Brushstroke Genius Gifts

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

Christy Brown.

'No, Mr. Simmons, your MR images aren't in yet. We have older equipment, which takes a little longer to process.'

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

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

Using teamwork to paint a lamppost.

"Harold finds painting very therapeutic."

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

Artist painting a dancer.

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

The art of painting

Rembrandt, Surfer Dude.

Artist Paints Picture to Bring in the Money.

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

'It's the Titanic, afterwards.'

'Three thousand of those, four thousand of those, five thousand of those...'

'Wood is expensive and art does not pay'

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

Claude Monet

'Oscaar? Where aaaare you? Portrait time!'

Another Famous 'First Meeting:' Monet and Manet.

Devil and Angel Fighting over Artist.

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

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

Vincent Van Gogh chooses the Lesser of Two Easels.

A recurring problem in Van Gogh's later years.

Camille Pissarro

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

'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."

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

"I ran out of space."

The self-portrait.

"Paint something nice."

Artists dress for their themes.