"Painter of Light" Thomas Kinkade, widely adored and just as widely derided for his sickly-sweet paintings of clichés (suggesting there are two Americas aesthetically as well), has had his fair share of mishaps and misadventures in 2010. Now, capping off the year, Kinkade is set to serve time in jail for his June arrest for drunk-driving — a crime the variously-bearded artist committed after his production company filed for bankruptcy, leaving in its wake a trail of furious, fraud-alleging investors.

In a Monterey County court, the artist switched hisplea of "not guilty" to "no contest," earning 10 days behind bars for his inebriated driving outside Carmel, California, over the summer, MSNBC reports. According to prosecutors, the 52-year-old artist's blood-alcohol level had been more than double the legal limit. Kinkade, who did not attend his hearing, has also been ordered to attend a DUI offender program for nine months, submit to five years of informal court probation, and pay a fine of $1,846.

While he's never landed in the clink before, debauched naughtiness is nothing new for the artist: a 2006 Los Angeles Times article describes "incidents in which an allegedly drunken Kinkade heckled illusionists Siegfried and Roy; cursed a former employee's wife who came to his side when he fell off a barstool; fondled a startled woman's breasts at a signing party; and urinated on a Winnie the Pooh figure at the Disneyland Hotel in Anaheim." During that last act of indecency, the artist reported exclaimed the immortal lines, "This one's for you, Walt."