the plexiglass pallette is cool though

I forget where I read my favorite recounted obit remark about Kincade:

He made a lot of people think they were looking at art.

For all the hate coming in on this fellow, I feel like this is a good time to say that painting is god damn hard.

I can't paint anything close to even the most horrible Kinkade, and I've been at it for awhile. What makes things even worse is that you can't deny you get better after a few months of serious painting, so you want to keep investing...but you don't have to look very far to figure out you still suck.

The guy in the video seems nice.

gmol stars.

Kincade was an awful hack, and a complete fucking asshole to top it all off.

A glass palette is more useful when you put a grey mid-tone underneath it. This lets you judge your relative brightness of mixes more objectively (assuming you mix on the palette).

Dabbing some highlights onto a finished painting (or a print, ha ha ha) is like looking at a finished cake and putting a few sprinkles on it. Or in this case, like adding some sprinkles to a Twinkie.

I have to concur with fedex here. I spent most of the video telling myself that at least he doesn't have to be a greeter a Wallymart. At least he gets to sit down when he's tired.

shows how much i knew, my naiive ass thought kinkade himself did the highlighting... Too much credit

Nobody is doubting his actual abilities as a painter, we're doubting his choice of subjects, choice of venue, choice of audience, choice of statement, choice of merchandising franchises, choice of lifestyle, choice of personality, choice to pee on people and things in public places, choice to become an alcoholic, choice to slap random Bible verses on things without knowing what they are actually referring to, choice of color associations, choice of business partners, choice of...

Frankly, we're just annoyed he was ever given the freedom of choice in anything, ever, because he always made the wrong one. Ask him if he wanted the chicken or steak and he'd request the elegantly prepared pile of horseshit.

Art is serious business unless it's serious business, then art is bullshit.

Not "bullshit," exactly. In this case, art became a product, not a means of expression. Kinkade (and others) painted what he did because it sold well.

Unless he's got some hidden stash of other works he did "just because?"

But could he paint light?

No one can. Paint doesn't come in RGB colors.

He sure can, Cena. http://www.jamesgurney.com/landscapes.html

He also paints DINOSAURS and light. (He's the one that did the 'Dinotopia' books.) http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_qoMcsvwt0cQ/SwD9d5C0_9I/AAAAAAAACMA/lrnd EuWz30c/s1600/mei_Gurney.jpg

Not to mention that he's one of the nicest pro artists I've ever met.

Additionally, I've been highly successful at being a never-was, and was kind of bummed by it. But, now that I know that I've failed at being a never-was...

...Holy crap! I'll bet my name is in the phone book, now!

I hope he was being ironic.

He probably wasn't.

I did caricatures at county and state fairs every summer from the age of 16 to the age of 22. I gave it up when my urges to actually draw people became too intense to handle (although this was also combined with a heavy diagnosis of Social Anxiety Disorder which makes being in the presence of large groups of people impossible).

beta blockers my friend, beta blockers.

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you really like Thomas Kinkade, huh?

Rockwell actually expressed something with his works, he did paintings outside of his covers for magazines, and he painted a myriad of subjects.

The majority of Kinkade's output is houses with lit-up windows, sold with a lifestyle and religious outlook that's, at best, a facade.

I know you're loving being contrary, Mr. Dumpster, but since you regularly shit on movies and TV programs that are more art than Kinkade's work is, I'll just assume you're trollin'.

Chalkdust, hell no, his art is boring. It's just I don't consider him the devil to all artists either.