Imaginative Painter Gifts

'Apparently all my creative juices have seeped into the left side of my brain.'

Symbolism for Artists

Young Frank Lloyd Wright

'Peter the Flying Hippo is my favorite storybook character without any merchandising tie-ins.'

'Call for you on the cream corn line.'

CLOTHES-HORSES OF THE ART SCENE

The Map of the human brain

"I don't care about the rating on Goodreads. We're reading Cinderella!"

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

'I'm in my Blue period.'

"The woman on the fire escape who acted like it was a balcony"

"I decided to go all out on the house decorations this year."

"I don't think I can express what I have to say in just colored paper and glue."

Shadow Puppet Bunny Threatened By Shadow Hawk

he tries to fly all the time but actually never gets airborne

Here be dragons.

"I may not know much about art, but I do know what's suitable for framing."

"Where the wild things were."

'Read me the one about the ant and the obsessive-compulsive grasshopper.'

Susie knew she could rely on big Ted for comfort.

Real Life/Surreal Life

''Raining cats and dogs' is just a phrase, Alix.'

'Nope. I didn't see any dogfish.'

Biggles has a more staid adventure.

'Meet the author with her collaborators'

Cinderella and Charming the Clown

Phoenix

'My first camera'

Imagine

'Ben, true sportsmanship is a state of mind, and I'm proud of you.'

'All good things must come to an end.'

Alice in Wonderland - The Pig Baby.

'That cloud doesn't look like a horse to me, but if I import it into Photoshop...'

Leaves falling out of a painting.

Jackson Pollock as a child