Artful Thinker Gifts

Harmon Silas, calculating the thousand words his picture is worth, wonders what do do with contractions.

"It's an honest piece"

"I should have been a pair of ragged claws scuttling across the floors of silent seas."

Primavera (Spring)

Bob's Tattwo Parlor

If you keep sitting on your paintings, you're going to become an impressionist!

'What School Are You?'

Preparing to paint an un-still life.

'You should've expected this when you told them to draw pictures of vanishing breeds.'

'I hope there isn't art as we know it on other planets.'

'Now class,' says teacher, looking at a bowl of fruit. Behind her, her class is staring at a portrait of a naked woman.

"I is no longer sure I is an egg."

Badly Drawn. Please Photoshop.

'The wheel was great, but what have you done for me lately?'

Young Frank Lloyd Wright

At the end of each day, Gary had approximately 7 minutes of free time – which left him feeling very vulnerable.

'Let's not go by the book.'

Copycats

I've been teaching art history for decades. Students today ask new kinds of questions. No, I doubt a gluten-free menu option was available that evening. Nope, the artist was not making a statement about climate change. No, despite the umbrellas, this is not about sun exposure safety. Well, yes, I suppose you can say it's a selfie.

"No, I didn't steal your content. I just have your content's doppleganger."

'The creative process works best with a relaxed brain, so I'm letting my mind wander to let a solution drift in.'

Library sections; Fiction, non-fiction and do-it-yourself.

"I call it 'Bad Dog.'"

' A good idea '

"Of all the buildings I've designed, it's probably the most handsome."

"She's been so creative lately."

"Either that's Marmaduke with a lizard's head in front of us, or I really mixed up my meds."

College. Did you pick a major yet? I'm doing a double major in art and logic --- I want to draw my own conclusions!

What can I do? He says it's his thinking cap.

"I just love the way you're so endlessly inventive in the bedroom."

'The secret to doing a book report is only picking books that have been made in to movies.'

"Let me slip into something a little more thoughtful."

'Assuming their porridge was poured at the same time, how could it then be too hot, too cold and just right?'

Empty box of ideas

"Wait 'til my Dad hears about this!"