Budding Stylist Mugs

'Look, dad, the hair apparent!'

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!'

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

"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."

'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."

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

Building a Shelter

'Do I have to be creative?'

'All good things must come to an end.'

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

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

Creative Baby.

"There will be a winning team and a losing team. Are you OK with that?"

How to draw a martian!

'My first camera'

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

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

'Look. Billy Curry did a nude!'

'There! Now you won't get tangles!'

"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

Michelangelo painting with watercolors 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.'

"I've finally finished my lockdown novel."

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

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 dreamt I went to school without my phone!"