Budding Minimalist Gifts

Stuff you need once then leave at the back of the cupboard to fester

Young Frank Lloyd Wright

I should be a writer when I grow up...

Library sections; Fiction, non-fiction and do-it-yourself.

'I love your playing....especially when you stop!'

"Abstract Expressionism is definitely right for me at this stage of my career."

Kid with messed up project in Wood Shop, titled: 'Wouldn't Shop'

Child drawing fish from life by putting his head in a pond.

'Can you tell me what I've written? I can't read!'

Great works I plan to complete during the lockdown.

Timmy has a great future in nano-technology.

'With my parents out of the house, I can finally start my long awaited mural project.'

"... And his piano teacher says that he definitely has Van Gough's ear for music."

'Who I played in Summer Stock.'

'I have a feeling one day when he grows up he'll be an artist of some kind.'

'We're pushing our do-it-yourself kit, today, sir - a ream of paper and a half-dozen pencils.'

"Someday you'll see my work in the employee break room at the Met."

Building a Shelter

'Do I have to be creative?'

'All good things must come to an end.'

Building Blocks.

How to draw a martian!

Creative Baby.

Mum has a bad judgement day - Well OK, you can take it to your room as long as you play it quietly.

'Look. Billy Curry did a nude!'

"Isn't it obvious? I'm writing the great American graphic novel."

"There's the pressure from my public, naturally, as well as the pressure from my publisher, my agent, and all that. But the real pressure comes from that devil inside that makes me different from other men, that makes me a writer. But, of course, you know all about pressure, grinding out those papers at Sarah Lawrence."

"My buildings are meant to inspire."

Jackson Pollock as a child

"I've finally finished my lockdown novel."

"Your book stinks—we want to publish it."

Michelangelo painting with watercolors as a child.

"I dreamt I went to school without my phone!"

'I'm not sure if he plays that loud because he has a good set of lungs or if it's a mean streak in him.'

Teacher to student: 'Nice use of glitter, but you were assigned to do math problems.'