Flower (Acrylic on Canvas)

 

Again with the black and purple! It’s everywhere.

This actually isn’t that bad. It’s uninteresting and yawn-inducing a but there’s talent here.

Artist: next time paint something more important, more worthy of your time paint and canvas.

Beach Scene (Acrylic on Canvas)

Cartoony, crayon coloring-book-y and very kid-like. Not very good at all. Sorry man…

Peacock Feathers and Hokey Slogan (Acrylic on Canvas)

I just hate this kind of stuff…

But if you think the above painting is bad, here’s what I spared you today, which is six of the following (different artist btw): I absolutely applaud the sentiments but I hate the execution…

Flowers and Bamboo maybe? (Acrylic on Canvas)

It’s good. Dull, but good. Technically proficient for sure. Someone would definitely like to own this I bet. Just not me. 

Mexican Skull (Acrylic on Canvas)

Niche and for a very specific audience but there’s some legit talent here. Time was spent, effort was exerted. I have no complaints.

Mushroom? (Acrylic on Canvas)

This is right up there with the very worst paintings we’ve ever exhibited here. It is without a doubt in the Top Ten, and might even be in the Top Three.

Nothing else needs to be said.

Forest Lake Scene (Acrylic on Canvas)

This feels…weird. Candyland-ish. Or CandyOutlandish. The colors are off. I expect to see the White Witch rolling up with her midget and offering me some Turkish Delight at any moment.

Mountain Landscape (Oil on Canvas)

By any objective metric this is a really really good painting.

It’s a shame that it’s of such a boring and overdone subject.

I’m beginning to think we have more paintings of Alaskan mountains here than there are actual mountains in Alaska. Whew…

Flower (Acrylic on Canvas)

Too much blue, too much black, and not enough originality. I feel like squiggly signature person in the lower left could do better than this boring and badly-stemmed flower. 

Garden Ghosts (Acrylic on Canvas)

 Aside from it feeling to me like something one might find being painted on an Instagram reel (or being sold on Etsy) I gotta admit: I kinda like it! I especially like the little critters doing their thing. Good job, artistic-type personoid…

Mountain Scene (Acrylic on Canvas)

I’m back.

Actually I never left. I’ve been accumulating paintings to install for the past month: I just been lazy and haven’t gotten around to installing them. Now I have 40ish paintings to review all at once. Ugh.

(That last sentence was my review of this one.)

Just kidding. It’s boring and is violating my rule against blue, black and “things in silhouette” i.e three of the seven most overused etceteras in Amateur Art (the others being gray, pink, purple and “left-unpainted white canvas”) but it is reasonably good from a technical standpoint.

So there!