Have you ever heard of the famous painter of light? This man is Thomas Kinkade. Kinkade grew up in Placerville, California. Always admiring and sketching the mountains, his family knew he could draw well by the age of four; Before he was sixteen, Kinkade was under an apprenticeship of the famous artist Glen Wessels. As Kinkade grew older and finished school at the University of California at Berkeley; He and his friend, James Gurney, traveled from California to New York to sketch different areas across the United States. In 1982, he and Gurney published their first book, “The Artist Guide to Sketching”. Kinkade continued his life painting thousands of paintings. All of Kinkade’s paintings’ style is chiaroscuro; using strong contrasts of light
