Ancient Color Enthusiast Gifts

'Not that yukky color!'

The Art Student.

Butterfly Woman

'Just think of it as graphic design, Mom.'

"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'."

"We're having one heck of a time building that trapezoidal thing of yours..."

"Isn't it an amazing co-incidence that this is an orange, and it IS ORANGE?"

'You just don't know when to stop, do you?'

Those Were The Days

"Too bright."

'Evidently, one of them was a cartoonist!'

An ancient Egyptian exhibit at a museum.

Just call me Picasso!

They were mysteriously drawn together

"Someday you'll see my work in the employee break room at the Met."

"A world without Ovid? I can't even begin to imagine a world without Ovid."

'But this is fantastic, professor! It's like no language I've ever seen before!'

"Take that mammoth back. It's not 'wooly' enough."

"I'll give you $5 for that shirt."

I'm not sure which, but he's just invented either writing or vandalism. (Published originally on Feb. 11, 2011.)

Creative Baby.

"He's an abstract artist."

California Gold...field of poppies with matching border

"120 colors and no 'Sun' color!!"

''Now we're the only yard in the block with a blue apple tree!'

Piles of trash discarded by ancient people are a rich source of artifacts for archaeologists. I unearthed garbage dumps that advanced our understanding of prehistoric societies. On the island of Crete I found ancient trash that increased our knowledge about the Minoan people. And I recently uncovered informative Celtic rubbish. Please stop saying studying ancient cultures by what they threw away is "junk science"!

"It's the poor artist who blames his crayons."

'Mom says finger painting was digital art before computers.'

"...and if you add wind-chill factor, the next plague will be even worse!"

Goddess

'You called me out of the blue... Cobalt, ultramarine, prussian, cerulean or phthalocyanine?'

'I WANTED to paint the room a shade of green, but gave up somewhere between chartreuse and citrine.'

"My scoop-back tank comes in Mango, Morning Glory, and Scallion. Don's Maori surfers are available in Iris, Mustard, and Prawn."

'They're relics of the many ancient civilization that have dwelled at Blisshaven.'

Dog and Human Archaeologists