Ambitious Artist Mugs

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'."

Child's Drawing (With Elephantiasis)

Face painting by numbers.

'I could do that.'

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

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

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

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

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

Caged Businessman

Artist's Equipment Comes To Life

'I don't care if Jackson Pollock did start out this way. We are drawing kittens.'

"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."

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

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

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

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

Shoot For The Moon

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

'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.'

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

'Miss Donahue would give him an F.'

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

'I wish I was creative'

Man Lifting Heavy Block

Girl on a giant pair of scissors.

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

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

The world's most unemployable family