Creative Mess Admirer Gifts

"I believe it's from his lockdown period."

'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."

'I'm just exercising my first amendment rights.'

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

'You could say this is how my husband and I support local arts.'

Jackson Pollock as a child

'The sleepover was great Mum: Timmy's house is a pigsty just like ours...'

"Jackson Pollock's diaper"

Instant art

'How was your day Ma?. . .'

'...now pour the mixture into a baking dish...'

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

"Perhaps it was wrong to say 'May our company become a home to you'..."

Falling for art

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

'I'm all about quantity.'

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

"My decorating style is more like 'Flung Shui'."

'You have to clean it yourself. There is no delete key.'

"Too busy."

"One checker, two packs of cigarettes, two screws, one teapot bird, one piece of coal, three lighters, one Christmas light, one clove of garlic, four boxes of matches, two books, three pieces of broken dish, eggshells, one saltshaker peg, one pen, one cre

'Cleanliness may be next to godliness, but with Jimmy it's next to impossible.'

'Are you sure every artist paints himself?'

Paint fight art!

"Mikey and Bubbles: Gorilla songwriters"

Stamped

'It actually works pretty good just about anywhere.'

Abstract artist scolding his son for spilling paint.

'Well, you told me not to walk through the kitchen in muddy boots!'

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