Ambitious Artist Gifts

Careers Fair

'I'm in my Blue period.'

"So, what did you do at charter school today?"

"I would like a tube of lemon yellow, cadmium red, cobalt blue, ivory, black, and zinc white, a sixteen-by-twenty canvas, a couple of brushes, and that book 'Painting in Oils'."

What else is there to wish for?

"I have a recurring nightmare that I've taken a test, and the professor won't give me an 'A'."

Face painting by numbers.

Child's Drawing (With Elephantiasis)

'I could do that.'

"I hear you've been doing exciting things with eggs and dye."

'I imagine you'll be asking for a full refund.'

"Today we are going to find out if you can that leap."

"I'm gonna be a 'New Yorker' cartoonist. You're not supposed to understand it."

'I have a feeling one day when he grows up he'll be an artist of some kind.'

Caged Businessman

Artist's Equipment Comes To Life

"One day, I'll be the first woman!"

"So long, boys. I'm off to the big city to try my hand at chainsaw sculpture."

"I really love school. There's only one problem. I think not having a college degree is holding me back."

Sorry, I've said all I can say in this medium.

"This is a hell of a way to start a magazine."

"Listen here pup, it's time you realized it's a "dog eat dog" world."

"You know, there's a corporate elevator."

"Oh, don't mind that, it's just my body of unseen work."

"My wife has always encouraged me... ...to quit this stupid dream and get a real job." ... "You have a wife?"

'I really wanted to only take accounting courses, but my parents made me take this cartooning class so I would have something to fall back on.'

'I wish I was creative'

Shoot For The Moon

'Miss Donahue would give him an F.'

Man Lifting Heavy Block

Girl on a giant pair of scissors.

'Never underestimate the value of pipe-dreams, my son.'

"Where am I going to college? I thought this was college."

"I like it, honey ... it speaks to what a waste of time your MFA was."

The world's most unemployable family