Portrait Painting as advertised on TV...$100 a portrait.

[NoSeRider]

http://www.everlyoriginals.tv/

How you think he do that?

[Seedling]

Well. . . if he is fast, it's possible that he could do one of these a day. But even if he doesn't take weekends off, that's still not the best ever income. That suggests that he is using some other means to pump out lots of these in a hurry. They might be prints with some pigment smeared on top. Or maybe he is outsourcing to a workshop in China. In other words, he is running a scam. Anyone feel like calling the Better Business Bureau?

[Elwell]

http://www.everlyoriginals.com/portfolio.php
Photoshop+Painter+canvas printer+an army of Kinkaid-style "highlighters"=sit back and collect the $.

[asoir]

"Everly’s realistic style is reminiscent of those found in world class museums."
Funny guy

[mwillustration]

they look like photoshop or some kind of third party plug-in filters to me.
or maybe quick cloned painter images using impasto effect.

either way, none of them are good, imo.

[glikster]

at least this guy manages to get them to look good.
Art History Brush and Filters...
Microsoft's Impressionist filter is actually very impressive.
http://www.trimoon.com/

[Aether]

Hahahah what a hilarious scam.

[poise]

yikes! The picture of the girl with the dog is what got me, haha! why?
http://www.everlyoriginals.com/sample.php?sample_num=25
and.."Everly likes to paint every hair"
man-o-man so shameful.

[Flake]

Today William Everly is America's number one portrait artist.

..............

[Elwell]

yikes! The picture of the girl with the dog is what got me, haha! why?

"You can't imagine my joy!"
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Oh, I can imagine it, lady, but it's making me kind of ill...

[poise]

haha! oy!

[Prometheus|ANJ]

That position must be straining on her Triceps Brachii, or she has a tumor.

[Dile_]

I like these a lot : http://www.everlyoriginals.com/testimonies.php lol
and i've never seen someone paint like this in a traditional way http://www.everlyoriginals.com/sample.php?sample_num=1
I am sooo inspired now.... yeah I better set up my own Site and learn how to trace photos in Painter :)

~Dile

[magicgoo]

OMG, these are horrible! That dalmation looks 3-D around the edges. Tristan has the formula nailed. Blah. Scammers like this need to be exposed.

[Elwell]

Look, you can apply for a job as a "studio apprentice!"
http://www.everlyoriginals.com/position.htm
Where's my resume, this looks like the opportunity of a lifetime!

[Jens]

his palette is awesome, yellow, blue and green will do just about anything!

http://www.everlyoriginals.com/Studio.GIF

[asoir]

what's next? cutouts? ;)

100$ please!

[A.Cerasoli]

You get what you pay for. :bashful:

[Donna]

Excuse me while I LOL :D

[0kelvin]

Oh jeez.

At the very least he could colour correct the photos before "painting" them.



0kelvin

[invinciblewombat]

they were selling these in the sam's club by my home, you gave them your digital photos and they mailed you the portrait. not sure if it was the same guy but they had some sample "oil paintings" there which was very clearly a filtered photo printed onto canvas.

[bluefruitbowl]

You should know that when you voluntarily disclose personal information on the Everly Originals, that information can be collected and used by others and may result in unsolicited messages from other people.

.....
I feel really bad for the people buying this crap. Bad photoshop filtering and spam. Glorious.

[Alexandr Pascenko]

kill them!

[That fat kid]

Lame.

It comes down to the fact that they teach art once a week and math 5 times a week in grade school. Could you balance your checkbook if you only had math once a week?

[Justin.]

They could teach art as much as they want... but judging by the way it's taught it wouldn't do much good anyways.

[That fat kid]

I'm about to stick my foot in my mouth and bite down hard, but I don't care....

Hey Justin, how many people do you know who can't even add without a calculator? We have big problems here, and the quality and quantity of our education isn't the only deciding factor of what tomorrow is going to bring. Another problem that fuels crap like this portrait is that parents sometimes nurture ignorant and downright stupid behavior, without ever meaning to.

The fact that people don't recognize good art is because they don't know any better, and its the parents fault, and the educational systems fault. They make us read certain literature, but they never sit us down and say, these are why we have the kind of art we have today, from the cave paintings, to dadaism, to modernism, to current contemporary art. Its no wonder people give up when Marcel Duchamp told them that the urinal was art, they had no frame of reference.

Anyhow, I feel better. I don't know if I'm right, but I'm willing to get shit on for it.

~A

[seth1]

Dude... School is a joke. Half the time they told me I was going to fail in life or some one else there never constructive and there allways doing something else besides helping....


Seth

[NoSeRider]

I don't know if I'm right, but I'm willing to get shit on for it.


Never stopped me.

Think for yourself, people are sheep....people buying those portraits prove that.

Dance Monkeys, Dance! (http://thatvideosite.voxcdn.com/core/2808/dance_monkeys_dance.wmv)

[Carnifex]

dude they offer this thing at a local printshop and it looks better there.
this is so ridiculous it hurts. first from laughing,then from realizing people can be as stupid as to buy this shit.

[Aether]

"The fault is not in the person selling, but in the one buying"

[blakboks]

I don't recall exactly where, but I'm 90% sure I've seen this photo somewhere else before: http://www.everlyoriginals.com/sample.php?sample_num=24

If you look at the name tag (sorry to any military people if you have a different name for it), it doesn't even look like Hamilton, and I'm pretty sure they put your last name on it in the military, not your first like they do at Wal-Mart.

[YVerloc]

haha! It looks like he he tried to add one of his portraits to Wikipedia's article on Portraiture. What vanity!

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Calton/Userfied_pages

[Undertow]

I don't recall exactly where, but I'm 90% sure I've seen this photo somewhere else before: http://www.everlyoriginals.com/sample.php?sample_num=24

If you look at the name tag (sorry to any military people if you have a different name for it), it doesn't even look like Hamilton, and I'm pretty sure they put your last name on it in the military, not your first like they do at Wal-Mart.
You're right, name tags/tapes all use your last name. He has no rank on his uniform, ribbons, whatever.. it could also be a boot camp photo and the parents could be in laws.

[stoph]

seriously.. anyone feeling mean enough to expose this guy? :P

[JustinBeckett]

wtf...you can tell instantly there filtered...I hate people like that, it makes us artists look bad.

[2100]

Look, you can apply for a job as a "studio apprentice!"
http://www.everlyoriginals.com/position.htm
Where's my resume, this looks like the opportunity of a lifetime!

Say what you will, but I'm going to apply and get a piece of the scamaction! I think anybody making $100 for 2 minutes of work is a genius~

[shrub]

http://www.everlyoriginals.com/sample.php?sample_num=1
looks like an overuse of painter's "apply surface texture"

[Qitsune]

They have dealerships available and their dealership in Ontario is SuperPet. Does anything sound more like fine art to you?

[Mr. Visions]

That's just gross.

[Blue]

http://www.everlyoriginals.com/portfolio.php
Photoshop+Painter+canvas printer+an army of Kinkaid-style "highlighters"=sit back and collect the $.
beat me to it. I see this garbage in the mall, just prints on canvas paper. I don't know whats more insulting, when i see it sell for pennies, or when people try to sell it for the same price as a genuine painting.

[dogfood]

Our generation's "Clown on velvet".

Or "Elephant dung smeared just so" (but using Labrador feces instead).

[YVerloc]

Check out the 'terms and conditions' section of his site. There, you'll find this little legalese gem, which I'm sure is just regular boilerplate but a propos nonetheless:

(B) DISCLAIMER OF ACCURACY.THE EVERLY ORIGINALS LLC DOES NOT REPRESENT OR WARRANT THAT THE INFORMATION ACCESSIBLE VIA THIS SITE IS ACCURATE, COMPLETE OR CURRENT.

No shiat sherlock!

I guess it's an escape clause WRT the fraudulent claims about the 'hand paintedness' of the 100 buck paintings.

[Matthew Campbell]

Ugh... someone should break his arms and legs. Although part of me feels contempt for the people that buy these things, I feel more pity for them than anything else. This scam is like snatching the handbag of a 90 year old.