Marbleized Canvas (Latex Paint on Canvas)

Another one of the furshlugginer things?!? Potrzebie!

Cattle (Acrylic on Canvas)

We’ve got a very weird choice of colors here: pale green and pale pink. Along with an anti-silhouette (white instead of black) which is something we don’t often see. Some of the pink blobs look like hearts, but some don’t.

This thing is inscrutable.

Landscape (Acrylic on Canvas)

Weird corkscrewy trees. Like those spiral-cut potatoes on sticks you can buy at the Fair. But: there’s no blue purple black grey or white involved. So that’s something. This is a nice solid 3 on my “Artistic Merit One to Ten” Scale, mostly because of the mountains sky and sun, and the color choices used for them.

Birch Trees (Acrylic on Canvas)

Soooo many birch trees in our gallery. Like so so so many. And so much blue. It’s exhausting. 

Hockey (Acrylic on Canvas)

I’m betting this actually looks like what the artist wanted it to look like. It’s not bad. It just has the feel of a selfie, like so many Amateur Artist paintings do nowadays. Nothing to really complain about here. It’s a painting.

(Except: too much blue!)

Flowers (Watercolor on Paper)

It’s rather nice.

Seriously!

Birch Trees (Acrylic on Canvas)

(It’s a bad sign when you can’t tell if a painting of trees is upside-down or not. Pretty sure this is facing the right way but 🤷‍♂️)

Also: we have waaaay too many paintings of birch trees in this here dang ol’ dang ol’ gallery.

Camera (Pen and Ink on Parchment)

Ginormous hands on tiny wrists. And the camera aperture looks like a sphincter.

I’m assuming the index finger is done like that in order to convey a sense of motion? The only other explanation is that we have a hand with six or seven fingers on it. Egad!

Sunset Dance (Acrylic on Canvas)

Only one of my “Tell-Tale Signs of an Amateur Artist” is present here, which is Things in Silhouette (“too much blue” doesn’t apply in this case). Apart from that (and these people’s rather wonky legs, and the lady only having one arm), this isn’t bad. It’s kind of appealing, actually. If you squint a bit…

Octopus (Acrylic on Canvas)

This is really pretty good. These are some confident brush strokes and these are some fairly good colors in the water. The octopus itself looks natural. I would have preferred for the water to go all the way to the edge of the canvas though: unpainted canvas bugs me.

Still, nice work!

Dog (Acrylic on Canvas)

This is so amateurish and rough that it’s actually sort of interesting. Not sure how that works: it’s just the way I see it. This could’ve been much better though…

Swan (Oil on Canvas)

The neck reflection in the water isn't so great. And the water itself is kind of low effort. But this all somehow manages to come together and make for a fairly decent painting. It feels…real. Legitimate. Authentic. It’s not great, but it’s definitely pretty good 👍 

Flower and Ladybug (Acrylic on Canvas)

I swear I think I’ve seen this painting, or one very much like it, here before.

If this winds up being an identical duplicate (like when the same exact painting winds up at Value Village more than once, months or years later) I’ll have it removed.

But if this is just another version of the exact same scene, it stays.

Postscript: Son of a Bitch!!! I was right!!!: https://valuevillageartgallery.blogspot.com/2025/01/ladybug-acrylic-on-canvas.html?m=1

Marbleized Canvas (Latex Paint on Canvas)

Boy I’m really kinda tired of these things.

This is a nice one, but I’m still just not a fan…

Christmas Snoopy (Acrylic on Canvas)

I eventually figured out what this was supposed to be but honest to God for about a week I thought Snoopy’s snoot was bandaged for some reason.

There is a lot to dislike here. We have one of the most recognizable comic and cartoon characters of the 21st Century and he’s…all wrong. Check out his ear. It looks like a tie from the 80s! And his eye! It’s all wrong. His body is wrong too: his stomach and legs/feet are without any depth or detail. And the roof of his doghouse has no slats!

Otherwise, it’s perfect!

Cacti (Acrylic on Canvas)

Whew.

Just…whew.

Turtle (Acrylic on Canvas)

This is pretty rough, if I’m being honest. And pretty uninteresting. We get a lot of this kind of thing here. Also: a silhouette, black and blue: the tell-tale signs of the Amateur Artist.

Birch Trees (Acrylic on Canvas)

It’s no masterpiece: it’s uninteresting, formulaic, boring. But the colors are kind of nice. And we’ve definitely seen worse.

I can live with it.

Tree (Acrylic on Canvas)

Very uninteresting.

Strangely-Colored Forest (Acrylic on Canvas)

Really really odd. The pastel pink. The pastel blue/green. The black! The white! And…those trees. Dang. I usually try to find at least a little something positive to say. In this case: this reminds me of a chalk drawing on an old-school legitimately black school blackboard. So…there’s a nostalgia aspect that somewhat redeems this peculiar little number.