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Without this talented studio assistant, famous artist Court Painter would never complete his masterpieces

AHM is seen caught like a deer in the headlights of elusive fame.

Editors note: Copyright issues allow only one painting to be reproduced in this expose behind the studio curtain.

Many would be surprised to visit the studio of contemporary artist Court Painter and see how his art is made and who it’s made by. Here, surprisingly we will find one poorly paid studio assistant mixing raw pigments, wielding a variety of brushes and loaded palette, whirling and stabbing at the canvas in the act of completing yet another painting, happy accidents and all, awaiting the signature of  Court Painter who alone declares it worthy and saleable.

Art fabrication as with this behind the curtain expose ,can be the process of hiring cheap labour to produce large ,small and complex artworks. Cheap labour, like AHM who also serves as Court Painter’s press attache , has wide-ranging skills in fine art & forgery production and is employed by Court Painter to execute portrait commissions of celebrities and political figures.

AHM catching a lunch break in what prove to be 14 hour days in the studio

A Hardon MacKay, penniless and having migrated from a small hard scrabble, potato producing island on the east coast of the Great Dominion, found himself in a new  province where no one knew his name or sordid past. AHM ,knowing which way the winds of the art world were blowing, got a job with local art hero and soon to become an international super art star, Court Painter. So, over the past 7 years, AHM has fabricated CP’s commissions on canvas with adroitness , speed and devoid of painterly error. For one of CP’s most famous projects, a series of portraits of a well-known political family and the husband’s mistress, AHM was paid $50 US per portrait as dozens were produced and shoved out the studio door.

Court Painter seen signing an approved work with shy assistant AHM

AHM’s technical proficiency and speed as a painter were essential to the success of this series since the husband lost the presidency of his home country and was denounced by his mistress. AHM’s value to CP is perfectly captured by a statement CP made to the Inglewood Community Blog, “If I had to be doing this myself, I wouldn’t be able to live the leisurely life style I’ve become accustomed or be able to hire the shadiest accounting firms to advise on the best off shore tax havens to shelter my considerable earnings.” 

Court Painter allows one glass of wine for assistant AHM as he celebrates latest haul on the back of AHM

According to a mole at one art fabrication company who prefers to remain anonymous, contemporary artists like Court Painter have financial ruthlessness, old time shady management skills and voracious carnal appetites.  Most importantly , they have grandiose ideas and the funds to realize them. “The successful ones are scrooges with money: getting it and using it to satisfy their carnal appetites,” he said. “They’re predatory pricing types as well as artists.” In the case of Court Painter working with poorly paid studio assistants like AHM ,frees up his time to have languid leisurely liquid lunches on a daily basis, long naps and late afternoon to closing time visits to The Ship & Anchor pub where he holds…wait for it….court!

Court Painter seen counting his money in the studio reading room accompanied by AHM and unpaid studio intern

Court Painter is known as one of the most prolific users of cheap art labour. According to an article by art critic and muckraker Dinger Bell of the Calgary Sun, AHM revealed “I resented being paid 50 loonies to do a painting that would fetch $500,000, and in an act of rebellion, I inserted mini cameras in the eyes of the portraits that follow the intimate antics of the painted patrons around the room and not even Court Painter picked up on this subterfuge.” 

Ending on an upbeat note, AHM indicated he was working on an illustrated coffee table book “The Art of Compromising Positions” featuring images chosen from the treasure trove collection of celebrities and politicians in compromising positions exposed in an exciting variety of settings and flattering light conditions…covertly streamed to his computer from the all seeing mini cameras surreptitiously inserted in the eyes of the portraits.

Oh, so wicked!

Michael Avenatti, the former attorney for Stormy Daniels who was later jailed for extortion, claimed that prison guards only let him read former President Donald Trump’s Art of the Deal while in federal custody.

Court Painter has chosen to pile on Mr. Avenatti's  grief by publishing the many commissioned images that Mr. Avenatti refused to pay for in spite of numerous invoices demanding payment and an introduction to Ms. Daniels.

Avenatti made the allegation in a new filing with the Federal Bureau of Prisons (BOP), claiming he was mistreated while in custody as punishment for his criticisms of Trump and former Attorney General William Barr.

In July 2021, the lawyer was sentenced to 30 months in prison for attempting to extort Nike for $25 million.

Stormy Daniels, the client he coattailed for his fame before being jailed, had refused to provide a character witness statement however was caught on a hot mike describing him as an egotistical scum bag of a grifter !(curses edited)

Avenatti is now seeking $94 million from the United States, or $1 million for each day he claims he was held in solitary confinement.

The suit alleges that he was only allowed access to Trump’s Art of the Deal during his time in jail.

“A federal district court judge has found that I was held under terrible conditions and that it was hard to believe it occurred in the United States of America,” Avenatti stated. “I agree and I look forward to holding Trump and Barr accountable for what they did to me in the interest of politics and revenge.”

Want to know how to save nature? Ask Indigenous scientists.

• https://www.vox.com/down-to-earth/22849782/nature-conservation-indigenous-science-jessica-hernandez?

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Nature conservation needs a transformation, according to a new book by environmental scientist . Jessica Hernandez, a Maya Ch’orti and Binnizá-Zapotec Indigenous environmental scientist

“Nature protects us as long as we protect nature,” writes Hernandez, who is now a 31-year-old postdoctoral research fellow at the University of Washington. “Ancestral knowledge has been sustained in our communities,” she added in an interview. “It’s a valid form of knowledge that isn’t necessarily validated through the Western ways, like publications and books.” This kind of knowledge forms the basis of Indigenous science, Hernandez says, that is crucial to caring for the Earth.

Indigenous peoples and local communities steward far more of the planet than protected areas like national parks, and around 80 percent of the diversity of species known to be living on Earth are found on lands owned or managed by these groups. That’s despite centuries of genocide, racism, and what Hernandez and other academics and activists refer to as settler colonialism — the intentional displacement and erasure of Indigenous peoples by outsiders.

“Conservation continues to teach scientists that scientific knowledge is more valuable than Indigenous knowledge,” Hernandez writes. This attitude ignores a staggering variety of insights in Indigenous communities, from medicinal knowledge of plants and animals in the Amazon to coral reef conservation in Australia to the prescribed burning practices in the West.

The Local Bobblehead Hall of the Infamous introduces Court Painter bobbleheads to meet the demand of his cult following

Two versions of the bobblehead are available with one sporting a short beard and the other sporting a long beard with crumbs.

Presently Court Painter has many official self portraits and as his  leadership in the arts becomes more exalted, he’ll get a statue on a hill or in a valley so lone…although he admits to wanting an airport landing strip named after him.

The Local Bobblehead Hall of the Infamous is conveniently located in Inglewood next to Court Painter’s studio. It unveiled two new Court Painter bobbleheads , in an attempt to meet the demand of discerning collectors for Court Painter memorabilia.

The bobbleheads are individually numbered, up to 2,000,000, and can only be bought directly from the Hall of the Infamous and Court Painter’s studio. They are not intended for children or high tech executives …only sophisticated art patrons and deep pocket influencers may apply.

Court Painter’s Press Attache A Hardon MacKay went on to explain the inexplicable.

‘We get requests from all over the place, from the U.S., Canada, internationally, for Court Painter bobbleheads . He has a major cult following and bobbleheads make a perfect way for people to worship their favourite art celebrity and celebrate his unique phrenology.

To make the bobbleheads reflect as accurately as possible Court Painter’s phrenologic charisma, we source hand tinted pictures, as many pictures as we can find, which is easy for Court Painter much like other famous celebrities. They are then hand sculpted out of clay by unpaid studio interns. The process takes some time and require back and forth adjustments until it looks just like Court Painter and then it’s painted and  enhanced around the eyes with individual eye lashes  and sparkle dust to bring out the stunning pale blue of the windows of his soul. During that process, we do two versions: a short beard and a long beard with crumbs to reflect the indecisive nature of Court Painter throughout his artistic career. We decided to offer two so people can get their favourite or both, double bobbies we call them!

With many many other artists,  their popularity can be a rollercoaster usually going down. Not with Court Painter! We are introducing the bobbleheads at the peak of Court Painter’s popularity and are producing a big bunch in anticipation of the growing scale of his cult following and are pleased as punch to have gotten more into the cult-adjacent mainstream market …with bobbleheads for the ages.

We get a lot of requests from people who just think he’s cute and they like him for that reason. But also people to numerous to mention, adore him as an relatable art personality not like those other stuck up artistes who shall remain beardless and can paint only under north light.’

SOURCE: Angus Reid Institute

US Rep Jamie Raskin

Excerpted from New Republic article: Jamie Raskin, Democracy’s Defender

Michael Tomasky/January 3, 2022

These next three years will test our democracy in ways it hasn’t been tested since the 1860s, or maybe ever. The scenario is pretty straightforward. The Republicans retake the House in the midterms. Immediately, any chance of Biden passing meaningful legislation is dead, but that’s the least of it. The GOP will launch hearing after hearing, issue subpoena after subpoena; they will find some flimsy rationale on which to impeach Biden, and they will stretch it out as long as possible. Trump will run—as Raskin put it, “for psychological, political, and financial reasons”—and he will be the GOP nominee, Raskin has little doubt. Assuming Biden seeks reelection, the election will probably be close, because elections just are these days. If Biden wins by a matter of several thousand votes in a few states, as he did in 2020, the Trump machinery will kick into gear to steal the election. Republican election commissioners and state legislators and even some governors will put forward pro-Trump electors. The House of Representatives will not vote to certify Biden’s win in January 2025, which will toss the election to the House, which will make Trump president. (When a presidential election gets thrown to the House, under the Twelfth Amendment, the vote is by state delegation, so North Dakota has the same voting power as California; Republicans now control, and will likely in 2025 still control, a majority of state delegations, and Liz Cheney will probably be gone, meaning that Wyoming will go pro-Trump.) For the second time in the history of the United States, the other time being 1824, Congress will have installed as the president a candidate who did not win a plurality of votes in either the Electoral College or the popular vote.

“Donald Trump has now converted every formerly ministerial step of the process into a moment for partisan rumble and contest,” Raskin told me. “So when we’re talking about the certification of the state popular vote, the governors’ certification of the electors, the electors meeting, and then the January 6th joint session receipt of the electors … all these phases of the process have now been turned into yet another opportunity for partisan combat.” There is no question in Raskin’s mind that this is what Trump and his supporters will try to do.

Questions raised over secrecy around Queen’s private portrait sitting with artist from the colonies 

The Queen is undertaking “light duties” after an artistic visit for “preliminary sketches followed by full colour rendering” as Buckingham Palace faced questions over its handling of news of her evening portrait sitting with Court Painter ,the Great Dominion’s preeminent portrait painter of pulchritude and pomp.. The 95-year-old monarch is said be resting at Windsor Castle after undergoing the rigorous sitting , having been advised by doctors to rest for a few days and cancelled a two-day binge of watching Coronation Street.

Boris Johnson commented on the Queen’s condition during a visit to a local disco in west London on Friday: “I think everybody sends Her Majesty our very, very best wishes after an exhausting painting session with the notoriously temperamental Court Painter. “But I’m given to understand that actually Her Majesty is characteristically back at her desk at Windsor as we speak. But we send her every possible good wish.We love you mum!”

That Buckingham Palace confirmed the latest visit and portrait sitting only once the Sun newspaper ran it as a front page exclusive triggering a debate over how the nation learned of it and raising questions over palace transparency when it comes to dealing with visits by colonial celebrity portraitists.

Prince Andrew was seen viewing the portrait and sweating profusely!

Court Painter could not be reached for comment as he was wandering aimlessly about the colonies seeking new commissions.

UPDATE from post of January 4,2022

Court Painter found a family in January of 2022 that was willing to pose for this grifter series.

As fate would have it, the exact same family is in the news today with some exciting news! Unfortunately the son in law will have to wait for his comeuppance.

Court Painter now hopes to donate the series to the 45th Presidential Library

Broken news on September 21/22

NEW YORK (AP) — New York’s attorney general sued former President Donald Trump and his company for fraud on Wednesday, alleging they padded his net worth by billions of dollars by lying about the value of prized assets including golf courses, hotels and his homes at Trump Tower and Mar-a-Lago.

Attorney General Letitia James dubbed it: “The art of the steal.”

James’ lawsuit, filed in state court in New York, is the culmination of a three-year civil investigation of Trump and the Trump Organization. Trump’s three eldest children, Donald Jr., Ivanka and Eric Trump, were also named as defendants, along with two longtime company executives, Allen Weisselberg and Jeffrey McConney.

• https://www.theglobeandmail.com/opinion/article-the-american-polity-is-cracked-and-might-collapse-canada-must-prepare/?

The American polity is cracked, and might collapse. Canada must prepare

The U.S. is becoming increasingly ungovernable, and some experts believe it could descend into civil war. What should Canada do then?

THOMAS HOMER-DIXON SPECIAL TO THE GLOBE AND MAIL December 31/21

EXCERPTED FROM ARTICLE:

A terrible storm is coming from the south, and Canada is woefully unprepared. Over the past year we’ve turned our attention inward, distracted by the challenges of COVID-19, reconciliation, and the accelerating effects of climate change. But now we must focus on the urgent problem of what to do about the likely unravelling of democracy in the United States.

We need to start by fully recognizing the magnitude of the danger. If Mr. Trump is re-elected, even under the more-optimistic scenarios the economic and political risks to our country will be innumerable. Driven by aggressive, reactive nationalism, Mr. Trump “could isolate Canada continentally,” as one of my interlocutors put it euphemistically.

Under the less-optimistic scenarios, the risks to our country in their cumulative effect could easily be existential, far greater than any in our federation’s history. What happens, for instance, if high-profile political refugees fleeing persecution arrive in our country, and the U.S. regime demands them back. Do we comply?

In this context, it’s worth noting the words of Dmitry Muratov, the courageous Russian journalist who remains one of the few independent voices standing up to Mr. Putin and who just received the Nobel Prize for Peace. At a news conference after the awards ceremony in Oslo, as Russian troops and armour were massing on Ukraine’s borders, Mr. Muratov spoke of the iron link between authoritarianism and war. “Disbelief in democracy means that the countries that have abandoned it will get a dictator,” he said. “And where there is a dictatorship, there is a war. If we refuse democracy, we agree to war.”

Canada is not powerless in the face of these forces, at least not yet. Among other things, over three-quarters of a million Canadian emigrants live in the United States – many highly placed and influential – and together they’re a mass of people who could appreciably tilt the outcome of coming elections and the broader dynamics of the country’s political process.

But here’s my key recommendation: The Prime Minister should immediately convene a standing, non-partisan Parliamentary committee with representatives from the five sitting parties, all with full security clearances. It should be understood that this committee will continue to operate in coming years, regardless of changes in federal government. It should receive regular intelligence analyses and briefings by Canadian experts on political and social developments in the United States and their implications for democratic failure there. And it should be charged with providing the federal government with continuing, specific guidance as to how to prepare for and respond to that failure, should it occur.

If hope is to be a motivator and not a crutch, it needs to be honest and not false. It needs to be anchored in a realistic, evidence-based understanding of the dangers we face and a clear vision of how to get past those dangers to a good future. Canada is itself flawed, but it’s still one of the most remarkably just and prosperous societies in human history. It must rise to this challenge.

Reflecting the spirit of our times Court Painter has sensitively recycled the 2021 New Years Greetings to reflect greetings for 2022. You’re Welcome!

Press Attache & Court Painter celebrate another banner year of financial success!