Ebay ACEO Scam---How to spot fake art

[AnnihilatingAngel]

Picasso:

"Today, as you know, I am famous, I am rich. But when I am alone with myself, I haven't the courage to consider myself an artist in the ancient sense of the word. Great painters are people like Giotto, Titian, Rembrandt, Goya. I am only a public entertainer who has understood the times and has exploited as best he could the imbecility, the vanity and the greed of his contemporaries. Mine is a bitter confession, more painful than might seem, but it has the merit of being sincere."

[TheArtPolice]

we hear David Coalburn is the king this area of art notalentness. eBay My World: alabama_artist

[AnnRan]

It's not just "water paintings" either. I've seen photos taken from the internet, manipulated in Photoshop to look like pencil drawings and then the "artist" sells "prints of pencil drawings". "Oh they look so real" - yeah, 'cause they're a converted photo!

Oil/Acrylic paintings too. Print a photo on canvas, put some paint on top and it's sold as an original painting.

If an artist discloses the process - no problem. But these frauds make you think you're getting something you're not!

[binghambest]

Marykay *tinkerlove* makes up false stories about finding dogs and cats abandoned on the road in a sad attempt to play on people's emotions and as a result, get higher bids for her fraudulent ACEO paintings on Ebay. She even claimed that one of them was her own dear cat that died 35 years ago but the exact photo was found online belonging to someone else! Sounds like we have a pathological liar here.

[geerilli]

To be more specific: "please google WATERCOLOR art fraud on eBay"...you'll be unpleasantly amazed and (hopefully) terribly dismayed at how easy it is to accomplish, just as this video demonstrates...once you know what to look for, you'll be better equipped to protect yourself from ebay crook "artists" such as tinkerlove, aka *mylittleart*, coachkwl or bitzypaintings...And don't get fooled by the pity ploys or the religious jargon either!!

[geerilli]

Thanks for educating folks, I know of tinkerloves "art", she has another ID too, mylittlefart or something like that...this work looks a lot like her absurd attempts...the only authentic thing about her work is the fraud!!! people need to google art fraud on ebay and STOP supporting scam artists!!!!!

[AnnRan]

Thank you, thank you, thank you for posting this! People need to be educated about what they're buying. It annoys me no end to see positive, glowing feedback about crappy fraudulent art.

[GotMyMFA]

Hey, you need to post this as a video response to Tinkerlove13, the queen of eBay art fraud.

[zeezeetopps]

That's a real eye-opener! There is at least one cat artist on Ebay whose work looks just like this. Thanks for sharing.