Budding Artist Gifts

'Don't move.'

Jackson Pollock as a child

"And if you'd like your artwork displayed please include a brief bio."

'I love you, your father loves you. Now go paint a masterpiece.'

'Look. Billy Curry did a nude!'

"That's a LOVELY drawing, Sophie! Now let's draw one with mummy's head like a big round balloon."

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

"I wanted to see if it made a picture."

Children's Publishing - Child's portrait of 'Our Founder'.

Fridge with child's drawings in an art exhibition.

'Miss Cole hung it right next to Eddie Doan's sun.'

"Let me know if I'm going too fast for you."

'Do I have to be creative?'

'I'm not good at coloring inside the lines, but I can fix it in Photoshop.'

"You really should take some art classes. That doesn't look anything like me."

"Pfft. Derivative."

Mom's a little over the top with this stuff, but I like that!

"Is this iconic enough?"

"What are you doing?! Where are your crayons?!"

'We couldn't afford school pictures this year so Timmy is doing the family portraits.'

"Mrs. Bennett hung my turkey right next to Kevin Russell's pilgrims."

"Mommy will hang this on the refrigerator just as soon as you fine-tune the perspective."

"Van Gogh has always been associated with the colour yellow. In your case I think the colour is mediochre!"

"But I don't want to be an industrious beaver Dad: I want to be an artist..."

"As much as we support the arts, dear, we prefer that you stay away from them."

"I don't know...maybe I can make a living as an artist. I can draw all kinds of stuff!"

'It's just a first draft.'

"My art has been dark and disturbed since my parents punished me by taking my phone away."

"When it said, 'All the Colors of the Rainbow,' I expected more than seven."

"I wanted to make it look like the ones at church."

"This gives me the inner fulfillment I could never achieve through dodgeball."

"The judge said it SHOULD have never been entered."

"Benny has a little too much aptitude for art."

"That' a wonderful picture, sweetheart. You know, maybe we should keep all of this garbage, in case you become a famous artist."

Colours