Jerome (1998)

Drew Pillsbury plays artist Wade Hampton

Wade picks up an old broken umbrella from the road presumably to use in his scrap metal sculptures.

Wade's friend Lonnie shows the piece titled 'Calamity Jane' that Wade sent him from prison. 

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Wade Hampton, an aspiring sculptor (played by Drew Pillsbury), had been stuck in a factory job for 15 years. He decides to pursue his artistic dreams in Jerome, Arizona, where a community of artists awaits him, leaving his California life behind. Wade’s road trip takes a dark turn when he offers a ride to a hitchhiker named Jane (played by Wendie Malick) in the middle of the desert. Wade becomes entangled in a murder that could have serious consequences for his life.

In the movie, we only get to see one of Wade’s sculptures titled “Calamity Jane,” which he created while in prison.

Disconnect (2012)

Paula Patton plays artist Cindy Hull

Cindy Hull is a grieving mother who has an online business as an artist selling her papercuts

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A drama centered on a group of people searching for human connections in today's wired world.

Cindy Hull is a grieving mother who has an online business as an artist selling her papercuts

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Are You Afraid of the Dark - The Tale Of The Unfinished Painting (1995)

Jewel Staite plays artist Cody

Amanda Gay plays artist Jenna

Vivian Reis plays artist and gallery owner Mrs. Briar

Cody is a young artist who doesn't feel particularly inspired

She sits in the park sketching the trees but scribbles her drawing out as she says "If you want to create the kind of art that moves someone, you have to see more than whats obvious, you have to become a part of what your drawing"

One day while sketching she sees a little girl who drops her hat, when she follows her to return it she arrives at "The Hunter Gallery"

The gallery is filled with paintings

All of the paintings are signed by Mrs. Brair

Mrs Briar introduces herself to Cody and tells her all of these painting are hers

Cody admires the painting and tells Mrs Briar she is an artist too but feels blocked

While Mrs Briar shows her around she sees another girl (Jenna) working on a painting

Mrs Brair takes her to the back room in the gallery and shows her a room filled with unfinished paintings. She tells Cody they are from different artists who lost inspiration before they were complete

Mrs Briar tells Cody she takes on young apprentice artists to finish these paintings as a teaching tool, she explains this is what Jenna is working on in the gallery

Jenna painting in the gallery

Jenna painting

Cody admores a ballerina painting, she closes her eyes and reaches out imagining she is part of the painting

suddenly she is within the painting dancing the the ballerinas. When Mrs Briar returns she finds herself again in front of the painting and imagines it was a daydream. Mrs Briar asks if she would like to be an apprentice and work on this particular painting, Cody jumps at the chance

The next day Cody begins her apprenticeship working on the painting

She fill a sketchbook with drawings of the painting

meanwhile Jenna has finished her own painting

Mrs Briars is pleased and asks Jenna to sign it, Jenna is reluctant as she says it isn't her work but Mrs Briars is very persuasive

Jenna signs the painting and disappears

Cody's finished painting

Mrs Briars arrives to persuade Cody to sign the painting she was finishing

An aspiring young artist apprentices under the owner of a studio/gallery who is actually a witch, who traps victims inside paintings.

The Image (1969)

Michael Byrne plays the artist

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A troubled artist (Michael Byrne) is haunted by a ghostly young man (David Bowie) who appears to step right out of one of the artist's paintings. From a brief summary located on the cover of the film's script, it reads: a study of the illusionary reality world within the schizophrenic mind of the artist at his point of creativity.
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His Friend's Wife (1911)

 Francis X. Bushman plays The Artist

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An artist grows weary of his wife and decides to cast her aside only to learn later that she has since wedded his best friend

Alone in the T-Shirt Zone (1986)

Michael Barrack plays artist Michael Mikaele

Mike B. Anderson plays fellow artist Greg(as Mikel B. Anderson)

Michael in his studio at the short factory brewing coffee through a t-shirt

The phone in Michael's studio

A button marked with 'art' flashes when he receives a call

One of Michael's T-shirt designs

Michael is told he has made a mistake with one of his designs

Fellow artist Greg working on a t-shirt design

Greg talks to a girl at a party telling her that Michael designed the t-shirt she is wearing

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Michael is a commercial artist working with fellow artist Greg in a t shirt factory making the artwork screen printed onto shirts. Michael feels unfulfilled in his job making joke t-shirts with slogans such as "Tennis Players Do It With Fuzzy Balls" emblazoned on them and a boss who tortures him by playing loud motivational recordings into his art studio.

One of the popular designs is a t-shirt with Foxy Lady written onto it at the beginning of the film we see a masked man attack a woman wearing the foxy lady t-shirt. As the film progresses we learn the significance of this and why Michael is currently in a psychiatric ward.