Unlucky Artist Mugs

Unlucky sculpture.

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

I will not talk in art class. I will not talk in art class. I will not talk in art class. I will not in art class. I will not talk in art class.

'I wish I was creative'

"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."

Congratulations! - You have been nominated for the Turner Prize...

'It wasn't premeditated.

Rats deserting a sinking ship

'I hate my life.

"Did we just paint the house or did it just paint us?!"

'You're not creating another thing till you've tidied your room!'

Non Drip Paint

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

'You said you went to night classes to draw birds, and when I asked whether they had clothes on and you said they didn't - you know I didn't expect this!'

Small Business Loan of Pencils

Close... but no Degas.

'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.'

Tuba Music

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

'Don't just sit there buffering, clean up you room.'

Careers Fair

A statue of a baseball player swinging a bat stands next to a building with a broken glass window.

'Just think of it as graphic design, Mom.'

Volcano and plane

Romantic Painter

"Pipe Dream"

Hair trigger

'What happened?!? That idiot cartoonist spilled coffee all over me, that's what!' (cartoon about cartooning)

'Like heck he invented fire -- it was spontaneous combustion from the slob's trash pile.'

"They told me I was going places. They just never told me where."

An artist unsure of what to do with his paintings

'During my trip around the World, I took some pictures with this new digital camera... here is my finger covering the lens in Sidney... here in New York... Rome... Lisbon... Hamburg...'