Budding Professional Gifts

"You don't mind us shadowing you, do you?"

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

Two children are running lemonade stands outside their home; one stand is more popular than the other.

'Hmph. College kids.'

My First Camera

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

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

SALE

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

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

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

'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."

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

'This is your spinal column...It's a bunch of bones that runs up and down your back and keeps your legs from going all the way up to your neck.'

I need to set upmy own company.

'Do I have to be creative?'

Creative Baby.

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

'My first camera'

"Dad, this is Wendy, she's going to re-negotiate my allowance!"

'All good things must come to an end.'

The wrecking crew!

'My allowance isn't much - but I have a great benefits package!'

'Look. Billy Curry did a nude!'

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

Jackson Pollock as a child

LEMONADE 50 CENTS, NOW HIRING, 'Okay, you're hired -- now, I want you to forget everything you learned in pre-school.'

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

'We would deliver if we could cross the street.'

Michelangelo painting with watercolors as a child.

'Don't just stand there, get into focus!'

'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.'

Lessons from the Blakely Art School (Now Defunct)