Cliffside Seashore? (Acrylic on Canvas)

I'm not 100% sure but I think (?) this is an ocean seashore as seen from high above, like from the edge of a cliff? Maybe? It's not bad. A little basic, low(ish) effort perhaps. The land is a little strange. So is the water. But if this is a painting of a real place maybe it really looked like that. Taken as a whole, all of this somehow manages to work. It’s interesting.

Horned Rabbit Bears (Acrylic on Canvas)

This is exhausting...

Alaskan Landscape (Acrylic on Canvas Board)

The (Value) Village Art Gallery is honored to have a celebrity in its midst: here we have a painting by Mary Siah, a well-known community activist, artist and all-around fine lady back in the day, by all reports. A nearby public swimming pool facility is named after her. We are fortunate to have this painting by her, which I would have liked even if it wasn't by anyone I'd ever heard of. Nice little painting here. I wound up buying this one myself.

Good work, ma'am: the (Value) Village Art Gallery tips its hat to you :)

 

Moose and Landscape (Acrylic on Canvas)

I'm getting really good at spelling "silhouette" without having to look it up lately. What is it with all the moose silhoowettes this month? We've definitely had an unusually-high number of salhuwettes in October for some reason. Anyway. This selwuhaitte really isn't that great. The stylized birch trees look rather strange. The mountains are iffy. The little flowers on the ground are...eh. The trees in the background are weirdly uniform. The sky is okay I guess.

Pretty hard to mess up sky though.

Portrait (Oil on Canvas)

Wonderful work here. I couldn't read the date ('75? '78?) but at 47 to 50 years later, I wonder if the artist is is still with us? Or if the subject is? And what the story was? Was this a commisioned work? Or a labor of love? We may never know. 

Regardless of whichever plane of existence you are currently residing in d.paul (?): The (Value) Village Art Gallery salutes you!

Bay Village (Acrylic on Canvas Board)

Another nice one, relatively speaking. And seemingly old, 70s/80s maybe?

Here we have Talent and Effort combined to make something that was worth making. No gnomes, no pokemons, no birch trees and no moose were involved. Very refreshing. 

Landscape (Acrylic on Canvas Board)

This appeared to be quite old, 1970s/80s I'm guessing? Really nice. It's no masterpiece but it is so far beyond the skill level of approximately 90% of the stuff here that I feel like gushing about it. Hopefully (?) the artist is still around and fighting the good fight. 

Wine Bottle and Glass (Acrylic on Canvas Board)

Pardon the glare: this one was framed behind glass.

I like this, kind of. It's really rough, but it has a charm the likes of which we need more of around here. My usual comment in matters such as this: the artist appears to have been trying hard and giving it his/her all, and we are 100% in favor of that kind of thing. Keep painting, pal...

Wildlife Silhouette (Acrylic on Canvas Board)

Not great, but definitely better than we're used to seeing here in recent months. 

Keep at it, artistic-type person.

 

Parrots (Acrylic on Canvas Board)

Some nice ones today. Actually this and the next two are from yesterday but I forgot to add them. 

On the sliding and fairly arbitrary/capricious/mean-spirited scale we use here at our gallery to gauge the quality of our objets d'arte, this one, while not great, would easily fall into the Top Twenty Percent bracket.

It's a bit coarse/rough/shaky but it's not bad.

Well done, my friend.

Collage (Mixed Media on Wooden Plank)

This is the first example of Collage Art that has ever been inducted into our gallery!!!

(Also: I'm pretty sure I'm not a big fan of Collage Art.)

However: I feel that this is a pretty wonderful example of competent, not overworked, well put together, not-too-cluttery Collage Art.

We're quite pleased to have it here :)

And by "we" I mean me. As in I.

Yep!

Sunshine Meadow (Acrylic on Canvas)

Someone's Grammy painted this in 2016. Hard to believe it won "Second Place" in today's gallery additions. But it did.

For real!

Maybe a Horse (Acrylic on Canvas)

Perhaps a Sock? Or an Elbow? Who knows.

I can also kind-of / sort-of see an ominous-looking face in silhouette in the alledged horse's "red mane" area. Pretty sure that's accidental though.

尸木火日Ｚ土0廿 (Acrylic on Canvas)

I love this job...

Leaf Spoon (Acrylic and Hobby Lobby Leaves on Canvas)

You can't make this shit up...

Moose Lake (Acrylic on Canvas)

 

Thoroughly average. Stencilly-looking moose in silhouette. Low-effort trees. A whole lot of blue trees. A black tree.

Way too much blue. 

Two Tree Hill (Acrylic on Canvas)

I have the flu and I'm really tired. Last installation of the day. Whew.

This painting isn't utterly terrible but I've certainly seen better ones that were cheaper and in nicer frames. But whatever. Someone either really loved this, or wanted someone to think they really loved it.

Of course, it wound up at Value Village, so...

Sturgeon (Acrylic on Canvas)

(I don't actually know if this is supposed to be a sturgeon or not. But "sturgeon" is a much funnier word than "fish" so I went with it instead.)

The fact that this, the 600th (!!!) painting to be installed here at the (Value) Village Art Gallery, has wound up being...a demonstrably strange, malformed, unlikely and unusually lippy fish...pretty much sums up our raison d'etre, our Mission Statement, our Modus Vivendi.

Ornate Flowers (Acrylic on Canvas)

The color choices are frankly awful. If this was done freehand and with the artist's imagination, it falls under the category of "Extreme Amateur Barely Okay", I guess. If the artist had to use a template or pattern/stencil though, I guess my question would be "why bother?"

Why bother indeed...

Mountain Lake (Acrylic on Canvas)

Deja Vu! I thought I was having a Senior Moment at first. Then I realized we simply have two very similar paintings on the very same day. You know what that means, right? You guessed it: PAINT NIGHT SUGGESTED TOPIC. This one is about as good as the other one. 

How's that for "damning with faint praise"?

Nothing (Acrylic on Canvas)

The only thing this painting has going for it is that I can think of at least (!) one painting here at the (V)VAG that is worse than it.

Make of that what you will.

Volcano (Acrylic on Canvas)

 I...can't think of anything worth saying here...

Abstract (Acrylic on Canvas)

Not my cup of tea but they're okay. 

I've definitely seen worse.

Bears on Frozen Lake (Acrylic on Canvas)

 Really not so great. And that's being kind.

Mountain Lake (Acrylic on Canvas)

Sky? Not usually red. Mountains? Not usually green. Lakes? They don't usually come with waves hitting their shore. 

It's fine. Someone was having fun here: I guess that's all that matters.