Apparently they were watching “A West Side Story”, which is probably different to West Side Story, so maybe this painting would make sense/be good in the context??? Uh, no.
MARIA
I feel pretty,
Oh, so pretty,
I feel pretty and witty and bright!
And I pity
Any girl who isn’t me tonight.
I feel charming,
Oh, so charming
It’s alarming how charming I feel!
And so pretty
That I hardly can believe I’m real.
See the pretty girl in that mirror there:
Who can that attractive girl be?
Such a pretty face,
Such a pretty dress,
Such a pretty smile,
Such a pretty me!
I feel stunning
And entrancing,
Feel like running and dancing for…
Oh come on you guys! Sure, I dont’ get it, and it’s not my definition of art, but that doesn’t make it Regretsy-bad.
Top three reasons my avatar is more Regretsy than that painting:
That painting would look fine in a reception area. My avatar would not.
That painting may not be someone’s idea of art, but it’s surely someone’s idea of pleasing. My avatar is no one’s idea of pleasing.
The painting is not alarming. My avatar is alarming.
They have ONE thing in common: they’re for…
I think it’s time to pick up the paint brush again. I would be embarrassed to ask $95 for a piece of crap like that. I’d be too embarrassed to even paint a piece of crap like that.
OOOH! My bad. She only made the first painting. Helen made the rest. LMAO at myself and my stupidity, but I’m so used to seeing crap on Etsy, I just assumed……. ::::sheepishly grinning:::: Apologies to the artist, but I still give an F to the original piece for lack of creativity.
Thank God the artist clarified in the title that it was Handmade. This kind of quality and creativity can seldom be found outside of mass-produced works.
Legend has it that Sun-Tzu wrote the following passage from The Art of War while taking a dump on Tiantai mountain:
On level ground
Logs and boulders
Say still;
On steep ground
They move;
Square, they halt;
Round, they roll.
Skillfully deployed soldiers
Are like round boulders
Rolling down
A mighty mountainside.
These are all matters
Of potential energy.
…This is fine art like that bedsheet someone visited aunt Flo on was a fashion accessory. Seriously, does this mean I can nail a used condom to a board and charge 95 bucks for it cause I was boning some girl while The Phantom Of The Opera was on?
I don’t know what y’all are talking about. This is *art* – more than any boring ol’ Botticelli in the Uffizi or whatever Michelangelo crapped out. It takes real talent to do whatever the hell this bullshit is.
Vile & Evil Debbie Downer
February 15, 2010 at 7:04 pm
#29 hidden due to low comment rating, you’re that 365 self-portraits chick from the Valentines list, aren’t you? Because all you ever do is talk about your own avatar. Which is cool, but
@#58 VEDD: I completely agree with you. What the fuck was comment #29 supposed to be? An infomercial? It might have been more effective had it been narrated by Eric Estrada or Suzanne Sommers. I really hope someone buys that thing so we don’t have to hear about it anymore.
#58 & #59: Yes and completely. Also, I’ve got mild crushes on you both, but that’s another conversation.
#29, you got cut off before you finished (and before you got overwhelmingly thumbs-downed). I think (and hope) you were going to say, “the recycle bin” which might have merited some public approval. But I’m afraid some affected mod podge magazine cut outs on a mannequin’s head is no one else’s opinion of conversation worthy.
You might try the Etsy Promo forum for less obvious…
@#56 Thistle :
Nope…An older movie called “Life Without Dick”….I guess its fairly obscure :/
But theres this one great scene, the main girl paints but all of her paintings are just a solid colour on canvas. And some people were looking at her “Blue” painting and being all “snobby art critiques”
“Thats a lot of blue”
“Yep…theres a lot of blue in that”
#58, 59, 60 – I’m also fairly sure that hidden is (at least) one of the perpetrators of the thumbs down plague because none of the (seemingly obligatory now) thumbs downs started appearing til their diatribe on why their avatar is FAR SUPERIOR REGRETSY BAIT than anything else on here/
Vile & Evil Debbie Downer
February 15, 2010 at 11:47 pm
#66 SunshineSanctuary, could be, but the serial Red Thumber has been around for a loooong time. Comes and goes as the perpetrator gets bored or runs out of crack.
#63 Skully~
I apologize. I didn’t mean to leave you hanging. What got cut off was the term, “self promotion.” As in less obvious self promotion. As in (#29) submit your shit to Helen if you think it’s Regretsy-worthy, but don’t serve it up to us here in an “aww, shucks, I suck” manipulation ploy. Regretsy works so well because it’s genuine, honest, sincere. That ploy is desperate and lame, and desperate and lame draws stinks and draws flies. Not in a Regresty way.
#75 I must confess, I am a little disappointed–some of my lame approaches aren’t as nuancedly lame as I’d like. Could clue you in on the fact that I’ve been playing you from the second you clicked that ‘thumbs-down’.
Also, I had to laugh at Regretsy being described as ‘genuine, honest, sincere’. Helen is probably laughing too.
Actually, it looks like when I’m halfway through painting the base colors for a painting. I’m wondering if that’s what really happened here…they were painting the base color for a painting and halfway through said “aw, fuck it. I don’t want to do this anymore. I’ll just post it on Etsy and spend more time writing a long-winded description of this “painting” than I did actually painting the canvas”.
February 15, 2010 at 1:33 pm
Aw, I was hoping for Joseph and His Amazing Technicolour Dreamcoat!
But really – the painting looks more Psycho than West Side Story.
February 15, 2010 at 1:34 pm
When you make junk you make junk all the way from your first cigarette to your last dyin’ day.
Yea?
February 15, 2010 at 1:34 pm
It’s not very good is it.
February 15, 2010 at 1:35 pm
Handmade Acrylic Painting (Shit)
I made this painting while taking a dump, hence the name.
February 15, 2010 at 1:37 pm
oh I know what this is…it’s a piece from the set, from the dumpster.
February 15, 2010 at 1:39 pm
Apparently they were watching “A West Side Story”, which is probably different to West Side Story, so maybe this painting would make sense/be good in the context??? Uh, no.
February 15, 2010 at 1:44 pm
poor natalie wood is probably rolling in her grave!
February 15, 2010 at 1:46 pm
I think it’s upside down…………..no wait, sideways…….no wait…….sorry, I can’t figure it out. Actually, I think it’s one of those elephant paintings!
February 15, 2010 at 1:46 pm
I blew my nose while watching “Men In Black”, edited for television. (MIB- hence the name). I’ll be selling the tissue soon.
February 15, 2010 at 1:48 pm
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February 15, 2010 at 1:48 pm
Damn…I got this all over the garage….
I’ll call it…wipeing off my paint brushes…and sell it for thousands of dollars!
February 15, 2010 at 1:51 pm
whoopsie daisy.
http://photos-h.ak.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ak-snc3/hs160.snc3/18765_498313750234_862630234_11267526_3875296_n.jpg
February 15, 2010 at 1:54 pm
I like the big paint gobs running down. You must have to work real hard to get that just right…..
February 15, 2010 at 1:54 pm
Alternate title considered for this work:
Handmade painting (Menstrual Story)
February 15, 2010 at 1:55 pm
Looks more like a prop from this movie:
http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2701/4360682048_2cb3b9e640_o.jpg
February 15, 2010 at 1:57 pm
@#14 Nice!
February 15, 2010 at 1:58 pm
iscream- hee hee! i am working on a photoshop now (b/c i am unemployed and a big ol’ dork)- i’m glad we didn’t have the same idea…LOL
February 15, 2010 at 1:58 pm
How inspirational! I just dipped my shoe in acrylic paint and gave it a STOMP on a canvas, hence the name.
February 15, 2010 at 2:06 pm
I thought the blue one was for a performance by Blue Man Group. Wicked and Legally Blonde are perfect!
February 15, 2010 at 2:06 pm
@Raz, we have that in common, hehe.
I try not to over-use this movie, but this just works.
February 15, 2010 at 2:07 pm
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February 15, 2010 at 2:08 pm
Tonight, tonight
This paint is red and bright.
I’ll sell it on etsy
and get paaaaaaaid.
Toniiiight
I’ll make Ninety-five dollars,
If someone buys my story.
And doesn’t guess
That they got plaaaaayed.
So, now
Buy, buy.
So I can paint in gold
for A Chorus Liiiine!
Toniiiiiight!
February 15, 2010 at 2:11 pm
http://www.flickr.com/photos/27900808@N06/4360737324/
There’s a canvas for us,
Somewhere a canvas for us.
Paint looks like blood, huffing whippets air
Paint for us
Somewhere.
There’s a time for art,
Some day a time for snark,
A painting named West Side Story,
It ought to be renamed West Side Gory
Some day!
Somewhere.
We’ll find some new shit to laugh at,
We’ll find a way of photoshopping that damn cat
Somewhere . . .
There’s a Regretsy for us,
A time…
February 15, 2010 at 2:12 pm
#22 contd (damn I got cut off)
There’s a Regretsy for us,
A time and place for us.
Typing hands, we’re halfway there.
Leave a comment if you dare…
Somehow,
Some day,
Somewhere!
February 15, 2010 at 2:26 pm
#14 IscreamUscream :
Good one!
February 15, 2010 at 2:27 pm
Duh,
It’s from Carrie.
February 15, 2010 at 2:28 pm
no matter how i held it up to my face, i couldnt see the hidden picture.
February 15, 2010 at 2:28 pm
She gets an A for consistency and an F for creativity.
February 15, 2010 at 2:30 pm
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February 15, 2010 at 2:31 pm
I think it’s time to pick up the paint brush again. I would be embarrassed to ask $95 for a piece of crap like that. I’d be too embarrassed to even paint a piece of crap like that.
February 15, 2010 at 2:33 pm
OOOH! My bad. She only made the first painting. Helen made the rest. LMAO at myself and my stupidity, but I’m so used to seeing crap on Etsy, I just assumed……. ::::sheepishly grinning:::: Apologies to the artist, but I still give an F to the original piece for lack of creativity.
February 15, 2010 at 2:33 pm
that’s it — I’m selling my 4-year old’s art projects on etsy!
February 15, 2010 at 2:34 pm
#28, your painting might look fine in a plastic surgeon’s office….. just saying, there is a place for it. don’t be so hard on yourself.
February 15, 2010 at 2:46 pm
oh dear.
and the really sad part is that the seller has no idea how bad this is
February 15, 2010 at 2:57 pm
ah, i see our friend the thumbs-downer must be out on extended weekend pass!
::waves to thumbs-downer::
(psssst….dont forget to take your meds!)
February 15, 2010 at 3:01 pm
I did one of those 3 weeks ago. In white. And then I finished priming the 12″ wood trim, and then we painted 2 coats of gloss over it.
When a painter leaves me with something like this, it’s because the check bounced, and they stopped in the middle of the job.
February 15, 2010 at 3:06 pm
I would think this would be more appropriate for “Repo: The Genetic Opera,” you know?
February 15, 2010 at 3:12 pm
She made this painting while watching the last five minutes of West Side Story. That is about how long this would take I think.
February 15, 2010 at 3:12 pm
I guess I’ll have to rename my stuff “Alien Vs. Predator”.
February 15, 2010 at 3:14 pm
@#28 Comment Hidden…: Looks like you’re living up (or down) to your name.
February 15, 2010 at 3:14 pm
Thank God the artist clarified in the title that it was Handmade. This kind of quality and creativity can seldom be found outside of mass-produced works.
February 15, 2010 at 3:16 pm
Great film trilogy by Kristof Kieslowski, Red , White, & Blue.
Has nada to do with this colossal waste of pigment and canvas.
February 15, 2010 at 3:39 pm
It’s like looking at the Matrix.
February 15, 2010 at 3:39 pm
Initialed by me on the front.
Only initials? For $95.00 damn dollars I want the whole name of this person who has spilled paint on this board!
February 15, 2010 at 3:41 pm
Legend has it that Sun-Tzu wrote the following passage from The Art of War while taking a dump on Tiantai mountain:
On level ground
Logs and boulders
Say still;
On steep ground
They move;
Square, they halt;
Round, they roll.
Skillfully deployed soldiers
Are like round boulders
Rolling down
A mighty mountainside.
These are all matters
Of potential energy.
February 15, 2010 at 4:14 pm
I’m hoping she was watching the movie at home on TV and not in the theatre when she was slopping paint around.
February 15, 2010 at 4:31 pm
…This is fine art like that bedsheet someone visited aunt Flo on was a fashion accessory. Seriously, does this mean I can nail a used condom to a board and charge 95 bucks for it cause I was boning some girl while The Phantom Of The Opera was on?
February 15, 2010 at 4:35 pm
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February 15, 2010 at 4:43 pm
theyre PHOTOSHOPPED BY HELEN
lol
February 15, 2010 at 4:56 pm
*sigh*
That is all.
February 15, 2010 at 5:22 pm
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February 15, 2010 at 5:22 pm
I don’t know what y’all are talking about. This is *art* – more than any boring ol’ Botticelli in the Uffizi or whatever Michelangelo crapped out. It takes real talent to do whatever the hell this bullshit is.
February 15, 2010 at 5:36 pm
This would look great sitting on A table at A wedding.
February 15, 2010 at 5:45 pm
Oy vey indeed.
February 15, 2010 at 5:55 pm
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v315/EruannaTelperion/blue.jpg
Anyone who gets the referance wins a cookie.
February 15, 2010 at 6:00 pm
#55 eruanna: mad men?
February 15, 2010 at 6:09 pm
I’m so mad I’m seein’ red.
February 15, 2010 at 7:04 pm
#29 hidden due to low comment rating, you’re that 365 self-portraits chick from the Valentines list, aren’t you? Because all you ever do is talk about your own avatar. Which is cool, but
move
on.
February 15, 2010 at 7:46 pm
@#58 VEDD: I completely agree with you. What the fuck was comment #29 supposed to be? An infomercial? It might have been more effective had it been narrated by Eric Estrada or Suzanne Sommers. I really hope someone buys that thing so we don’t have to hear about it anymore.
February 15, 2010 at 8:15 pm
#58 & #59: Yes and completely. Also, I’ve got mild crushes on you both, but that’s another conversation.
#29, you got cut off before you finished (and before you got overwhelmingly thumbs-downed). I think (and hope) you were going to say, “the recycle bin” which might have merited some public approval. But I’m afraid some affected mod podge magazine cut outs on a mannequin’s head is no one else’s opinion of conversation worthy.
You might try the Etsy Promo forum for less obvious…
February 15, 2010 at 8:29 pm
#29. Hanging out with Hally McGehean much?
February 15, 2010 at 8:34 pm
I want one in HyperColor pigment.
February 15, 2010 at 9:15 pm
@#60 WBG: less obvious WHAT? Don’t leave us hanging. BTW, your work is awesome.
February 15, 2010 at 9:29 pm
@#56 Thistle :
Nope…An older movie called “Life Without Dick”….I guess its fairly obscure :/
But theres this one great scene, the main girl paints but all of her paintings are just a solid colour on canvas. And some people were looking at her “Blue” painting and being all “snobby art critiques”
“Thats a lot of blue”
“Yep…theres a lot of blue in that”
February 15, 2010 at 9:42 pm
#12 headburgler~ Awesome !
Kinda’ like a like a ‘die-orama’
February 15, 2010 at 10:07 pm
#58, 59, 60 – I’m also fairly sure that hidden is (at least) one of the perpetrators of the thumbs down plague because none of the (seemingly obligatory now) thumbs downs started appearing til their diatribe on why their avatar is FAR SUPERIOR REGRETSY BAIT than anything else on here/
February 15, 2010 at 10:17 pm
#64 life without a dick?
lol sounds like my life. only i like it that way -o..o-
^
February 15, 2010 at 11:47 pm
#66 SunshineSanctuary, could be, but the serial Red Thumber has been around for a loooong time. Comes and goes as the perpetrator gets bored or runs out of crack.
February 16, 2010 at 3:11 am
This “painting” inspired me to write a Haiku… or two
“A West Side Story”
We all think you’re full of shit
highway robbery
and one more:
Regretsy “artist”
Must use that term quite loosely
Hence. the snarkiness.
February 16, 2010 at 7:10 am
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February 16, 2010 at 9:07 am
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February 16, 2010 at 9:17 am
@#71 Hidden: I post my share of lame comments on this board, but at least I know the difference between Regretsy and Craigslist. Mmmmmmmkay?
February 16, 2010 at 9:27 am
I like to be in America. Okay by me in America. I can paint shit in America. People buy shit in America.
February 16, 2010 at 9:32 am
#63 Skully~
I apologize. I didn’t mean to leave you hanging. What got cut off was the term, “self promotion.” As in less obvious self promotion. As in (#29) submit your shit to Helen if you think it’s Regretsy-worthy, but don’t serve it up to us here in an “aww, shucks, I suck” manipulation ploy. Regretsy works so well because it’s genuine, honest, sincere. That ploy is desperate and lame, and desperate and lame draws stinks and draws flies. Not in a Regresty way.
Btw, thanks,…
February 16, 2010 at 9:34 am
Argh. I gotta get the hang on this. I’m too long winded.
Thanks, Skully, for the sweet compliment. I really appreciate it! <3
February 16, 2010 at 9:42 am
“Also available:” — very funny, H!
February 16, 2010 at 10:47 am
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February 16, 2010 at 2:18 pm
Jesus christ, go troll on friendster or something already.
February 16, 2010 at 11:02 pm
Being an artist…this piece offends me.
Actually, it looks like when I’m halfway through painting the base colors for a painting. I’m wondering if that’s what really happened here…they were painting the base color for a painting and halfway through said “aw, fuck it. I don’t want to do this anymore. I’ll just post it on Etsy and spend more time writing a long-winded description of this “painting” than I did actually painting the canvas”.
February 17, 2010 at 12:24 am
This piece left me feeling board.
February 19, 2010 at 8:48 pm
You know… I spend hours brainstorming and drawing ideas for new items… and then I see this :/
February 21, 2010 at 10:57 pm
So where’s the Avatar one? WTF biased!
October 15, 2010 at 8:34 pm
Shouldn’t the ‘Wicked’ one be green?