Ball Caps
adjustable, black
hat,
Done as a novel way to hand print
images. Tom learned to silk screen in high school, producing dance and
theatre posters. In college he worked for a local screen printing company,
Kinduell Screen Printing, and was given artistic privileges to use their
equipment to print limited edition prints.
These caps were made my separating
the front image and outputting the three colors to be printed onto clear
acetate from a laser printer. The plates were used to print on the blank
hat fronts and later they were assembled at the hat factory.
Click on image to see larger view
of cap front
South Street
Seaport's web page
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Landing the painting
French Still Life,
15" x 20", Oil on canvas, 1979
Standard
Simulated Gold Leaf Neapolitan Style Frame Available for Your Selection
8X10, $15
12X16, $20
16x20 $30
20x24 $40
Handmade
Museum Style Plaque $60
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