I like See's candy! But I can only eat a few before I've had enough. Three See's candy during one time is too much sugary sweet for my palate. However one or two is great. That is the way I enjoy Thomas Kinkade. His paintings of English style cottages surrounded by beautifully dappled Autumn rays of shadow and light are nice, quaint, ideal, Norman Rockwellian enough for a few minutes a week but to see his stuff on computer screens, mugs, coasters, night lights, paper napkins is too much. It is sickening sweet. It makes me nauseous. That is why 5 years ago I began asking local dealers the questions, "Aren't you concerned that Mr. Kinkade is over marketing his stuff?" Their reply was one of insult. "Why Uh no!" "People are buying his stuff like mad!" Yes and they WERE buying his stuff, However the "Born Again" artist who signs every painting with a fish and John 3:16 now finds himself extremely unpopular. The problem? Mr. Kinkade's marketing schemes have ended up making him millions while his faithful believing (Many of them Christians who believed they were spreading the faith) followers have gone bankrupt. The details are too much for me to go into here but i just pose the question, "Didn't Thomas see this coming?" I mean come on, does it take a genius to know that this was going to happen? Ofcourse not. I believe Thomas milked everything he could to get every penny he could before his stuff would go out of style. Oh btw, I hope you didn't buy one!
