Punny Family History
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If you've ever cleaned your fingernails with a palette knife--you MIGHT be an artist.
If you choose a wine with an eye toward using the bottle in your next still-life--you MIGHT be an artist.
If your idea of losing weight is to paint a thinner self-portrait--you MIGHT be an artist.
If you've ever rinsed your watercolor brush in your coffee--you MIGHT be an artist.
If you didn't realize it until you noticed the taste--you MIGHT be an artist.
If you thought it improved the taste--you MIGHT be an artist.
If you thought it improved the painting--you MIGHT be an artist.
If you've ever drunk the rinse water instead of the coffee--you MIGHT be an artist.
If you've ever considered framing your palette instead of the painting--you MIGHT be an artist.
If you've ever painted an abstract and decided it looked better upside down--you MIGHT be an artist.
If your cat has chrome oxide green paws--you MIGHT be an artist.
If the paintings in your attic start looking better than the one on your easel--you MIGHT be an artist.
If you've changed your painting signature more than five times in one year--you MIGHT be an artist.
If you've ever cleaned the toilet rather than start a new painting--you MIGHT be an artist.
If you've ever touched up a painting with WhiteOut--you MIGHT be an artist.
If you've ever gotten cookie crumbs in the Titanium white--you MIGHT be an artist.
If you can spell phthalocyanine, you MIGHT be an artist.
If you've ever scrubbed a hole in a watercolor--you MIGHT be an artist.
If you've ever accidentally mixed oils and acrylics--you MIGHT be an artist.
by Jim Lane 18 October 1998
His dizzy aunt ----------- Verti Gogh
The brother who ate lots of prunes -------- Gotta Gogh
The brother who worked at a convenience store-------- Stop n Gogh
The grandfather from Yugoslavia ------U Gogh
The cousin from Illinois ------Chica Gogh
His magician uncle -----Where-diddy Gogh
His Mexican cousin --------A-mee Gogh
The Mexican cousin's American half-brother ----- Gring Gogh
The nephew who drove a stage coach------- Wells-far Gogh
The constipated uncle -------Can't Gogh
The ballroom dancing aunt ----- Tang Gogh
The bird lover uncle ---------Fla min Gogh
The fruit loving cousin --------Man Gogh
An aunt who taught positive thinking ------Way-to-Gogh
The little bouncy nephew -----Poe Gogh
A sister who loved disco ------Go Gogh
His niece who travels the country in an RV ------Winnie Bay Gogh
His nephew the bouncer------Out U Gogh
2nd cousin, draft dodger------Don't Wanna Gogh
The Twins that invented GPS------------How To Gogh & Where To Gogh
His great Uncle that made ExLax-----Makes U Gogh
The stevedore nephew-----------Car Gogh
The vegetable farmer--------Rutabay-Gogh
The boastful politician---------E-Gogh
The dyslexic sports fan-------Gogh Yankees
The Cartoonists Group cartoons about art
Monty Python's classic lesson on Appropriate Art Museum Behavior
Art Education Cartoons by McCracken
You have seen many parodies of American Gothic by Iowa artist Grant Wood.
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AEI is proud to feature the work of Iowa students. The images above were Youth Art Month Sargent Art Winners (L to R)
**New York Trip Winner
* Student/educator art supplies Winners
**Shannon Morgan,
Treynor HS-Treynor, Teacher Carol Flaten
*HS Whitney Matthew, Tri-Center HS-Neola, Teacher Susan Wedemeyer
*MS Jaime Villegas,
Roundy School
CSD-Columbus Junction, Teacher Nicole Beckley,
*EL Haylie Ryan,
Berg Elem.-Newton, Teacher Margaret Caldwell
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