Creative Youth Gifts

"Son, I really wish I could tell you that "Cowboy Ballerina" is a normal part of growing up, but... it's not."

Joey discovers the difference between coffee beans and jelly beans.

"Abstract Expressionism is definitely right for me at this stage of my career."

'Hi, Miss Henderson, we did collage in class today. Can you drive me home?'

Timmy had one heck of a security blanket.

Four children playing the flute.

'My goal is to one day have my art hanging on a refrigerator in the Louvre.'

On Aug. 3, 1992, the Moon rose over the horizon wearing heavy eye-liner and mohawk. Fortunately it was just a phase.

Children's Art Show.

Feeding of a giraffe with the use of a balloon.

'He was a great writer'

"It's a mobile."

'All good things must come to an end.'

Busking, "Stop worrying your father for money."

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

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

'Not now, dear, I'm trying to listen to the Muse.'

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

"Since I became a creator on social media, fridge displays seem so passé."

"Gracie's the only kid I know who offers El Cucuy under her bed a no-compete contract."

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

Abstract expressionist face painting.

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

El Greco

'I preferred his earlier work.'

"I love you, I'll follow you to the ends of the earth, but I'm through getting slippers for someone who hasn't published anything since 1997."

"I'm stuck for the 'June-moon' rhyme in Serbo-Croatian."

"That' a wonderful picture, sweetheart. You know, maybe we should keep all of this garbage, in case you become a famous artist."

A martial arts student saws a block of wood in half

'How was your day Ma?. . .'

"We like to think he's experimenting with color and form, but his art therapist suggested we're not giving him enough candy."

'It's a girl and she's an artist in her gestational period.'

"Remember the days we could drink and party all night and we thought guys in their 50's were old geezers?"

Jack and the Snowman.

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