Aspiring Painter Mugs

Truthfully, I'm just a frustrated insurance agent …

Amateur artist talking to carrier

"You've got a long, long road ahead of you, young man."

'I'm in my Blue period.'

Painting by the numbers for adults

"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.'

Artist's Equipment Comes To Life

'Do I have to be creative?'

'Miss Donahue would give him an F.'

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

'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.'

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

Children's Imagination

'I've been told I have Rembrandt's golden glow.'

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

"It all starts with them having you fetch their slippers."

"Billy is turning out to be quite the little artist."

This one's mixed media--- I had jelly on my hands while finger-painting.

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."

"She gets her musical ability from me."

'Well, that does not yet look like a wall. Try it again, Liam!'

"That'll be the day!"

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

"We thought we could put in the details later."

'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."

"Oh, so the big famous painter doesn't have time to visit his mother and paint her portrait, is that it?"

'You did that on purpose!'

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

Picasso's learning years.