Dear Artist, If you’ve ever taken a cruise you may be familiar with Park West. Compared to Sothebys and Christies, with about 50 auctions a year between them, Park West holds 300 a week. “We’re the biggest art auctioneers in…
Dear Artist, In the last clickback I included three of my Photoshop efforts. On Friday morning my inbox gagged. Apparently, this is a hot topic. Gary Glenn: “I would rather choose the painting of a monkey over anything generated electronically,…
Dear Artist, My last letter brought in a pile of emails and notes from artists. Janet Badger, for example, wrote, “With computer and scanner I have discovered that it’s possible to completely bypass the artist — from photo to my…
Dear Artist, All through his demonstration Harry Heine keeps saying things like, “This might not work out,” and “I’m not sure about this.” At the same time you have the idea that he knows exactly what he’s doing. Harry’s a…
Dear Artist, If you ever feel guilty about using a projector, consider this — you’re in great company. Johannes Vermeer (1632-1675) was born and lived in Delft, Holland. A picture dealer, he was never able to support himself from his…
Dear Artist, After the electronic shower of your New Year’s resolutions, (and my own resolution to grow my hair this year) I was passing my easel and pausing to note its magnificence. Like many artists who wrote to mention that…
Dear Artist, “Curator,” one of the commonest words in the art vocabulary is hardly mentioned in the art handbooks. According to the Oxford Dictionary it’s derived from the noun ‘curate’ — officially “the assistant to a priest or a clergyman…
Dear Artist, It’s all very confidential of course, but this is the time of year when artists send us their New Year’s resolutions. The idea is that we send them back to you in 365 days. Today, as guaranteed, we…
Dear Artist, Doug MacBean of Toronto, Canada, wrote to ask a simple but profound question: “How does one keep from becoming discouraged with one’s style of painting after a long dry spell with no sales, and no interest from new…
Dear Artist, Dickens’ A Christmas Carol tells of Ebenezer Scrooge, a miserly and miserable penny-pinching malcontent if ever there was one. His is a life of exploitation and intimidation. He’s particularly down on Christmas: “A time for finding yourself a…