Hands-on Artist Gifts

Pottery

'Hurry, wipe it off before Dad comes home!'

"They say it takes 10,000 hours to perfect something- I guess I was a bit hasty throwing that together in 144."

They hated me.

"In high school, I was quite the star in metal shop."

You're my Mona Lisa.

Larry's used art

Copycats

I've been teaching art history for decades. Students today ask new kinds of questions. No, I doubt a gluten-free menu option was available that evening. Nope, the artist was not making a statement about climate change. No, despite the umbrellas, this is not about sun exposure safety. Well, yes, I suppose you can say it's a selfie.

'On your mark. Get set. Create!'

boy plugging leak in a barrel with his finger

'C'mon get it straight.'

'What would your mum say if she saw you drawing all over the wall like that?'

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

"I think that's one of his early 'blank canvases'. I think there are some bigger ones in the next room."

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

Madonna of the Pukes.

It's a Whole Field of Paisley!

"You've got a long, long road ahead of you, young man."

Can You Spot the Differences?

"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."

"Guess who brought king cake!"

The Artist

International Women's Day.

"I call it 'Bad Dog.'"

Paul Klee

' A good idea '

Ban on Free Speech

Alien David statue

Wolf Danny With "Random""The work must be tantamount to mayhem. Making an insatiable public confused, indifferent, annoyed—this is the premise on which rests my deliberately vacuous oeuvre."

Face painting.

College. Did you pick a major yet? I'm doing a double major in art and logic --- I want to draw my own conclusions!

CLOTHES-HORSES OF THE ART SCENE

'Fine stencilling. But have you never thought - Tit Willow, Tit Willow, Tit Willow?'

The DaVinci Code