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Next month Christine and I will visit Paris together for the first time since she was pregnant with Jackson! (27 years ago.) For some reason she's got the idea that visiting the Louvre' is unnecessary and "too time consuming" for fitting into the three days we'll be there this time. This is wildly incorrect of course. One must ALWAYS 'check-in' with the Louvre when in Paris! So, as a service for 'Tulipino mio'...I will set out here to remind her of a few of the friends I must

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Favorite things

As I begin a 4-part series of paintings, called 'first-favorites', I spent a few minutes today considering some of my favorite...

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Euro Daze

I jump at any opportunity to visit Europe and probably always will. Here are photos of me in EU, on my first AND most recent...

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Foro Romano '23

This spring, Christine and I made Roma our second destination in a 2-city trip. After eight days spent in Amsterdam, we flew to Roma for...

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A Day at the Davenport!

My mom always spoke of the Davenport Hotel in Spokane, Washington as if it were the finest hotel in all the world. When our family...

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Christine's Valise!

When my lovely Christine was in her mid 20s, she was asked one weekend to help her father move from one house to another. In the midst of...

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Falling for Fallingwater!

On an evening long, long ago when our brilliant, 20-ish-month-old Ava had difficulty falling asleep, she and I stayed awake together and...

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I'm an artist. I have been for, well

always. Professionally, I have been an illustrator, a graphic designer, a textile designer, an equipment designer/developer, a retail packaging specialist, an art

director and a bunch of other

posts between those pillars.
I think I am a good artist, but I think I am a DAMN good designer. It has been design of consumer products that has captured my focus for about 25 years. I have designed and developed over 1000 products which have sold under many, many brand labels to markets in the US, Japan and Europe. You can see some of this work in the portfolio site:
www.tomlukens.com

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Here's my favorite painting this month.
This is the first piece, executed in a new 'style' that I have been thinking about for a while.
I call this, 'selfyism' for it's heavy shadows and sharp value contrasts. ...look for a 4-part-series coming soon!

(Oh! this is Mickey Mantle, btw!)

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Foro Romano '23

A Day at the Davenport!

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Falling for Fallingwater!

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Mrs. Wingate in the Ancient Roman Forum???
Can the world's finest modern art director appreciate a visit to the cradle of civilization with her Rome-Nerd husband???

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