Irwin Greenberg
Dear Artist, If you’ve ever wondered just how good an artist can be, take a…
Yearly Archives: 2009
Advisory panel
Dear Artist, Yesterday I took part in an advisory panel. This is where a couple…
Painting ‘Uncle Ho’
Dear Artist, Phan Ke An, 85, painted more than 20 portraits of the late Vietnamese…
Where does it come from?
Dear Artist, I’m laptopping you from a shady spot beside a placid lake on the…
Talent
Dear Artist, “What a bitter struggle is waged between talent and fate,” wrote Nguyen Du,…
The price of popularity
Dear Artist, The other day I was visiting a former painter who just happens to…
Economics 101
Dear Artist, A number of artists have been asking about the current economic downturn. More…
Compositional keys
Dear Artist, Composition is the relative positioning of shapes and forms within a picture plane.…
Whistler’s dilemma
Dear Artist, Yesterday, Bob Whistler of Brainerd, Minnesota, wrote, “I’ve been a painter for nine…
Four excellent questions
Dear Artist, Yesterday, David Fitzgerald of Concord, California, asked some excellent questions. Every one of…