Portraits in the manner of William Adolphe Bouguereau, French, 1825-1905
Landscapes in the manner of Jan Van Der Heyden, Dutch, 1637-1712
Paintings in the manner of
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Composite of the composition. In Tom's dream he meets the alien on top of a canal type boat with Our Lady of Guadalupe appearing on the shore with a nuclear power plant in the background.
Our Lady of Guadalupe is the title given to the Virgin Mary after she appeared to a man named Juan Diego in Mexico in 1531, and is now a major Catholic icon and a national symbol of Mexico. The image of her on Juan Diego's cloak has significant meaning for indigenous and Catholic people, as her image and story are believed to have led to millions of conversions in the years following the apparition.
Space Alien (unfinished)
Oil on canvas, 4’ x 7’, Started in 1981, Property of the artist
The painting started from a dream Tom had about a Alien on the Ohio River. Tom had worked on the Ohio most of his teenage years and has recurrent dreams about the river. Awhile after he had the dream he met a actor who had a head size quite large. All in all he looked like the alien in Tom’s dream and he engaged him in sitting for the huge painting. Several days he would visit and pose for the full length portrait. Max was not that big but that did not matter as he would stand on a stool while Tom would paint on the floor to work on the various parts. Tom decided from his dream that the alien had only three fingers and his genitalia would be to paint two ears together to represent the opening down below.
The painting has the Alien on the roof of Captain Beatty ‘s launch with a power plant in the background. Off to the left is the shore line and there is the Virgin Mary appearing with her foot on a serpent and a glow around her.
This dream was about a alien coming to earth and meeting with humans. The story starts off late in the evening of a cool summers night. Tom during his river days was given the task of repainting the roof of his captains boat. The top of the boat was curving flat from stem to stern. It was on this type of roof that the dream starts. The boat is moored along a empty bank about a thousand feet from a power station. The station was all aglow and in the distance. Tom is on the roof and on the bank is a vestige of the Virgin Mary all aglow in a light that illuminated the otherwise dark surrounds. The Virgin just appeared and nothing else occurred until Tom looked back onto the roof of the captains boat. There standing ten feet from him was a tall alien. He was gray with a leathery skin and was quite naked. He seven feet tall and had a large head but otherwise looked very much like a old man.
He and the alien got to talking and the alien expressed a wish to go ashore and meet with the press at the power station down river. They traveled to the station and as they appeared in the parking look there where some members of the press. The alien wanted to hold a press conference in the power plants cafeteria and they proceeded to the elevator to the upper floor for they were at ground or river level. In that elevator was the alien, Tom and a third man that had a blue plaid shirt on and jeans. His hair was light and he had some light colored sunglasses where you could still see easily through them even in the elevator. The alien was talking about the fact that the other aliens did not want him to talk but he felt he had to because of the many years of their relationship. It was a law that all aliens keep a code of silence with the humans. Somewhat like the Prime Directive of the Federation of Planets in the hit series “Star Trek.”
They arrived on the main level and proceeded out across the parking lot towards the cafeteria. The same plaid shirt wearing young man dropped to his feet and shot the alien several times and made sure that he was dead. The police surrounded the executioner and he shot himself. We all just stood there in silence and the dream ended.
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