Artistic Struggler Gifts

"After years of cartoon rejections, Bill stooped to trying a little shameless product placement."

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

'I love my new easylife artist's easel.'

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

battered artist has painted picture of falling bomb.

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

Graffiti artists signs his memoirs in bookshop.

Whistler's Great-Great-Great-Great-Great Grandson

"This next one is a typical blues number about exceeding your data plan limit, cracking your ipad screen, and losing your new ear buds."

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

This year Mike decides to make his own Valentine's cards.

The world's most unemployable family

Like many kids, Bobby had an imaginary friend. Unfortunately for Bobby, he was a critic.

"This next song is about narrow-minded record executives and their reluctance to take a chance on anything a bit different."

"Sorry, you're not cut out to be a mime artist."

"Have you give any thought to my suggestion about a sculpture that's just a chubby kid constantly peeing."

"Great money scenes!"

'Don't be hard on the boy, dear, I'm sure that Van Gogh's first sunflowers weren't so hot.'

"Maybe I haven't suffered enough. Why don't you whip up some of your curried pork balls and refried rice for dinner?"

'Sorry, but I think your Mondrian tattoo was a mistake.'

Hanging Mime - Such a waste of talent.

An artist creates a sculpture of a "thumbs up" and is then crushed by it.

People I've Met At Parties Whose Names I've Forgotten

'Dauber Micawber'

'If you do not stop smudging, I'm getting a new cartoonist.'

Muhammad Dali...

Toilet Art.

The sword is mightier than the pen.

"Bloody Graffiti."

'I thought I could dance...'

'It all started when I took a Rorschach test.'

"By the way, HarperCollins decided your book did not warrant publication."

An artist blows smoke that forms into a cloud which rains onto his canvas.

Al, I hear that only one out of 100 art school graduates goes on to make a living in art. That's where I was smart, Axel: I flunked out!

"That painting's not going to paint itself."