Advocate Of Messy Creativity Gifts

"Have some respect for my learning style."

'It's called 'Oh Bugger It!' if you must know!'

"Good" "Bad" "Work on it" "Keep working - maybe it's not as bad as you think it is" "Put it to a committee" "Give up" "Make it worse" "Make it better" "Still a bad idea" "Overthink it" "Throw yourself into a pit of wild badgers" "Throw it away" "Call it done" "Sigh."

'No. The television screen hasn't gone red - You've got tomato ketchup all over your glasses!'

'Hey! What's the big idea!?!'

'Look, Dad, I made a pair of boots out of your chest waders.'

"I made the mistake of telling him that the world is his canvas."

'You could say this is how my husband and I support local arts.'

Jackson Pollock as a child

"Jackson Pollock's diaper"

Instant art

"Did we just paint the house or did it just paint us?!"

"And I suppose cleaning up after yourself just once would in some way stifle your precious creativity."

"Perhaps it was wrong to say 'May our company become a home to you'..."

'You're not creating another thing till you've tidied your room!'

Non Drip Paint

A Cartoonist's and a Sculptor's File Cabinets.

Falling for art

Paint fight art!

'How did the 'creative way of thinking' course go?'

"Too busy."

"Instead of cleaning my room, can we just seal the door and call it a time capsule?"

When was the last time you cleaned this keyboard?

The Creative Process

Abstract artist scolding his son for spilling paint.

'Well, you told me not to walk through the kitchen in muddy boots!'

"Gracie! School just ended and you're already a complete mess!"

"Mijo, just do what you always do before you write a paper...it's obviously working!"

Artist 'paints' on canvas by throwing custard pies.

'I keep it this way on purpose, for speedy reference.'

"Thinking outside the box? You bet I am!"

'My husband is a police detective. He does know how to toss a room.'