Renderings By Tom Hames
A small sample of
over 2,000 renderings
done by Tom
Hames in the past
42 years. None
of these
works are digital in
any aspect. At the
end of this
page is a biography
of Tom Hames.
Please
Note: All of these works
are the copyright of Tom Hames.
The
images depicted on
this site belong to the owner of this web
site
and
consists of images from the personal collection
of
Tom
Hames of which Mr. Hames has kindly donated
the
archive of
his work, on slide film, to the owner
of
this site. I have scanned
and removed minute foreign
artifacts
from the images where
warranted.
Tom Hames
is available to do custom renderings in the medium
of acrylic or
oil on stretched canvas and also wall murals.
Passing Through
Two Moons
Acrylic on stretched
canvas.
Current Location:
Turkey.
Solar Sail
Horsehead Nebula
Lost Moon
48" x 96" (122cm x
244cm)
Over Mars
36"x48" (91cm x 122cm)
Current Location:
Kyoto, Japan.
NGC
24" x 36" (61cm x
92cm)
Oil & Acrylic
Current Location:
Athens, Greece
Eclipse
Event Horizon
Tower
24" x 48" (61cm x
122cm)
Oil & acrylic
M33
Red Spot Of Jupiter
8" x 10" Done In Oil
On Edge
Current Location: California
M31 Galaxy in
Andromeda
Comet and Clusters
Big Red
Five Moons
Current Location:
S.A.G.E. Planetarium,
Palmdale, Ca., U.S.A.
Ruin
By Night
36" x 48" (92cm x
122cm)
Current Location:
Athens, Greece
Solar Sail Above Earth
This rendering also
appears on page 278
of
The Smithsonian Book
of Flight
Walter J. Boyne,
Author
Comet Over Valley
Current Location:
S.A.G.E. Planetarium,
Palmdale, Ca., U.S.A.
DX78
Jupiter
Earthrise
Mars Viking
Mt. Palomar
Observatory
24" x 30" (61cm x
76cm)
Current Location:
Athens, Greece
Farm Visitor
Acrylic on stretched
canvas-16"
(41cm) x 20" (51cm)
Current Location:
Athens, Greece
Big Sky
Test
48" x 96" (122cm x 244cm)
Attack
48" x 72" (122cm x 244cm)
Klatu
8" x 10" (20cm x 25cm)
Saturn from Titan
Acrylic on stretched canvas
24" x 48" (121cm x 60cm)
Current Location:
Kyoto, Japan.
Desert Dusk
Visitor
Current Location:
S.A.G.E. Planetarium,
Palmdale, Ca., U.S.A.
New Moon
Two Suns
Double
Edge On
Four Suns Of Blue
Galaxy2
Pleiades2
Triffid
Uranus
Space History
48" x 72" (122cm x 183cm)
Saturn V Liftoff
On The Moon
Early Earth
Cone Nebula
M51
Impacts
Saturn
Viking
Galaxy
Crashed
Edge On
Green
Space Guitar
Done for the music group "The
Eagles" in the 1970's.
Ruins
Fold
Asteroid
A
Sample Of Science Fiction Renderings By Tom Hames
A
Sample Of Non Astronomical/Space Renderings By Tom Hames
Works
By Tom Hames Depicted In Print
Biography of Mr. Tom Hames
Tom
Hames, born 1951, in Lakewood, California. His initial introduction to
a
paintbrush was at the early age
of ten. He started out by doing
pencil
sketches, portraits and science fiction art. At the age of twelve he
discovered a passion for
astronomy that he
has kept up with ever since. At the age of sixteen he built his first
telescope. It was a 12.5-inch
reflecting
telescope, with the optics ground, figured and polished by himself. Tom
has also mastered the art of
optical
telescope making. The largest optical system that he has ground,
polished,
and figured was a 20”
(50.8cm) mirror.
Tom
has received formal training at the Pasadena Art Center College of
Design, Long
Beach Art Institute,
Westmore Academy of Cosmetic
Arts and Dick
Smith’s “The Advanced Professional Makeup Course”.
From
the 1960’s up to the early 1980’s Tom attended many of the
science fiction
conventions hosted in
the southern California area,
displaying
and selling his renderings. Tom is now spending his full time painting
astronomical renderings.
Tom’s ideas for
his renderings come form many sources. He receives inspiration
for his renderings at the
eyepiece of a
telescope. His active interest in Science Fiction has also played
a key role in his fabrication of
conceptual designs for his work. Tom is an avid listener of Classical
and
“Space” Music while
working on his
renderings. He receives a certain amount of inspiration from the music.
During
these years he also worked at Griffith Observatory, in Los Angeles, as
a
graphics anddisplay artist.
Tom also had the opportunity to
work at
Hanna Barbera Studios. There his talents were put to use in
backgrounds and airbrush special
effects.
His
artwork has also appeared in Science Digest Anniversary Edition
‘86, World
Space Foundation, and
The Smithsonian Book of Flight.
Collectors
in various foreign countries also own his art... England,
France, Germany, Greece, Japan
and Turkey.
The bulk of his artwork resides in California. Tom
has rendered just over 2,000
original
paintings, in the medium of oil and acrylic, in the last 48 years.
His works have ranged in size
from
20”(51cm) x30”(76cm) to 120”(3m) x1,296”(32.6m).
None
of his works are digital in
any aspect.
Mr. Tom Hames
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