What, no flesh color?

March 1, 2007 4:37 PM

Don Marco, The Master Crayon Artist.
posted by Wet Spot (16 comments total)

Wow, utter crap. It's as if Thomas Kincade became confined to a high chair and was forced to copy postcards rather than paint romantic landscapes.

Jack of no trade, master of none too. FFS.
posted by fire&wings at 4:50 PM on March 1, 2007

You know what's another nice medium?
posted by Wolfdog at 4:58 PM on March 1, 2007

Why oh why isn't Burt Reynolds for sale?
posted by sportbucket at 5:04 PM on March 1, 2007

That's with crayons? Wow.
posted by DU at 5:07 PM on March 1, 2007

Does this differ from art using pastels?

(And why does this remind me of another crayon site?)
posted by zennie at 5:27 PM on March 1, 2007

If you want to see what pastels can do, check out this guy. (I've got a print of this on my wall, but only to remind me to go up to Pasadena to look at the original periodically -- you can't see the texture in the print, which blows.)
posted by Methylviolet at 5:53 PM on March 1, 2007

including commissions from Burt Reynolds and a one-man show at his Dinner Theater

Only Burt would own a Dinner Theater that has its walls covered with crayon drawings.


My next road trip is definitely involving Southern Florida.
posted by Count at 6:08 PM on March 1, 2007

Am I supposed to find this drivel impressive because of the medium?

I suppose one might argue that, in choosing to depict a child straining out a shit in a field of flowers and deliberately drawing the eye toward a cowboy's cock in a glibly derivative style, Mr. Marco is subtly undermining the colloquial understanding of the term 'kitsch'. But I wouldn't. Cack is cack, crayon or not.
posted by jack_mo at 6:13 PM on March 1, 2007 [1 favorite]

Burt Reynolds owns a Dinner Theater?

I . . . that sounds cool.
posted by nola at 6:23 PM on March 1, 2007

That shit would look awesome airbrushed onto the side of a van.
posted by The Straightener at 7:27 PM on March 1, 2007

These look like what you'd find in the same pile of prints they sell to niave freshmen at every single college campus on moving day.

You find the same prints wadded up in garbage bins throughout the year.

I've never understood the desire to portray crap in different media; its still crap, right?
posted by mr_book at 7:35 PM on March 1, 2007

Yes, but it is crayon crap! Nice find.
posted by R. Mutt at 7:50 PM on March 1, 2007

MetaFilter: You find the same prints wadded up in garbage bins throughout the year.
posted by pruner at 7:57 PM on March 1, 2007

That's cool that he did all that in Crayon. Is it original? No, but he enjoys doing it. And somewhere out there is someone who enjoys looking at it. Displayed, possibly - just possibly - on a wood-paneled wall between a driftwood clock and a miniature of Elvis as an angel.
posted by katillathehun at 8:20 PM on March 1, 2007

Wow. He really knows how to stay inside the lines.
posted by Dave Faris at 9:30 PM on March 1, 2007 [1 favorite]

Dave Faris defines "damned by faint praise".
posted by Cranberry at 11:33 PM on March 1, 2007