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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Introduction to an outer space reclining female. An old composition renewed into the modern age only for the reason Tom had an old painting of Saturn started in 1980 when he was at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory as a member of the press with credentials from the Cincinnati Post. The 5’ x 4’ Saturn painting got half done, because it was too large and too complicated and then sat in storage till Tom started finishing old works because he did not want them to be left unfinished. After a good long thought about what to do with it he hit upon the idea of placing a woman astronaut in a spacecraft looking out the window at Saturn. Later his daughter, the model, suggested not to have the spacecraft so he made the painting an “Alien Abduction.” How else can you explain a woman floating in space? All in all this is an effort to move the ball down the road using what skills he has, the good sense to understand art history and where this painting fits in. In the end, his job is to produce a good oil painting in the manner of the ancients with a modern twist. You might wonder why the bulk of the canvas is white. Tom follows the method of Ruben and Bouguereau. Both painted directly on white canvas attempting to create the transparent colored surface in as little time as possible. Painting over an area was only done when the initial attempt did not reach acceptance. This goes against the suggestion that the masters painted in layers of washes. Tom rejects that technique. He studied under the celebrity portrait painter Ralph Wolf Cowan and in his studio they got paintings out the door in as little time as possible recreating the “a la prima” technique of old.
Saturn Finished
Oil on canvas, 4’ x 7’, Started in 1981, Finished October 15, 2025
Funny getting back to painting Saturn. It'd been 45 years since I started it in Elmer Prices home in Pasadena who befriended me, allowing me to live with him while I went to the Jet Propulsion Laboratory everyday to study and paint in the evening during August 1981.
Tom's journey into space begun with the explosion of Mount Saint Helens. He traveled to the mountain to paint the eruption and arrived three days before. Afterwards he went to the Cape Kennedy to paint the first space shuttle launch. It was at the Cincinnati Observatory that he learned of the upcoming Voyager II's encounter with Saturn. He traveled to the Jet Propulsion Laboratory and spend the whole time working on this large painting. Unfinished, he hopes to complete it with the new data arriving in from the Cassini spacecraft now at Saturn since July 1, 2004.
Two Recogmended Books
Coevolution: The True Story Of A Man Taken by Alec Newald
It was fun to think the aliens have a spiritual side but the more I delve into it the more I find they are as cutthroat as we are.
This is an online version: It’s a great reader and can speak to you.
https://archive.org/details/coevolutionthetr00007alec/page/n5/ jmode/2up
In the book Alec alludes to having an out of body experience as a child. Later
while being with the aliens I thought I read a passage that may have connected
out of body experiences to advanced alien ways of communicating and or travel.
Also there seemed to be a chapter about how we can tap into this since out of
body experiences can be manufactured easily. I’m still carefully going through
this book to see where those passages are.
This made me think of a self generated out of body experience. While in college I stole “Getting There Without Drugs” from the library and while only reading the bold text, was able to do this in a few minutes. I have not regenerated this phenomenon but intend to. Low and behold I see you can also have this book read to you via the Internet Archive.
Getting there without drugs: techniques and theories for the expansion of consciousness by Buryl Payne
This is an online version: It’s a great reader and can speak to you.
NASA's Cassini Spacecraft web page
http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/cassini/main/index.html
Tom traveled to the Jet Propulsion Laboratory to paint Uranus and Neptune during their respective visits by Voyager II. He produced this silkscreen to culminate his encounters.
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