Struggling Creative Gifts

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

I should be a writer when I grow up...

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

'I'm in my Blue period.'

'My imaginary playmate can whip your imaginary playmate!'

'I love my new easylife artist's easel.'

Great works I plan to complete during the lockdown.

'The housing market may be flat, but pillow-fort construction is blooming!'

' 'Cat in the Window'...chapter 14...'

"Those are the failed attempts at my first novel."

Giraffe Portrait

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

'He's working on a lullaby.'

House of books.

"So, do you see yourself as a car valet who writes screenplays or a screen writer who parks cars?"

Space for Lease.

I often thought that I should have been a weaver of words,someone who danced and sang his way into peoples souls and through my imagination led others into a world of dreams and intoxicating revelry...But auditing offered a much better pension.

Scenic View offers mountain with cherry on top.

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

Truthfully, I'm just a frustrated insurance agent …

Paper being carefully folded until it resembles a scrunched up paper ball.

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

"I suppose we could burst onto the literary scene."

'Looking for a muse, love?'

"This is what I think of your stupid imaginary friend."

"See, that's the problem with you new breed. You take rejection too personally."

Origami time!

Hope you're still writing that novel!

'Fine, I'll go to my room, but one day when I'm a famous artist you'll be telling this story as an amusing anecdote!'

'Your manuscript was delicious.'

Using the skill of pottery to make athletics trophy.

I think I have at least one book in me. And he yells at me for chewing on things!

Painter's muse

"I dreamed Lucian Freud was coming to paint us."

"Dude—you're ruining my face—and when are you painting my hands—my ear is itchy—also you stink—hurry up!"