“Yard Dog in Seattle” (Oil on Canvas)

 (Value Village Art Gallery Favorite)

Ahhhh Art! ART! This is what I like to see! Real Art by a real artist: no snowmen, no Northern Lights, no Yodas or Ponkemons or Trolls involved: just Real Art!

Well done, my friend :)

Alaska Landscape (Oil on Canvas)

(Value Village Art Gallery Favorite)

This thing was pretty huge. Pretty nice. Old too: 1970! I wonder how it wound up at VV. And who held onto it for 50+ years. And why that person (or his/her surviving relatives?) decided to get rid of it. Regardless, I like this and it shows at least a degree of talent. Nothing mind-blowing per se but definitely some Real Art by a Real Person: not some post-Internet / Social Media / Smart Phone pod person.

Two Thumbs Up 👍 👍 

Moose Cow and Calf (Pencil on Parchment)

Really nicely done. 

I personally am not a fan of pencil or charcoal sketching but this is a great example of it for sure.

Western Scene (Acrylic on Canvas)

“Needs Work!”

Isn’t that what teachers used to put on some badly-done homework assignments? Seems like I saw that a lot as a kid. Anyway, this really isn’t that terrible. “Things in Silhouette” is usually a bad sign around here, but other than that (and the fact that the silhouettes themselves are kinda wonky, and the birds are low effort) this isn’t absolutely horrible. 

More Flowers in the Dark (Acrylic on Canvas)

Paintings of flowers in the dark, without any sunlight, is something I will never understand.

These flowers? They’re not great, but they’re not bad. But the blackness all around them. Whew…

Abstract (Acrylic on Canvas)

I have no time or patience for this kind of thing today, sorry. It looks like a drop cloth. Pfft.

“North Polet” (Acrylic on Canvas)

Ho Hum…

Horizon (Acrylic on Canvas)

Slightly less uninteresting than the previous one. The colors here are more appealing as well. 

Birds and Sky (Acrylic on Canvas)

Thoroughly Average. Meh.

Night Time Treeline (Acrylic on Canvas)

 Not great, not terrible.

Birch Trees (Acrylic on Canvas)

 (Value Village Art Gallery Favorite)

This is, simply put, the best “Birch Trees”-type painting we have ever installed here. 

Unfortunately, that’s not saying much, since literally every Birch Tree painting we’ve installed prior to this was really really…really…not so great.

But this is good. We’re quite glad to have it.