At a press conference, Thomas Kinkade and Jeffrey Vallance discuss Kinkade’s “Heaven on Earth,” an exhibit at CalState Fullerton’s Grand Central Art Center, in Santa Ana, California, in 2004.

A rebel without a pause, Tom looks back in anger….. The self-proclaimed and trademarked “painter of light” was so popular among fans of pastels and candlelit windows that his company, Media Arts Group, went public with a 0 IPO in 1994. Kinkade was MDA on the NYSE until January 2004, when he bought in back for .7 million after the stock had lost more than 80% of its value. It was kind of like buying a Kinkade painting that may have had some nonsentimental value in the pre-Internet ’90s, but when the Internet hit and the markets were flooded with Kinkades selling for much less than they were in stores, investment value plummeted. “He has gorgeous stuff, but they QVCed it to death,” Kahn says. “They sell beautiful Kinkade prints in galleries and on cruise ships, but the frames are worth more than the prints.” Thomas Kinkade Signature Galleries, which peaked at 350 sites in the 1990s, were half that number by 2005. The next year, former Thomas Kinkade Signature Gallery franchise owners Karen Hazelwood and Jeffrey Spinello were awarded .8 million and legal fees after successfully arguing that they were pressured to open more franchises, take on inventory they couldn’t sell and keep prices lofty while discounters and independent sellers unloaded their Kinkades for less. His company’s assistant controller testified that Kinkade earned million off the enterprise through 2005. More recently, Kinkade’s reproduction company filed for bankruptcy in June after defaulting …

Visit the blog at: sagelighteditor.wordpress.com This tutorial shows how to use Sagelight Image Editor to blend the Oil Paint and Circle Paint with the original image to get a more ‘Thomas Kinkade’-type paintings in Sagelight. I also show a more watercolor-type painting at the end of the video. The Circle Paint and Oil Paint make interesting images on their own. But, when you combine them, you can make an even different style of painting. You can use many different settings to control how the painting looks. In this tutorial, I show two examples. One that is a nice Christmas Scene and has a very nice oil painting effect (a different type of oil painting than the Oil Paint Effect in Sagelight), with lots of sharp detail. The other one is more like a watercolor lanscape scene.

Words and music written by Mike Verzi © – Vocals by Natalya Clemens.