Dan Robbins turned you and yours into artists. By following his guide that matched numbers on a printed canvas to the corresponding colours supplied in small paint pots, you blossomed. America was getting rich, and with “the art of leisure” you could put your free time to good use. Dan Robbins became “the most exhibited artist in the world” through his Paint-by-Number concept.
Paint-by-Number reached a high point in 1956 when Thomas Edwin Stephens, Eisenhower appointment secretary, arranged a White House exhibition that came to be known as the Stephens Collection. Stephens distributed twenty Paint by Number kits to Eisenhower cabinet members and Oval Office visitors. Among those returning completed oils were FBI chief J. Edgar Hoover, special assistant to the president Nelson A. Rockefeller, former president Herbert Hoover and U.S. ambassador to the United Nations Henry Cabot Lodge.
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Comments (2)
I just don't get it.
I think he does in in that program because most of us discard MS Paint as just a cheap sketchbook pad that hasn't got nearly enough capacities to make such complicated renderings.
He shows that you actually can make difficult drawings in this simple program.
I started to use MS-Paint for simple technical drawings that don't require me to beg endlessly with my systems operator for an extra cad-program on our firm's network. He and my boss flatly refuse to buy such programs Why, they won't tell), so I am stuck on the only program available, being MS-Paint...
This guy is my Hero because he shows me that for the time being I can very well do with MS-Paint
But I don't see how it can be used for technical drawings.. there aren't even any measuring tools.
I use it for rudimentary sketches, and even that takes ages to make it look like something better than what I drew in kindergarten.