Budding Painter Gifts

Great works I plan to complete during the lockdown.

'It wasn't until Picasso realzed he was earning $2,856 per hour that he began painting all night.'

"I spent locked out including my painting."

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

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

My First Camera

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

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

"I'll bet all of Albert Einstein's teachers felt like idiots for giving him bad grades too."

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

"Mother, I think I'm good enough to exhibit on the living room walls now."

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

Four children playing the flute.

Timmy has a great future in nano-technology.

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

"I sincerely hope you learned a lesson this time, Mark. Drawing cartoons on your homework will get you nowhere in life."

'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."

"Don't worry, Miss. I'll soon get the hang of it."

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

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

Kid doing cave paintings

'Do I have to be creative?'

Creative Baby.

'My first camera'

How to draw a martian!

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

'All good things must come to an end.'

Building Blocks.

"It's the poor artist who blames his crayons."

'Look. Billy Curry did a nude!'

'Mom says finger painting was digital art before computers.'

"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."

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

Jackson Pollock as a child