Reality check
Dear Artist, The reality is that many creative people do not have the freedom to…
Yearly Archives: 2014
Game time
Dear Artist, An emerging New York artist I know paints quality abstracts. Over the last…
Painting a portrait
Dear Artist, “Every time I paint a portrait I lose a friend,” said John Singer…
The pro-creative ritual
Dear Artist, In 1726, at the age of 20, Benjamin Franklin outlined in detail a…
An artist’s mind
Dear Artist, My friend Joe Blodgett said, “There’s two ways to walk this path –…
Art and marriage
Dear Artist, Today would have been my parents’ 50th wedding anniversary. They married in a…
The canary in the mine
Dear Artist, Artists of the past often suffered poor physical and mental health due to…
Letters to a young artist
Dear Artist, In Letters to a Young Poet, Rainer Maria Rilke (1875 – 1926) counsels a…
Your true muses
Dear Artist, To work your muses, the first thing you have to do is separate…
Embracing the pivot
Dear Artist, In 1868, mining engineer Fredrik Idestam established a small wood pulp mill on…