Future Painter Gifts

"Since Frank retired two years ago, he's been on the alert for some long-dormant artistic talent to develop."

boy plugging leak in a barrel with his finger

Painting by the numbers for adults

"I did the best dental health poster in the class. I just hope Mr. Tooth Decay doesn't hold a grudge."

"I would like a tube of lemon yellow, cadmium red, cobalt blue, ivory, black, and zinc white, a sixteen-by-twenty canvas, a couple of brushes, and that book 'Painting in Oils'."

'You learn how to make dough later. For now, you're on a knead-to-know basis.'

"I'm gonna be a 'New Yorker' cartoonist. You're not supposed to understand it."

'I have a feeling one day when he grows up he'll be an artist of some kind.'

Artist's Equipment Comes To Life

'You could do that.' I did

'I don't care if Jackson Pollock did start out this way. We are drawing kittens.'

'Miss Donahue would give him an F.'

'I really wanted to only take accounting courses, but my parents made me take this cartooning class so I would have something to fall back on.'

"Oh, don't mind that, it's just my body of unseen work."

"My wife has always encouraged me... ...to quit this stupid dream and get a real job." ... "You have a wife?"

"Perhaps in my next life I'll be a jpeg."

'It's not easy painting hummingbirds.'

"Stop complaining and smile! It's a job, isn't it? NO wonder they call you Mona!"

"Which way to the Mona Lisa? We're double-parked."

"I don't know what happened, your holiness! I painted the ENTIRE CEILING!"

"Isn't it obvious? I'm writing the great American graphic novel."

Children's Imagination

'I agree, this artist will go far and he should start right now!'

'I've been told I have Rembrandt's golden glow.'

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

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

"There are those who say I'm a throwback to Monet."

"My method of painting is pointillism."

Hazards of mouse painting

Like many kids, Bobby had an imaginary friend. Unfortunately for Bobby, he was a critic.

"Your spelling, grammar and typography are all dreadful... Do you really want to end up as a cartoonist when you're older..??

Brian, I hope you're taking this seriously.

"It all starts with them having you fetch their slippers."

"I think I know where the passion in our marriage has gone."

Artist Retrospective.