Caveat Emptor

reading your book, caveat and tour it wasn't super surprising that you kind of started off as a student who didn't really care about school daydream to lot.

and kind of half jokingly said read the story and maybe you could do the same thing. Maybe you could make some fakes and sell them because Tom noted that my style of painting had the stamp of the old masters in all the technique that I incorporated and everything I did.

the book went into the basic principles of how he made forgery.

So it was very basic. Again, I guess in the brishness of youth I followed the instructions that I in the book and I made my first fake.

the book title is caveat emtor grace idol for somebody who wrote a book about forgery and selling forgeries links to that will be in the show notes

reading your book, caveat and tour it wasn't super surprising that you kind of started off as a student who didn't really care about school daydream to lot.

It recounted the history of a famous art forgery named Van Migrin who worked in the 1940s and he was very successfully paint.

He created Dutch masters cracked them, aged them and he sold them and made a lot of money for himself.

Tom gave me this book and kind of half jokingly said read the story and maybe you could do the same thing.

the book went into the basic principles of how he made forgery.

reading your book, caveat and tour it wasn't super surprising that you kind of started off as a student who didn't really care about school daydream to lot.

Tom gave me this book and kind of half jokingly said read the story and maybe you could do the same thing. Maybe you could make some fakes and sell them because Tom noted that my style of painting had the stamp of the old masters in all the technique that I incorporated and everything I did.

the book went into the basic principles of how he made forgery.

the fake has to be above all logical and what I used to do was when I targeted a particular artist for my work I did a lot of research I spent a lot of money on books on that particular artist I would cut out every print that was significant to my work out of the book and throw the book away I got large sheets of foam board and I created what I called a visual flow chart of the artist's work so I could see the evolution of his work in one glance and I would look for an area in that evolution where I could create another painting that would be on that same wavelength that would have the same characteristics so that an expert could look at it and logically place that painting in a certain time and place in the artist's work and that takes a lot of research and a lot of contemplation and study that's what success is all about I always said that if you want a fooling expert you have to have all the knowledge that the expert has and more to be able to make a high-class fake and sell it and that's what I did

the book title is caveat emtor grace idol for somebody who wrote a book about forgery and selling forgeries links to that will be in the show notes there's also worksheets for each episode including this once you can review what you've learned here from Ken perennie