Palette Aficionado Gifts

"I paint only what I love..."

The Art Student.

Butterfly Woman

'Just think of it as graphic design, Mom.'

"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'."

"Isn't it an amazing co-incidence that this is an orange, and it IS ORANGE?"

"Too bright."

They were mysteriously drawn together

"Someday you'll see my work in the employee break room at the Met."

Just call me Picasso!

"I'll give you $5 for that shirt."

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

California Gold...field of poppies with matching border

Creative Baby.

"He's an abstract artist."

"It's the poor artist who blames his crayons."

'Mom says finger painting was digital art before computers.'

'Why don't you use more blue? -- Blue is very popular these days.'

'You called me out of the blue... Cobalt, ultramarine, prussian, cerulean or phthalocyanine?'

'Pink isn't EITHER the new black!'

"My scoop-back tank comes in Mango, Morning Glory, and Scallion. Don's Maori surfers are available in Iris, Mustard, and Prawn."

'I WANTED to paint the room a shade of green, but gave up somewhere between chartreuse and citrine.'

"It makes a statement, but it begs a question."

"Dadgum this color blindness."

Exhibition of Paint Colors.

"Your painting is both original and good. Sadly, the good bits are not original and the original bits are not good."

A Christmas tree self portrait

'I wish you wouldn't bring your work home with you!'

"Mom, Dad, I have something to tell you."

Pea green

"Your receipt is also available in a choice of colors."

Instant art

"Trust me, detainee orange is going to be huge this fall."

'I'm sorry, but there's nothing in the zoning regulations covering bad taste.'