Pencil Artist Gifts

Again, you don't need all the smell lines.

Henri Matisse

Pencils aging

'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."

The Art Student.

They hated me.

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

You're my Mona Lisa.

Larry's used art

Copycats

Lady using paint roller as rolling pin for baking dough.

Jack of all trades

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!'

'C'mon get it straight.'

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

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

"I spilled a red dot of paint, so I painted the whole room so you wouldn't notice it."

It's a Whole Field of Paisley!

Madonna of the Pukes.

"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!'

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

"No Timmy, I don't think your pencil has system requirments or upgrades you can download from the internet."

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!"

International Women's Day.

Paul Klee

The Artist

"I call it 'Bad Dog.'"

' A good idea '

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."

Ban on Free Speech