Thank you so much for all the encouraging comments - your enthusiasm for this series of images is contagious and I cannot wait to show you the completed painting!That said, please save the date! My first worldwide live broadcast from my easel will take place on Saturday, February 21st at 11am PST. I will be unveiling Pinocchio Wishes Upon A Star and discussing my plans for additional images in my Disney Dreams Collection. Have a question you'd like to ask? Feel free to post it here on my blog. I will try to answer as many as possible in the broadcast.
Here are a few more details on this image: I chose to set the scene at the time of day when darkness and light vie with one another for prominence – is it sunset or sunrise? I purposely left that to the viewers imagination. I couldn’t resist adding beautiful and colorful butterflies to the painting. Anyone who knows my art expects that bursts of color will abound. The opportunity to paint such an image in partnership with the Disney organization could be called little else than a dream come true for me. I pray that this image, for you, is also a fairy tale with a happy ending. May Pinocchio Wishes Upon A Star be a dream come true for all those who chose to include it in their collection.
You can log in to the live broadcast free, online, on February 21st by using this link:
http://www.ustream.tv/channel/from-the-easel
Don't miss it!
11 comments:
Dear Thomas Kinkade,
Thank you for inspiring me to follow my own passion of becoming an artist. I just read your book entitled "The Thomas Kinkade Story" which is truly inspiring!
Sam Lea
Good Day Mr. Kinkade,
I just saw the newest Disney painting "Pinocchio Wishes Upon a Star" and fell in love. I have to say you add a new dimension and "light" to Disney products that have been missing for awhile. Probably because as we age we tend to lose that way of looking at the world as a. magical place full of excitement and dreams.
Yes, Disney and Walt Disney World are magical and his movies take visitors to wonderous places but you have captured an even more dream like and "light of life" quality to Disney World and the Disney characters.
These paintings are beyond magical! I guess to me they take me to far away places where there are no job losses, medical problems, or war. A place we all wish for no matter what age we may be.
They are certainly places where wishes and dreams do come true.
I love fairies and the "blue fairy" in the sky was a perfect way to illuminate the painting.
The butterflies always represent renewal of life and I am so happy to see them in the painting. One of the last things my mom told me before she died was that she was not afraid of dying, because we have to die to get born. At first I did not understand.
Later I saw a picture of butterfly around Easter and it struck me that as the cocoon dies it gives birth to the beautiful butterfly that is free.Which is what Easter is about. Renewal of life. Eternal life and these paintings give back that feeling of eternal youth.
This painting is a way for all of us looking on it to keep and renew our childhood dreams.
Thank you for sharing this amazing look at Pinocchio and his world through your eyes.
Christina
For the Disney series if a Cinderalla painting is done I highly suggest that no matter what the scene, some how the glass slipper should be placed in the painting. For all those slipper collectors. The slipper represents love, family, marriage and the fact one shoe can change your life.
Dear Thomas Kinkade
I have just watched your first live webcast from Denmark Europe. -Fantastic.
You share the beauty in life with all of us through your paintings. They represent hope, optimism and reassurance.
I have visited some of the Thomas Kinkade galleries in both the States, UK and Scotland.
Please consider extending your activities to continental Europe. We need your inspiring and beautiful vision.
Be well
Marianne
We missed the show yesterday. I was a day off. Is there a way to rewatch it?
We just received Pinnochio yesterday and have been looking at it ever since. It is magnificent. We are the proud owners of #5/200 in A/P of both Snow White and Pinnochio, as well as the castles.
Some years ago I went looking for a wall calendar for my home. I looked everywhere, but I couldn't find anything I liked. Then one day I came upon a beautiful calendar filled with images of the most whimsical little cottages, seaside scenes, and magical gardens filled with wonderous light - and that's when I discovered Thomas Kinkade for the very first time.
I fell instantly in love with these beautiful works of art and this gifted painter quickly became an inspiration. Not only because of the magic he created through his paintbrush, but even moreso because of the way in which he chose to use his gifts for charitable good, and touch the lives of so many with his beautiful visions. There is too little of this kind of good in the world. And this photographer began to dream of one day doing the very same thing.
Then most unexpectedly, when I went to the Thomas Kinkade website this morning to link it into my blog as a source of inspiration, I discovered this blog. And realised that I had to the chance to say what I've long wanted to, but never thought I would.
Thomas Kinkade, thank you. You are an incredible inspiration.
cheers
Tracy Edgar
Dear Mr. Kinkade,
I am a huge Thomas Kinkade fan as well as a Disney fan. I was so pleased when I found your paintings of both Disneyland and Disney World. You capture the magic that makes Disney so wonderful.
I love this Pinocchio painting and the "Snow White Discovers the Castle" painting!! Can you tell us what other iconic Disney characters will be featured in your Disney Dozen paintings?
Thank you for your inspiring work!
Hello Mr. Kinkade, my husband and I missed your livestream on February 21st and we have been unsuccessful in tracking it down. If you know of a pathway, please let us know. Joey and I have already purchased "A New Day at the Cinderella's Castle", "Snow White Discovers the Cottage", and "Pinocchio Wishes Upon A Star" and we plan on tracking down a publisher's proof 18 x 27 of the "Disneyland 50th Anniversary". We are also slotted to get all the rest of the Disney Dreams Collection! We were lucky enough to reserve our same number and proof for all of them! Thank you for that! We are begging to know which paintings are next and your webcast with ustreamtv was going to give it away. Please give us a hint.....SOME of us are Thomas Kinkade junkies!!
What a wonderful painting! I love Disney and I love your artwork... I could not ask for any better peices of art. I am currently looking into buying the snow white painting. I saw it at DisneyLand and I was breath taken!
I would really love to see a Peter Pan painting someday!
Thom were is the "W" Secret place in the Pinchoccio painting. I love it so much - I just bought my six piece! My daughter and I are going to collect all 12 in the series!
Thanks, Greg (San Diego)
Thom, I don't know if you like receiving these suggestions, but as others have posted their's I figured why not? Just thought I would throw the idea out there of Aladdin & Jasmine overlooking Agrabah. I think that would make an awesome addition to the collection as it's just a bit different than most of the other Princess movies as it has that touch of exotic and foreign flair.
As with many others, I love your Pinnochio and Snow White interpretations and have them both as well as the New Day at Cinderella's Castle. We've already placed ourselves on a notification list for all future Disney Dreams releases. Thank you so much and we're looking forward to seeing everything else that is forthcoming!
Best Regards,
Aaron Phillips
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