B/c I know how popular Kinkade is around here

[shadow]

I was browsing Craigslist for some original artwork and came across this.

baltimore.craigslist.org/art/3253036992.html

Seriously? People pay that much money for tacky shit?

[ringstrue]

lol that they will get 2.5K for each of those.

[meshaliuknits]

the painter is the third person I think of when I hear the name Kincaid.

1) Alec Kincaid, the hero from Julie Garwood's The Bride
2) My orange kitty, who was named for said character
3) Crappy painter

[shadow]

Well there you go. You know you want to fulfill one of your grandma's wishes...Maybe she'll bequeath it to you down the road. Cash only, Columbia mall!

[Chirp]

My MIL has announced on several occasions that the only thing she wants before she dies is an original Thomas Kinkaid painting. She claims that she will die a miserable and bitter woman if either FIL or H do not fulfill this wish for her.

Sorry, lady. You're going to die miserable and bitter anyway. I'm not dropping that amount of coin on a cheesy painting, just so you can be happy until you find the next thing to be miserable about (which would likely be all of about 2 hours).


ETA: H has offered to buy her a reproduction or a miniature original just to shut her up. Nope. She has to have an original, not a reproduction, and it must be of ample size to hang above the couch. Sorry, not in our budget. Ever. Even if we liked you. It still wouldn't be in the budget.

[basilosaurus]

Now that the guy is dead, it must be more valuable!

I was once, um, undercover in a bible study. My friend, who I was visiting, knew I wasn't religious, and I sat quietly, respectfully, because it was important to her (and appearances) that I go. But, goddamn (um, bad at undercover) was it hard to sit there while so many of the women were going on about a beautiful kincaid they'd seen. Thankfully, my friend has taste, and we laughed about it afterward.

[ringstrue]

They have Disney Kinkades :

[msmerymac]

By "yacht," they mean "house boat," I'm assuming.

Of course, money can't buy class.

[darthnbjenni]

My mother, who never worked a day in her life, took a job at one of his galleries in our local mall simply for the discount. She owns, and I shit you not, a minimum of 30 of his paintings - not even the prints. All 3,000 sq ft of their house is plastered in his tacky shit!