I Just Don’t Know (Acrylic on Canvas)

I have no idea what this is or what it is supposed to mean. I really think the artist was just farting around. If there’s a message here, I’ve missed it. I am up for suggestions though. So: if you think you know what this painting is all about, feel free to comment below and I’ll gladly remove my review and put yours up here instead.

Sunflower (Acrylic on Wooden Board)

Artist: what’s up with the black background? Would it have killed you to put a nice blue sky back there? A light blue maybe? Are we looking at a sunflower in the middle of the night? Whew…

Van Gogh Knockoff (Acrylic on Canvas)

I like Van Gogh and I like people and artists who like Van Gogh. This painting though? No, sorry. I don’t like it. Too dark, too…something.

I just don’t like it 🤷‍♂️

Ocean Scene (Acrylic on Canvas)

Minimum Effort expended? Check!

Lucy (Acrylic on Canvas)

Too much blue, purple, pink and unpainted canvas. And then some unpleasant shades of green.

Lucy, you have some splainin’ to do…

Emojis (Acrylic on Canvas)

We have Social Media and Smart Phones to blame for this shit. What a terrible terrible century this is turning out to be…

Ocean Scene (Acrylic on Canvas)

The colors are a little bit…dreary.

Not a fan.

Black Flowers (Acrylic on Canvas)

I don’t know what order these should be hung in. Honestly I don’t care. These are black and gray flowers. What difference does it make?

Black. And. Gray. Flowers!

(Addendum: I figured it out and re-sorted the pics as best I could manage vertically, in order to kinda reflect what the artist probably intended. It’s still ugly though. Pfft.)

Pfft Who Knows? (Acrylic on Canvas)

A waste of perfectly good blue paint and canvas. I’m pretty sure erosion could have done this (or something very much like it) to the side of a barn.

Landscape (Acrylic on Canvas)

 (Value Village Art Gallery Favorite)

Yep, we support normalcy here. And by we I mean me. Me being the owner and curator of this nutty little gallery. I have an appreciation for talent and traditional representational art. Still Lifes, landscapes, portraits: I dig them. We need more of them in general. And less of the “Tampon in a Teacup”-type jive that has become so normalized. Down with post-Modernism. Down with Modernism. Up with Olderism. And pre-Olderism! Huzzah!

Good job Drickey: keep painting :)

Weird Graveyard (Acrylic on Canvas)

Really unusual. Not exactly great but far from being bad. Strange in a very original way. We’re sort of glad to have it. I guess? Whatever it is, that is…

Books and Coffee (Acrylic on Canvas Board)

It’s…kind of okay I guess. Bright colors at least, but a trite and uninteresting subject. This is what I call “Lifestyle Art”: the artist is telling the viewer “Hi! I like books and coffee!” There’s a lot of this kind of thing nowadays. I blame Social Media: lots of self-focused “me me me” inward-looking, almost no outward-looking or appreciation of the sublime.

Also: I’m not sure who, in real life, would put their steaming cup of coffee on a stack of books. But 🤷‍♂️

Colored Patterns (Acrylic on Canvas)

Not super interesting. About the only kind thing I can say is that the waves/ripples look very organic and natural. And the gradients of color in each painting are very well done.

Not Sure (Acrylic on Canvas)

 Is this underwater? Wind in tree branches? Who can tell 🤷‍♂️

Whatever it is, it’s not so great.

Random Patterns (Acrylic on Canvas)

Really don’t know what this is supposed to be. Really don’t care. This is really not very good. Gross combination of colors, low-effort execution. Feh!

Faces (Acrylic on Canvas Board)

 (Value) Village Art Gallery Favorite

I am blown away by these paintings. “Comparisons are Odious” as they say, but these semi Keene-like, semi Mark Ryden-ish paintings, done in black and shades of gray the way they are, combined with the fact that they appear (?) to be actual portraits of real people…I mean just WOW! I am a fan (I bought the top two shown here by the way.)

DRS: what a pleasure it was for me to have found these paintings of yours before they were snapped up. The (V)VAG is honored to have your paintings on display here. Keep up the good work :)

Castle (Acrylic on Canvas)

It’s certainly colorful, I’ll give it that much. And while it’s just not very important or profound or umm very encouraging that the viewer reflect on the sublime, for what it IS, it is actually reasonably well done. It almost certainly looks like what the artist wanted it to look like.

The end.

Posing Nudes (Acrylic on Canvas)

(Value) Village Art Gallery Favorite

Hayden! My dude/dudette! You and a certain other artist whose work I am about to install have MADE MY DAY. Good work my friend! It is a pleasure to include your work here at the illustrious (Value) Village Art Gallery. Why these wonderful paintings of yours wound up at Value Village is a real head scratcher…

Woods Road (Acrylic on Canvas)

Weird grey road, weird grey trees and treeline. But: the sky is actually kind of nice. 

I wonder why the artist’s name was removed? The painting isn’t THAT bad…

Cacti (Acrylic on Canvas)

As previously (and oft!) mentioned, I am not a fan of left-unpainted canvas. Otherwise this is a fairly decent looking cactus. I had to do a double-take though since I installed another cactus earlier today and was worried that I was posting it a second time. This one is much better though.