Budding Romantic Gifts

Precocious child offering a young lady advice on love

"So where is this leading?"

"You want to say WHAT?"

"I'd like a packet of seeds for a first date, please."

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

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

My First Camera

'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.

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

"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.'

'My 'What I Did Over The Weekend' report is about my hunting a 17,000 pound moose, deep inside Canada.Some or all of this report has been fictionalized for dramatic purposes.'

" '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.'

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

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

'Do I have to be creative?'

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

'All good things must come to an end.'

'My first camera'

Creative Baby.

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

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

'Look. Billy Curry did a nude!'

No animals were harmed during the writing of this book report....

"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

Michelangelo painting with watercolors as a child.

Lessons from the Blakely Art School (Now Defunct)

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

"It's supposed to be a comedy, so I've had Steve, here, red-flag the funny parts."