Childhood Artist Gifts

Happy Turkey Day!

"Can we teach our child how to create art digitally."

Joey discovers the difference between coffee beans and jelly beans.

"Hold it right there, ma'am! If you get too close to the artwork, I'll have to ask you to leave the gallery."

My First Camera

"That's our house, that's Mommy going to work, and that's you, staring out the window, wondering where it all went wrong."

"It's a postmodern mosaic, almost lyrical in its undercurrent." "My five-year-old will be happy to hear that."

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

"I was drawing a whale, but I ran out of paper."

"You're welcome."

"I've decided to cut out the middleman and self-publish."

"Mom, will you help me take down my drawings? I'm selling my catalog."

Children's Art Show.

"It's a mobile."

''Now we're the only yard in the block with a blue apple tree!'

"120 colors and no 'Sun' color!!"

"I'm making pink lemonade!"

'Don't write on that wall with crayons! It'll show up better on that wall over there.'

"We're hoping that someday Rosalie will be a major player in the creative economy."

'I'm having a private showing over on my grandma's refrigerator next week.'

This one's mixed media--- I had jelly on my hands while finger-painting.

"Timmy, your dog looks just like he does in your drawings."

Pediatrics: Anatomy

"What? Out of ink already? I just bought this pen."

'Max really likes those genetic markers.'

'How was your day Ma?. . .'

"This gives me the inner fulfillment I could never achieve through dodgeball."

Jack and the Snowman.

Bobby eight year old

'I take from this flood of faxes that your son is in art class.'

"Now, is this the kind of painting you mommy would be proud to post on her Instagram?"

'It's good, Timmy, but it's not refrigerator good.'

Sure start.

Child placing crayon drawing over TV screen

"I guess life does imitate art."