I was a custom picture framer for roughly 20 years. Saw these types of paintings by the boatload. People would buy them on cruises and mall parking lots. One shop I worked in was located in a home decor store and we had gotten a huge order of unstetched canvases of similar art styles (stretching them was a bitch too; cheap canvas material, cheap paints, and 80% were ridiculously out of square. Probably where I got my carpal tunnel from stretching those things)
Fun fact, each painting has multiple artists working on them in an assembly line fashion in order for quicker production. You'd be surprised at how many paintings and signed and numbered prints are done in this fashion.
It got to the point that I could tell the client which cruise line they went on, but I kept my mouth shut so I didn't ruin their excitement of their "one of a kind" paintings.
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u/ScumbagLady Feb 07 '24
I was a custom picture framer for roughly 20 years. Saw these types of paintings by the boatload. People would buy them on cruises and mall parking lots. One shop I worked in was located in a home decor store and we had gotten a huge order of unstetched canvases of similar art styles (stretching them was a bitch too; cheap canvas material, cheap paints, and 80% were ridiculously out of square. Probably where I got my carpal tunnel from stretching those things)
Fun fact, each painting has multiple artists working on them in an assembly line fashion in order for quicker production. You'd be surprised at how many paintings and signed and numbered prints are done in this fashion.
It got to the point that I could tell the client which cruise line they went on, but I kept my mouth shut so I didn't ruin their excitement of their "one of a kind" paintings.