Brushstroke Beginners Gifts

'I'm glad you like it, but I haven't started it yet.'

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

Using teamwork to paint a lamppost.

"Harold finds painting very therapeutic."

Jackson Pollock.

"Ok, let's sneak up on Mr. Canvas and see if we can make a good impression."

Save the tree.

Artist painting a dancer.

"He hasn't the heart to discharge her. She's been with him for years."

Artist Paints Picture to Bring in the Money.

The art of painting

Rembrandt, Surfer Dude.

"We were already in this room—I remember that hideous Renoir."

'It's the Titanic, afterwards.'

"One lyrical landscape—heavy on the Wyeth, light on the Expressionism."

The Final Backstroke

'Wood is expensive and art does not pay'

Another Famous 'First Meeting:' Monet and Manet.

Claude Monet

'Oscaar? Where aaaare you? Portrait time!'

A recurring problem in Van Gogh's later years.

Vincent Van Gogh chooses the Lesser of Two Easels.

"No honestly, your work is good, it's just not instagram good."

"What's come over you since Friday, Miss Schemke?"

Devil and Angel Fighting over Artist.

Camille Pissarro

I've got to run down to the art store again. Another gilt trip?

Paint pot - "It does exactly what it says on the tin."

"This is your studio? It's just an apartment."

'Beautiful, consummate painterly skill, which we all know is old hat, and therefore, not for us.'

"I don't know who he is, Muriel, but he's strange and doesn't know how to paint."

"Sotheby's extends its deepest sympathies and wonders whether the deceased might have owned any early German Expressionist pieces."

"I ran out of space."

Artists dress for their themes.

Christy Brown.