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Cincinnati Roebling Suspension Bridge with Reclining Woman I, 20" x 36", Melted Crayola crayons on paper, January 1, 2023
Cincinnati Roebling Suspension Bridge with Reclining Woman II, 20" x 36", Melted Crayola crayons on paper, January 15, 2023
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Cincinnati Roebling Suspension Bridge III, 20" x 36", Melted Crayola crayons on paper, February 1, 2023
Cincinnati Roebling Suspension Bridge IV, 20" x 36", Melted Crayola crayons on paper, February 1, 2023
This next painting is proving to be a little more difficult. The focus areas need to be painting with deft and skill. The manner allows only limited overpainting. Combine that with the simple nine color palette makes it a challenge. Onward to another suspension bridge painting. This one with both stadiums lit up flanking the Freedom Center, making the starry night the crown and the reflecting water the dress. After like forever, I wrestled this painting to the ground. It's done enough to have a good look. Will be contemplating adjustments over the next several days. Bound to attempt another. The nine color palette will have to go. Painting with a restrictive palette should be because those are the colors of that time of day or night not because it's some made up system of values touching base with the spectrum. Suspension IV, 36" x 20", Crayola crayons melted on paper
Finally finished the new technique. Instead of melting Cray-pas oil pastels Tom switched over to Crayon brand crayons to get a more transparent color. In the light colors you still needed a little opaque white to make them usable. Still mixing up the special colors using a hot plate and a small dish. Instead of sucking the hot wax into a brass tube, you pour it into a mini silicone ice cube tray with the partitions cut out to make a trough. Crayon wax will not let you extrude them out of a brass tube. They get very stiff and the wax locks the tubes. As long as the work is large, the special colored crayons work perfectly, melting them on paper with a heat gun. The paper absorbs the wax and leaves the color looking like a brush stroke. A little mixing can be done and over painting is difficult but not impossible. It’s better to apply the right color in the right spot the first time.
Painting with wax instead of oil might be a stretch. Tom has always been fascinated with wax, even burning himself when he was a kid. He started melting wax when he created a painting machine. The painting machine needed a great stroke and he came up with melting especially mixed oil pastels on a hot surface. The machine produced 10 paintings, did not sell one and cut its ear off. Tom has gone on to use the technique because it is great in a hotel room, the smell is nothing as bad as oil paint. It dries immediately and you can carry everything you need in a small box. The normal person would think it’s oil. Starting on a new series of such work, he worked at revamping the formula to make the colors transparent. Crayola Crayons are transparent and with a little help with opaque Cray-pas white in the light colors, it is superior to Cray-pas oil pastels or any oil pastel. Oil pastels are too opaque. To get that fantastic surface you need transparency. Now to discover the new subject. Tom always advises students to paint Cincinnati’s Suspension bridge and Fountain Square. They always sell and you can learn at the same time. This time he’s taking his own advice, producing new work for the window box gallery on Ludlow Avenue part of Clifton Market across from the Esquire Theater. He’s throwing in the Esquire Theater as another iconic Cincinnati image you can paint over and over except this time they all will have a reclining woman to spice things up.
Novel melted crayon technique using a hot melt glue gun. Tom's sister creates art by making half inch squares of color around the border of a sheet of paper with crayons. She gets around a few time times or fills in twenty percent of the white space from one side and leaves the rest blank. Tom suggested using a hot melt glue gun with a half inch platform inserted into the tip of a glue gun using it to heat the paper below making a richer color.
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