Creative Chaos Admirer Gifts

'Maybe if you cut off an ear it would look better.'

Katherine Mansfield.

'It's called 'Oh Bugger It!' if you must know!'

"Good" "Bad" "Work on it" "Keep working - maybe it's not as bad as you think it is" "Put it to a committee" "Give up" "Make it worse" "Make it better" "Still a bad idea" "Overthink it" "Throw yourself into a pit of wild badgers" "Throw it away" "Call it done" "Sigh."

Face painting.

"Walk, hell- I gotta dance."

"Wait a sec, I have a coupon around here somewhere."

'Look, Dad, I made a pair of boots out of your chest waders.'

'Marm doesn't understand, 'I've got it, I've got it'.'

"I've decided to add a little magic, so, everyone, say hello to my little friend."

“Pottery Classes – Give it a Whirl!”

'Why am I not surprised that this section is always the most disorganized?'

When cartoonists get ahead of themselves.

Homework Help and Homework Eaten Stands

"And I suppose cleaning up after yourself just once would in some way stifle your precious creativity."

'Your manuscript was delicious.'

Falling for art

A Cartoonist's and a Sculptor's File Cabinets.

Steadman - The Early Years.

Paint fight art!

"Mikey and Bubbles: Gorilla songwriters"

"They're love poems alright, but he cuts up the lines, throws them in the air and reassembles them randomly..."

'Are you sure every artist paints himself?'

"Too busy."

Drawing board disaster.

There are no stupid questions. Ernie takes that sort of thing as a challenge.

Artist, sitting in front of a sign identifying a bridge as a draw bridge, draws the bridge.

Highway sign writer's block.

Photocopying his ass was not as easy as he'd been led to believe.

"Very creative, but is it something your mother would want to share on social media?"

'... and you say sorry for blowing raspberries during his closing address.'

"I like to be disciplined about my writing, sharpening my pencils and organising my desk in the morning which leaves me time for writers block after lunch and a nervous breakdown in the evening."

"Mijo, just do what you always do before you write a paper...it's obviously working!"

"I know it's surface-level behavior, but I think I just might respond to it."

"Take a long drink, son. Someday it will all be yours."