The whole art scene is a big scam. My wife and I both had a favorite teacher in HS who became a successful commercial artist. We have several of his paintings. I’ve seen them advertised for as much as $15000 each, but I’ve never seen any sale even remotely close to that. A friend of ours owned a gallery. He’d buy one of those paintings for $150 at an estate sale or a corporate bankruptcy (a lot of them ended up in co. lobbies), advertise it for $15,000 and eventually sell it for maybe $3000.
Opal should stick with painting as an amateur and save her works. Who knows, after she dies her relatives (if there are any) can point to her “works of art” and say they have “an Opal collection” and it’ll be priceless, just like in art galleries.
enigmamz 25 days ago
Beauty is in the eye of the beholder, as is “what it is”.
Ratkin 25 days ago
The whole art scene is a big scam. My wife and I both had a favorite teacher in HS who became a successful commercial artist. We have several of his paintings. I’ve seen them advertised for as much as $15000 each, but I’ve never seen any sale even remotely close to that. A friend of ours owned a gallery. He’d buy one of those paintings for $150 at an estate sale or a corporate bankruptcy (a lot of them ended up in co. lobbies), advertise it for $15,000 and eventually sell it for maybe $3000.
Wilde Bill 25 days ago
Lucky for Earl that it wasn’t a self portrait.
Muttley 25 days ago
Opal’s shirt reminds me of the tie-dye t-shirts I used to wear in high school… a long time ago, in a galaxy far, far away…
win.45mag 25 days ago
Was she painting her sister ?
Concretionist 25 days ago
I have learned to say “Mmm. Nice colors. Can you tell me what you were thinking about as you drew it?” That way I don’t call the cow a rhino.
Doug K 25 days ago
A female rhinoceros is called a cow.
LeftCoastKen Premium Member 25 days ago
Rhinoceros … Cow. Po-TAY-to … Po-TAH-to.
PraiseofFolly 25 days ago
The Moooona Lisa?
iggyman 25 days ago
She just painted it off the hoof!
The Reader Premium Member 25 days ago
A cow that has had rhinoplasty.
juicebruce 25 days ago
Well Opal at least you did not get paint on the Bunny Slippers ;-)
mckeonfuneralhomebx 25 days ago
I thought it was a self portrait..
GoPickled Premium Member 25 days ago
Dear Opal could have a talent like Picasso…
FJB Premium Member 25 days ago
Well, to be fair, they both have 4 legs.
luca.debus creator 25 days ago
What is a rhinoceros if not just a horny cow? Or wait, maybe a cow is a horny cow…wait…
wirepunchr 25 days ago
That picture is so moooooooving.
w16521 25 days ago
Looks like Opal got plenty of paint on her blouse too.
SamT53 25 days ago
Who didn’t see that one coming?
ANIMAL 25 days ago
NEVER assume……
ANIMAL 25 days ago
HOLY COW.!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
jlundy 25 days ago
The last couple of days gives me a sense of ‘here we go again’. Seems like every couple of years, Opal goes through this same artistic crisis…
Angry Indeed 25 days ago
Aw, somobody ripped off one of it’s horns!
Angry Indeed 25 days ago
That’s Opal’s vision of “street art”. It belongs in a garbage can next to the street.
elgrecousa Premium Member 25 days ago
Oh well, what’s the difference; it’s all in your head anyway.
hubbard3188 25 days ago
That’s a pretty good looking herbivore.
JudithStocker 25 days ago
Opal should stick with painting as an amateur and save her works. Who knows, after she dies her relatives (if there are any) can point to her “works of art” and say they have “an Opal collection” and it’ll be priceless, just like in art galleries.
stepzla 25 days ago
Off topic, just need someplace to whine…
zeexenon 25 days ago
When will he ever learn … when will he ever learn ….
oakie817 25 days ago
close enough
Lola85 Premium Member 25 days ago
I’m a very good painter. Our kitchen cabinets look great, and I also do walls and furniture pretty well, too. :-)
goboboyd 25 days ago
Perspective, depth, gaze, and horns.
Slowly, he turned... 24 days ago
They say anyone can do art!…. oh, I stand corrected.
David Huie Green LosersBlameOthers&It'sYOURfault 24 days ago
“Sure you can say that if you want to, but wouldn’t you LIKE to have a cow that looked like a rhinoceros?”
prrdh 24 days ago
Maybe if she tries to paint a rhinoceros, it’ll look like a pretty good-looking cow.
Of course, it could also look like, say, a pretty good-looking narwhal.