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Art Is About Capturing Attention
Thomas Kinkade
Painter
The highest use of our talents is not just self-expression or self-promotion, it is taking that talent and making it a platform to enrich the life experience of other human beings.
About Thomas
- I grew up in Placerville, California.
- For college, I went to the University of California, Berkeley, for two years before transferring to the ArtCenter College of Design in Pasadena.
- After college, I travelled with a friend across the United States—our travels brought us to New York where we landed a contract to create a sketching handbook.
- Our book “The Artist’s Guide to Sketching” gained a lot of attention and the success led to us working with Ralph Bakshi Studios, where we created the background art for the film “Fire and Ice.”
- The film gave me my career start—from then on, I’ve made a name for myself as a painter, creating original idyllic and romantic paintings.