Starving Artist Life Mugs

It's Time For You To Start Banking At The First National Artiste Savings & Loan.

"After years of cartoon rejections, Bill stooped to trying a little shameless product placement."

'You see, Brad, I'm not just a highly polished career woman.'

"How the hell is that supposed to feed us?"

"This next one is a typical blues number about exceeding your data plan limit, cracking your ipad screen, and losing your new ear buds."

"Move, Gary."

"Wow, these are great cartoons! We have to let them go, and anyway, cartoonists are on the endangered species list..."

"So you're the artist dating my daughter? I've seen your work...you MUST be starving."

"Maybe I haven't suffered enough. Why don't you whip up some of your curried pork balls and refried rice for dinner?"

"I spent locked out including my painting."

Artist and the artist's model both thinking of the money.

"By the way, HarperCollins decided your book did not warrant publication."

Al, I hear that only one out of 100 art school graduates goes on to make a living in art. That's where I was smart, Axel: I flunked out!

'I highly recommend this painting if you're into art as an investment.'

"Actually, I just came up here to get away from leading economic indicators."

Art Guidelines

'She leaves before I finish her portrait.'

A military officer daydreams

'This next song is about a close call and a near success. It's called The Grant that Got Away.'

Social Networking Sites for the Unemployed

'He got a grant on the condition that he stop painting for a year.'

"...but if it's a business trip why are you taking your fly pole?"

Idlewild.

'"For the love of it" no longer accepted. Cash only'

An artist unsure of what to do with his paintings

'Golf was too frustrating, so Ed took up painting!'

"Will you do me the honour of becoming my excuse for the frustrations and failures of all my creative endeavours?"

Starving Artist Sale.

Vincent Van Gogh chooses the Lesser of Two Easels.

Kneaded Eraser

"In my day we didn't use parachutes."

'What do you do for a living?'

"It's a minimalist production-after we paid for the venue we couldn't afford a set."

'I've met someone who actually got paid for a painting once.'

"My grant ran out"