Alaska Scenes (Acrylic on Canvas)

I’m fairly confident that these paintings are all by the same person. Although I suppose it’s possible that various random Applebees Paint Night organizers wind up with an over abundance of leftover canvases abandoned by demoralized semi-drunk and carb-loaded amateur artists. Who then go on to ditch these things in bulk at Value Village every few weeks/months. Who can tell?

HOWEVER: while these are demonstrably, provably, obviously “not very good” paintings, they really DO still somehow manage to have a kind of charm. I will maintain to my grave that a BRIGHT bad painting really is more appealing than a DARK bad one. And these are bright, boy. Like BRIGHT bright. Lots of good hokey ham handed amateur work to praise here.The Northern Lights in paintings #2 are the most appealing “Bad Amateur Northern Lights” I’ve ever seen here. The sky in painting #3 is pretty okay. I can’t explain it. As bad as these paintings are, I just like them. Would I hang one on my wall? Hell no! But…they’re not unforgivably awful.