MASTER HIGHLIGHTER EVENTS (Free to our customers)

Each limited edition canvas is hand highlighted by a specially trained professional artist or by Thomas Kinkade himself (depending on the edition of the painting) prior to the painting being shipped to the gallery. To add to the experience of buying the artwork, our galleries host several Master Highlighting events throughout the year in which a Master Highlighter visits our galleries and enhances our customers' paintings by adding additional oil brushstrokes and texturing while our customers watch! Only 2% of Thomas Kinkade's limited edition canvases have this extra highlighting done to them. All limited edition artwork purchased on this website will receive this extra highlighting at no charge if requested by the customer.

YOU DO NOT NEED TO BE PRESENT TO HAVE YOUR CANVAS HIGHLIGHTED! Having your canvas highlighted adds an additional $250 value to your canvas and is FREE to collectors who purchase from us. If you are not in the state of Colorado, simply ship your canvas to our gallery prior to a scheduled highlighting event and leave the rest up to us. We'll even pay the shipping cost to ship it back to you. We dare you to find another gallery which will provide such service. Our galleries sponsor at least 9 highlighting events per year so if you miss one event, you can always attend another. Master Highlighting is available for limited edition Thomas Kinkade artwork only and it must have been purchased through this website or at one of our Colorado gallery locations, otherwise the cost is $250.

DATE OF NEXT MASTER HIGHLIGHTING EVENT: mid January or Early February 2012 (date not finalized yet) at our Streets of Southglenn Mall location

PAT KINKADE EVENTS (Free to our Customers)

Pat Kinkade (Thom's brother) grew up with Thom and both have an extremely close relationship. Pat will sometimes travel to Thomas Kinkade galleries, meet with collectors, and share stories of growing up with Thom. Like Thom, Pat is also a painter and he is considered the next best thing to Thomas Kinkade himself.

Therefore, since Pat Kinkade is in such high demand, he will hand highlight our customer's limited edition canvas pieces which are Renaissance (R/E) editions only, much like the Master Highlighter events (adding $300 value to the piece). However, Pat Kinkade will also draw an original pencil sketch on the reverse side of all limited edition canvas pieces purchased from either our Cherry Creek or Colorado Seasons Galleries (also adding $300 value to the piece). Our two Colorado Galleries feature a free Pat Kinkade event four times per year and canvases purchased on our website qualify as well. In other words, you do not need to be present to have your painting highlighted or sketched by Pat Kinkade.

In addition, Pat Kinkade will bring with him several Thomas Kinkade ORIGINAL paintings and hand drawn sketches which are sold at the event at a tremendous discount of around 75% off the market price. Our Galleries also sell original artwork from Pat's nineteen year old son, Zac Kinkade. Zac is Thomas Kinkade's only relative who truly has the gift of the next Kinkade great artist and he has dedicated his life in following in the footsteps of his famous uncle. Of course, having Pat Kinkade as your father and Thomas Kinkade as your mentor has allowed Zac to grow in his skills as an artist. His original artwork is stupendous and is sold at our galleries for very affordable prices (typically under $500). There is great speculation that Zac Kinkade is becoming the next great heir to Thomas Kinkade and anticipating this, many Kinkade collectors are purchasing his original artwork from our galleries before he becomes published.

DATE OF NEXT PAT KINKADE EVENT: Spring 2012 at our Southglenn location

THOMAS KINKADE TOUR

Although Thom frequently toured in the 1990s, since Thom purchased the Company in 2002, he has decided to be with his family and paint at home rather than tour. Therefore, tour dates are very rare. Currently Thomas Kinkade will only visit some of his preferred galleries and usually just over a couple weekends per year. Our galleries in Colorado are fortunate enough to be included as one of Thom's preferred galleries to visit.

Thomas Kinkade last visited us in Denver on November 20th, 2010 in which we sponsored a gathering of over 1500 of our customers who had the privilege to meet Thomas Kinkade at the luxurious club level section of Invesco Field at Mile High. In addition, we raised over $15,000 for the Tim Tebow Foundation for underprivileged children and we made lots of new friends and clients. Although Thom rarely tours and we are uncertain of his future touring plans, he assures us that Colorado will always be one of the first galleries he chooses to visit.

DATE OF THOMAS KINKADE EVENT: Thom has not announced any future tours for 2011