Budding Virtuoso Gifts

A boy playing the violin

Violin Lesson

"Do you want to play doctorate?"

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.

Four children playing the flute.

Great works I plan to complete during the lockdown.

'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.'

'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."

"Mom, Mom, watch me!"

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

"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.'

'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."

'Do I have to be creative?'

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

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

'All good things must come to an end.'

"Gracie, I'm proud of you. Your team lost, but you tried your best and that's all that counts."

Children playing football.

Creative Baby.

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

'Look. Billy Curry did a nude!'

"Viola player coming through!"

"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."

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

Jackson Pollock as a child

"Is there a problem officer?"

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.'

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