Starting Art Lessons Gifts

Real bird meets a cartoon bird.

The Art Student.

'On your mark. Get set. Create!'

“She’s in her abstract expressionism phase.”

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

"We're bringing the arts and sciences together here by giving crayons to mice."

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

The Artist

Paul Klee

Baby Piano

'I'm in my Blue period.'

Impressing dad.

Kid uses his violin as a golf club.

'It's my homage to Picasso.' (Snowman is all mixed up with eyes and nose in odd places)

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

Instructional guide to scribbling

Children's artwork exhibition.

"I'm afraid you were drawn too big and not centered on the page."

Van Gogh was starting to run out of gift ideas.

"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'."

"Mother, I think I'm good enough to exhibit on the living room walls now."

"What the %@!!* is that?!" "Is that a leg? Wait—no, it's an arm. Wait—what?" "The frame is nice." "Whatever it is, it makes me miss Bob Ross." "Gasp!" "The intentionally lost Caravaggio"

"An unfortunate museum gift shop." "Banksy activity set." "Jackson Pollock coloring book." "MC Escher building blocks." "Claes Oldenburg miniatures." "Marceau Marceau CDs." "Seurat's connect-the-dots aaAAAAA."

Triangle

"In the beginning, God created, like, 300 concept sketches..."

'Hi, Miss Henderson, we did collage in class today. Can you drive me home?'

"You're my Mona Lisa."

"I was drawing a whale, but I ran out of paper."

It's a call from Tate modern.

Schools of Art - A Rough Guide.

Cat with Nine Still Lives

"You're welcome."

'Projectile painting.'