Yet Another Mini-Retrospective (Acrylic on Canvas)

Here we have another couple of paintings that I am 99% certain were painted by the same person. 

When I see stuff like this (and I really do see a LOT of it) I often wonder what the person responsible would be capable of if he or she were to paint something that mattered, from real life, from the heart, that they used the correct colors of paint with. This is a case in point. These paintings (and the many many many like them up in here) aren't awful per se, but they certainly aren't very good. Moreover, the subjects are unimportant, tedious, tiresome, overdone, and uninteresting in the EXACT SAME WAY that are the works of easily 50 to 75 other alleged artists here. They're all "not that great" in a very similar fashion. The REASON for all this is that...there was clearly no soul, no heart, no spirit, no blood or sweat or tears expended in their collective creation. Or any organic inspiration.

But most importantly, there was no...love? Yes, that's it. 

To paraphrase a line from a recent movie: "When I see your paintings, they look like they were painted with no love."

EVERYONE: stop painting from (and being inspired by) Social Media: TikTok, Instachat, Snapgram and Flapcrap. This is important: stop doing things simply to be seen having done them! Instead, try painting for YOURSELF, and from the GUT. I know you can do it. You DO have a gut: paint from it. Paint Tough. Every single freaking time. Otherwise you're faking it and it does not count.