Monty by Jim Meddick for May 07, 2019

Ya gotta work your way up to the Jackson Pollock, Monty.

Monty, you better try it with crayons.

He should’ve started with Yves Klein.

He’s gotta get those Rothko colors juuust right.

Had to look that up. He couldn’t even stay in the lines.

My art lessons were based on Happy accidents and happy little trees.

Next, give him a 5-color version with no two areas of the same color bordering each other.

And that’s why modern art is so hard to authenticate. If you have a charismatic personality and a drop of talent you too can be a successful modern artist.

Doesn’t seem to match the finished photo on the back…

Leave it as is and say it’s Warhol.

Only nuts like Monte “appreciate” Rothko’s work, and that ONLY when they were off their meds.

MST3K did it first. :) https://youtu.be/R_1viOcwlSY?t=320

That is Lesson One, Monty. It gets harder as you continue with your lessons! Just keep on painting by numbers! Soon enough, you’ll develop into a totally untalented non-artist painter….

My eyes are going…what are the other two paintings on the box, other than the famous stern farmers and the Warhol?

Interesting that TWO comics in my feed yesterday featured “paint by numbers” gags — making essentially the same joke on this fairly obscure topic but in very different (but both clever) ways. https://www.gocomics.com/wrong-hands/2019/05/07