Summertime Resort
By using the Girrard brush name, Thomas Kinkade achieved absolute artistic freedom. This freedom led to a joyful experimentation that resulted in numerous...
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Robert Girrard
Afternoon at Argenteuil
By using the Girrard brush name, Thomas Kinkade achieved absolute artistic freedom. This freedom led to a joyful experimentation that resulted in numerous...
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Sunday Stroll
With its grandiose buildings, sail boats floating aimlessly, and strollers meandering the bank, the river Seine always makes me want to linger for...
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Morning on the Boulevard
The City of Lights inspires many memories for me, both as an artist and as a romantic. Wandering the city of Paris I...
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Boardwalk Flowers
I must admit to being a full-time romantic who will always have a deep and abiding affection for France, a country that touches...
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Blue Boulevard
Impressionist masters like Monet and Pisarro recognized the emotional resonance of color. The subtlest variation in background color can uplift, inspire, or intrigue...
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The River Seine
Impressionism has always seemed to me a most romantic painting style — so emotionally charged, so free. When I first put on my...
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The Cottage
The Girrard era garden scenes created under the Kinkade name moved noticeable in the direction of domesticity. Mind you, these were neither planted...
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Sunlit Garden
On my first visit to the continent, I found myself fascinated by the works of the Impressionist painters, which appear in such abundance...
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