Aspiring Guitarist Mugs

"I'm taking guitar lessons and swimming lessons this summer. I hope I have time for both!"

"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'."

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

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

Jeff Beck.

"I've been genetically modified!"

"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?"

'Miss Donahue would give him an F.'

Busking, "Stop worrying your father for money."

'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.'

'Hey guys?. . . Help us think what Dale could do for his '15 minutes of fame.''

'Man it's a tough crowd tonight!'

Children's Imagination

"Obviously, I can't fly like you, but if you teach me, I can probably sing like you..."

Mr. K's essay is such a drag! Yeah, but I've got to do really well. Twig! You're such a grind! Am not! Life isn't only about grades. I know! But he's directing the spring musical. And my singing won't get me the part all by itself! English: Gateway to the Grammys.

"Next, I'd like to play 'Guantanamera.'"

'I'm sure I could lie on my back waving my feet in the air if I could play the saxophone.'

The Quack Quack Diaries: Quack Quack Writes A Top Ten Hit

Brian, I hope you're taking this seriously.

"If I had it all to do over again, I would have liked to be the King of Swing."

"That'll be the day!"

"I think your guitar's broken. No matter what you play, it sounds the same."

"She gets her musical ability from me."

'I'm with the band.'

"I've made a fortune as a successful artist! I couldn't see this happening if I became a soldier or a worker..."

'I told you I'd make you a star.'

"I couldn't get a signal while I was at the mall. I can now relate to those songs that sing about the blues."

A child busking

'Today's unwilling nude model is Ralph.'

'Oh Rats! I can't be creative with a box of flat crayons!'

"I've been an emerging artist for ten years now..."

"I owe my success to him. I figured, if he can make it, so can I."

'I need to practice painting the human figure, MOM! Models cost money!"

"I promised myself I would never let this happen to me."