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Wednesday, February 9, 2011

If life gives you kinks...

Not many people realise how easy it is to make your own Thomas Kinkade paintings in the comfort of your own soundproofed basement 'playroom':
  1. Start with a Van Gogh painting.
  2. Reverse all the colours.
  3. Paint over here and there with a christmas tree and a snowman if you're not afraid of skirting the boundaries of taste.
  4. Profit!!
Indeed, some would have it that Kinkade himself uses exactly this procedure.
No wonder Van Gogh shot himself.
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27 comments:

  1. Substance McGravitasFebruary 9, 2011 at 8:31 AM

    Needs a little Birdemic.

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  2. VonnieFebruary 9, 2011 at 10:24 AM

    Thank you, sounds like the perfect new hobby for me.

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  3. Big Bad Bald BastardFebruary 9, 2011 at 11:16 AM

    Needs more unspeakable horror.

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  4. Hamish MackFebruary 9, 2011 at 1:54 PM

    Also: "If life gives you Kinks" for teh funny

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  5. fishFebruary 9, 2011 at 2:17 PM

    I think the Kinkade painting is much cheerier and more emotionally supportive than the Van Gogh. Cheaper too I hear.

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  6. vacuumslayerFebruary 9, 2011 at 3:12 PM

    Ack. The first one is so moodily beautiful.

    I'm just glad the second pic is not of the moon; I'd never be able to tellr them apart.

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  7. JenniferFebruary 9, 2011 at 3:15 PM

    Oh Smut?? If perchance you run across hdb... tell him to check his email.

    I will not comment on Kinkade... I have sad...

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  8. KathleenFebruary 9, 2011 at 3:30 PM

    why do things always look on fire in a Kincade?

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  9. Hamish MackFebruary 9, 2011 at 3:44 PM

    Wishful thinking on your part Kathleen

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  10. JenniferFebruary 9, 2011 at 3:51 PM

    why do things always look on fire in a Kincade?

    Because they should be...

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  11. Smut ClydeFebruary 9, 2011 at 3:56 PM

    For Kathleen.

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  12. Smut ClydeFebruary 9, 2011 at 4:07 PM

    Someone else has noticed the potential for Kinkade / Caspar David Friedrich crossovers.

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  13. JenniferFebruary 9, 2011 at 4:16 PM

    At first I thought that site was:

    SOMETHINGGALLFULL.COM

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  14. tigrisFebruary 9, 2011 at 4:19 PM

    Great, thanks for ruining CDF for me. You got any "Rowling rewrites Hoffman" links while you're at it?

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  15. Big Bad Bald BastardFebruary 9, 2011 at 4:30 PM

    What I want now is a Thomas Kinkade/H.R. Giger mashup

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  16. Smut ClydeFebruary 9, 2011 at 4:33 PM

    Helping Bastards.

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  17. Smut ClydeFebruary 9, 2011 at 4:35 PM

    Tigris has now inspired me to rewrite 'Kater Murr' in the style of Erin Hunter. BRB.

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  18. tigrisFebruary 9, 2011 at 5:20 PM

    Thank Blob I didn't mention my "Justin Bieber sings Schoenberg" phobia... oh crap.

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  19. ifthethunderdontgetya™³²®©February 9, 2011 at 5:27 PM

    Awesome links, mr. S.C. (if that is your real name).
    ~

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  20. Smut ClydeFebruary 9, 2011 at 5:36 PM

    I don't know who this 'Justin Bieber' is, but a parrot trained to perform Sprechstimme would be nice.
    It would have to be called Parrot Lunaire, of course.

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  21. mikeyFebruary 9, 2011 at 5:53 PM

    I dunno, I really am having a lot of difficulty following this discussion and I can be arsed to do all those google and wiki searches to be able to pretend (poorly) that I know what the HELL y'all are on about.

    But I will leave you with this historical note. In the late nineties, I managed all the sales collateral for the Kinkade empire.

    Yep. It was a CDROM I built, every month, that went out to every retail outlet that handled kinkade merch, that included the painting o'the month, and all the materials necessary to do the ad in a newspaper or magazine.

    I helped destroy art in America and they paid like a fucking slot machine!!

    Bless their hearts...

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  22. 77southFebruary 10, 2011 at 6:52 AM

    It will be a chapter in the novel of his life "In which our hero consorts with evil and is richly rewarded"

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  23. Big Bad Bald BastardFebruary 10, 2011 at 5:04 PM

    Helping Bastards.

    From the H.R. Giger Hobbit calendar!

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  24. KathleenFebruary 11, 2011 at 11:04 AM

    Smut Clyde said...
    For Kathleen.

    ROFL

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  25. KathleenFebruary 11, 2011 at 11:05 AM

    From the H.R. Giger Hobbit calendar!

    my thought exactly

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  26. Smut ClydeFebruary 11, 2011 at 12:30 PM

    Photoshop competition: Giger set designs for Hobbit.
    Best entry gets sent to Peter Jackson.

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  27. ckc (not kc)February 11, 2011 at 7:03 PM

    Also, he is very reluctant to critique anyone’s artwork, being reminded of the fact that if he had listened to the advice of his own teachers, he would not be an artist today.

    ...put that in your curriculum and smoke it!

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