Budding Musicians Gifts

Bassoon practice.

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."

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

Double Bass

Four children playing the flute.

"I know its hard to believe right now, Lawrence, but some day you'll thank me for asking you to punctuate your sentences correctly."

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

" 'How I Spent My Summer Vacation,' a treatment by Todd Mozelle, Grade Three."

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

'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.'

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

'Do I have to be creative?'

Timpani.

"This is an excellent story, Doris, so far."

Creative Baby.

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

"I was finishing my homework in the shower to save time!"

'All good things must come to an end.'

'Look. Billy Curry did a nude!'

'For God's sake give me some angst, how will I ever write a misery memoir?'

"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."

Jackson Pollock as a child

'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.'

Michelangelo painting with watercolors as a child.

Lessons from the Blakely Art School (Now Defunct)

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

"I've finally finished my lockdown novel."

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

Fridge with child's drawings in an art exhibition.

'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'.