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Post #333605 by MakeDaMug on Wed, Sep 19, 2007 10:24 PM

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On 2007-09-19 08:33, snackbar wrote:

On 2007-09-18 17:27, Tipsy McStagger wrote:
.....but at some point soon, he's gonna have to reinvent himself again.....aside from the fact that he is probably getting bored banging out artwork in his same style over and over, his general fan base may eventually get tired of it perhaps and look to other artists work.....time to kick it up a notch to keep those "dead guy" paychecks comin' in.......

I agree, there's no evolution in his work. It's good, but it's the same adjacent color Arne Jacobsen chair over and over again.
If I had a lot of money to spend on art, I'd rather go for something by Tim Biskup.
Or maybe Bob Ross.

True but so is also the same for Andy Warhol... anybody got a mansion to trade for a Warhol? Shag... singularly & inarguably the best for his collected genre/style in our generation. Try to get his earlier works where he painted outside of his desired style (which he originally started because he painted them for himself - for his own pleasure). Kidz got skills.