Forrest,
Quite obviously I was commenting on Voytek's accurate opinion of Hartough, but since we are being so brutally honest here..... (Hurrumph, Hurrumph) Dan Kelly's contribution of suggesting similarities between her and Thomas Kincade (and even in the business sense) it sounds as if she could be making millions doing lithographs by the thousands and selling them on The Home Shopping Network.
What ART!
Meanwhile, I know of an artist in Culver City who is literally putting his heart and soul into each and every painting and because it doesn't have the
realism which actually makes people have to think......and look, God forbid if people actually had to understand what art was really about. Hartough's paintings just simply stroke the heart strings in what quick passing by! "Boy that's nice!" and 30 seconds later you've forgotten you even came across it.
Meanwhile, I keep thinking of how Mike Miller has captured the sand in his art of Sand Hills. His deft touch of a violent sky in his #10th at Winged Foot. The raw sandy barrens of a new born Cypress Point Club.
And frankly, Hartough's illustrations are just like a Fazio course. All dressed-up with no place to go/It'll do for now but don't think of it as anything that is going to be ground-breaking. At least in the realm of GREATNESS vs. mediocrity.
Speaking of which, where was my Xmas card this year?