If it was going really badly, put a bandage on the dog's paw. This is the basic principle behind Victim Art. Especially the kind of people who hang around tattoo parlors. In my lifetime, Kitsch has progressed from the cynical sentimentality of Maxfield Parrish calendars to the sentimental cynicism of Batman movies. In America, the only truly popular art form is the movies.
Most people consider painting a hobby and literature, schoolwork.
But any celebrity can be a Renaissance Man. The great number of entertainers turned painters testifies to this. Look at Tony Curtis, Tony Bennet, Anthony Quinn, Billy Dee Williams, Red Skelton, Prince, Ron Wood and Frank Sinatra. I read an interview with Sylvester Stallone, in which he talked about his graffiti paintings. I confess that after years of struggling with drawing and color, that was a load off my mind.