[K-oneTexas]

Enjoyed these for some time now. Relaxing just to look at them.

 

 The letter "N" is hidden in almost all of Thomas Kinkade's paintings. I believe it is his wife's initial. It is typically on a mailbox or in a brick on a walkway. Most of the time it is easy to find. Below are two examples.

 

READ THE FIRST LINE CAREFULLY. .

If God brings you to it, He will bring you through it.

Happy moments, praise God.
Difficult moments, seek God.
Quiet moments, worship God.
Painful moments, trust God.
Every moment, thank God.

 

 

This is a Thomas Kinkade painting.  It's rumored to carry a miracle!    

The water is supposed to be running, so if it's not moving then the picture
didn't come through entirely.

[Al Simmons]

"In sworn testimony and interviews, they recount incidents in which an allegedly drunken Kinkade heckled illusionists Siegfried & Roy in Las Vegas, cursed a former employee's wife who came to his aid when he fell off a barstool, and palmed a startled woman's breasts at a signing party in South Bend, Ind.

And then there is Kinkade's proclivity for "ritual territory marking," as he called it, which allegedly manifested itself in the late 1990s outside the Disneyland Hotel in Anaheim.

"This one's for you, Walt," the artist quipped late one night as he urinated on a Winnie the Pooh figure, said Terry Sheppard, a former vice president for Kinkade's company, in an interview."

This guy is a rip-off artist. His galleries used to sell his PRINTS for $800 a pop more than ten years ago, all the while schmoozing you about the "great resale market", and how they would act as resale agents if you ever wanted to sell...well, a few years later, we tried to do that with a couple of extras, but we were told that "there is no resale market for prints right now."

Big surprise (I should say here that it was THE EX, NOT ME, who insisted on making these purchases, dazzled as she was by his little Christian markings in each painting.

On one of his "introduction videos" that came with one painting, he showed off his "Classic car collection".

I knew right then and there that this guy was all talk, no walk.

His business practices have treaded a very fine line between unethical, and now, apparently, outright fraudulent, as that recent court decision found.....

[lesser_satan]

They're just slandering Kinkade because he actually has talent, a rare trait in today's artistic world. You're not supposed to be successful unless you do something avant- garde, like bescumber a painting of Mary or pour paint haphazardly on a canvas from a ladder. The Dadaists' proclamation that "art is shit" turned out to be quite a self-fulfilling prophecy.

[blowfish]

Visual Muzak. Feh.

[maine-iac7]

"He is a modern-day Leonardo da Vinci or Monet. There is no one in our generation who can paint like that."

I don't know which to do first - puke or LMAO.

I am an artist - a professional. I look at his cotton candy paintings as amateur fluff, dripping of sticky-sweet show masquerading as art - sorry, all you Kinkade fans.

(I'd post a painting to back up my claim as an artist but I've forgotten the formula...)

[Al Simmons]

If you buy a couple of my most exclusive, limited edition prints (only 100,000 prints will be made!!!) for $800 apiece, I'll sell my Duesenberg and give the money to the poor....really I will...

[dead]

Black velvet is really underrated as a medium.

[WorkingClassFilth]

He does, indeed, seem to have a dark side as the La-La Times suggests. Nobody in the world probably has a better fix on darkness than the LAT trolls scratching away in stygian darkness from the grottos in the anterooms of hell.

[fat city]

"This one's for you, Walt," the artist quipped late one night as he urinated on a Winnie the Pooh figure,

Man, I'd pay a bundle for a painting of that. Sounds like good composition, compelling theme, highly symbolic.

[Atlas Sneezed]

Anyone who makes lots of money at what they do will be condemned by most.

That said, Kinkead is a talentless hack, who we call "The Painter of Dreck."

[AD from SpringBay]

The mirage is of exclusivity - create a product for the upper middle class and convince them its worth the price because, well just look at the price. It's almost as good as 'Members Only' glasses.

[martin_fierro]

Somebody -- SOMEBODY -- needs to represent for ol' Bob Ross on this thread.

Might as well be me.

[nitejohnboy]

Kinkade etc.

God this is a long article. Is it just me, or is it poorly written, oddly arranged and terminally repetitive?

[Liberty Valance]

ping

[sphinx]

A tiresome article. I don't know Thomas Kinkade from Rembrandt, but mostly the article deals with allegations of a drinking problem. Sad if true, but a drunken artist is not exactly news. The only reason it's being written up would seem to be that Kinkade is a self-professed Christian, which licenses a nasty little hit piece. Tiresome.

I don't know if Kinkade drinks too much. If he does, I hope he gets help.

[Blue Jays]

Hi All-

Very little is reported about his brother, Mr. Reuben Kinkade, the successful 1970's music producer.

~ Blue Jays ~

[Dinsdale]

A fool and his money were luckey to get together in the first place.

More power to him if he can get people to pay $800 for prints of paint by number work he completed.

[stacytec]

Kinkade has a nice gig going, make "art" and sell it in mass to those most willing to buy into the marketing it is wrapped in. Who needs talent when you can slap hokey inspirational messages on sub-par work and sell the prints at Wal-Mart? Hurry, supplies are limited.

[rawhide]

Kincaid's own spoken words at the deposition will really hurt him.

[durasell]

Reminds me of the slaughter that took place among the Velvet Elvis gangs of Tijuana in the early 1980s.