Painter Thomas Kinkade arrested for alleged DUI

Famed Placerville-raised painter Thomas Kinkade has been arrested for allegedly driving drunk outside Carmel, according to the California Highway Patrol.

A Monterey County sheriff's deputy initially pulled over Kinkade's Mercedes Benz for a vehicle code violation Friday night, said CHP Officer Robert Lehman. After making contact with the 52-year-old Kinkade, the deputy suspected that he was drunk, Lehman said.

The deputy called the CHP to assist, and an officer performed tests to determine that Kinkade was impaired, Lehman said. The CHP officer arrested Kinkade just after 10 p.m., Lehman said.

Read more: http://blogs.sacbee.com/crime/archives/2010/06/painter-thomas.html#ixzz0qsSg6YSK

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Maybe he's the Painter of the Drunk Tank now.

I doubt he'll be inspired by it. :rofl:

He should have stayed from behind a wheel and got back to his imbibing while in front of an easel.

They also should be smart enough not to get behind the wheel drunk. There simply is no excuse, rich or poor.

Frazetta could have use some too... at least Kincaid still has the opportunity.

huh

drunk fucker is a carbuncle on the ass of western civilization.

selling portraits of it.

You have no idea how much I needed that!!
:rofl: :rofl: :rofl:

:evilgrin:

I wuth trying to juth get to my brightly lit pathstel farmhouth wif the roaring fire. Itth juth over there by the little sthream with the duckies inth it.

Too bad he can't be arrested for art crime...dreadful art crime.

He needs to drink. Leave Tom Alone :cry:

:eyes:

N/T

show me some other options....

Shucks I was hoping it was tax evasion or child pornography.

I like Art, therefore, Kinkade makes me :puke:

He makes Nigerian money offers look good.

Kinkade is so bad that someone could use his works in a different way to make a strong statement about the art market, popular tastes and economics.

J

I think whoever did that might be sued. The appropriation artist might win, depending on how it was done, but it could take awhile. Kinkade is the guy who's so "concerned" about his legacy that he puts his "dna" into each painting for authenticity y'know. Yes, it would make an effective statement about 'the art market, popular tastes & economics.'

I had a friend who owned a gallery. A woman came in and said she had 13 Kinkades and she needed something to go with them. The gallery owner politely but firmly said that she couldn't help because 'the only thing that would go with 13 Kinkades is another Kinkade.' True story from my neck of the woods.
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# Protected with FORGERY PROOF DNA Encoding
Thomas Kinkade's DNA is encoded and visible on the actual canvas (near the signature) which will flouresce with Ultra-Violet light
# 24" x 30" Canvas
# EXTENSIVE Hand Embellished Oil Highlighting personally applied by Thomas Kinkade
# Thomas Kinkade HAND SIGNED using metallic ink
# Extra signature on stretcher bar in thick red pen (see detail) and Tom drew Christian fish
# Thumbprint of Tom on stretcher bar (only Master's Editions have these)
# Master Edition Seal on stretcher bar

Check out this $42,000 painting (supposedly):
http://kraftmstr.com/kinkade/k147b/index.html

"Tom drew Christian fish" ... (for more $)...:puke:

Semi-original??????

What the hell does that mean???
What does that whole sentence mean?

Sheesh in a boat.

:rofl: yeah

In Kincade's case it means the paintings are done by factory workers (excuse me, apprentices) and then the Master comes along and puts a stroke or two on each, WITH his "dna" embedded. I'm not sure how the dna gets in the paint...

Kincade NEVER actually paints one of these paintings. He's just a tycoon--nothing wrong with that EXCEPT that he snookers the unsuspecting into thinking this "art" has value. It has no value --re. the future. It's worth about as much as those Chinese knock-offs. The whole thing is dishonest. I would say fraudulent, but PT Barnum rules Murka.

Here's a good article about Chinese knock-offs, which I compare Kincades to:

http://www.associatedcontent.com/article/547107/china_knock_off_and_piracy_capitol.html

Good God, never mind.

He's right up there with Frazetta and Boris in the Hack Artist Category for $500, Alex.

"Thom would be fine, he would be drinking, and then all of a sudden, you couldn't tell where the boundary was, and then he became very incoherent, and he would start cussing and doing a lot of weird stuff."


http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_Kinkade#Personal_conduct

Oh my God.


I think I'll be checking out of this thread now.

also expect to see the fucking Brady Bunch come skipping out of the little rose-covered cottage being all cheerfully clueless and everything. Especially Marcia, whom I always wanted to slap silly. Just because.



Anyway, I've always felt that in creating the crap he did, he must have been trying to cover up something very dark and creepy underneath that he was too ashamed for others to see.

In 2005, the Points of Light Foundation, a nonprofit organization dedicated to engaging more people more effectively in volunteer service to help solve serious social problems, named Kinkade as Ambassador of Light.

He is the second person in the Foundation’s 15-year history to be chosen as Ambassador,
the first being the organization’s founder, former U.S. President George H. W. Bush

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_Kinkade#Personal_conduct

:thumbsup:

Doncha know his paintings are investments?

a glowing cottage with a quaint farmer passed out in his yard, with empty bottles strewn everywhere.

detox clinics. It would make a great calendar.

Thomas Kinkade's REHABS OF LIGHT, 2011.

I would find those paintings a hell of a lot more interesting and palatable than what he paints now.

new material.

Gotta feed the shadow or it becomes unmanageable.