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."

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

Art Guidelines

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

A military officer daydreams

'She leaves before I finish her portrait.'

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

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

Idlewild.

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

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

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

Kneaded Eraser

Vincent Van Gogh chooses the Lesser of Two Easels.

An artist unsure of what to do with his paintings

'What do you do for a living?'

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

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

"My grant ran out"

"I see the art budget's been cut again."