Just for today
Dear Artist, Just for today I’m going to try to make a better painting. We’re…
Yearly Archives: 2003
Sabbatical
Dear Artist, Yesterday, my friend Chuck Putnins, whose other life is anesthesiology, wrote, “Next year…
Sir Winston Churchill’s art
Dear Artist, In 1915, after the debacle in the Dardanelles, and with an ugly war…
Art picking
Dear Artist, Yesterday, I was an art picker. My fellow pickers were art instructor Victor…
Colour therapy
Dear Artist, Dr. Reuben Amber, in his book Colour Therapy says that proper attention to…
Confidence
Dear Artist, In times of reasonable painting I often ask myself where my confidence comes…
Choose your attitude
Dear Artist, Andrew and Debra Veal started rowing their 23-foot plywood boat across the Atlantic.…
Time to choose?
Dear Artist, Yesterday, my studio computer jingled with a question that concerns a lot of…
Form them up
Dear Artist, In the good old days, students in art schools were provided with simple…
The naive choice
Dear Artist, The last letter was about calculated carelessness — this one’s about calculated naivete.…