Apparently, there are some black velvet paintings that even Tijuana black velvet painters consider “tasteless.” While “Professional Mexican Velvet Elvis Artist from Tijuana” L. Zamora usually creates high-class renditions of Bob Marley, tigers and Elvis, he also has a stash of “less religiously-themed works” featuring nas-tay sexual acts and an apparently controversial (due to its non-piety) image of Lucifer on the pot, currently for sale on eBay.
The listing describes it as “the tackiest Tijuana Black Velvet of them all, an original hand-painted black velvet painting of Satan, The Father of Lies, using the facilities, aka ‘The Devil on the Can On Black Velvet.’” It also takes care to make sure no one mixes up this black velvet painting artist with those who sold black velvet portraits of various Republican politicians at the 1996 Republican National Convention.
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