How to beat painter’s block
Dear Artist, A lot of stuff has been written about writer’s block, mainly because writers…
Monthly Archives: September, 2009
Dissatisfaction
Dear Artist, Among the emails that came in after my letter about Low Self-Esteem, Ralph…
Artists with low self-esteem
Dear Artist, About ten percent of the general population is supposed to have low self-esteem…
Odd ways to find your muse
Dear Artist, Almost everyone has heard about J.M.W. Turner getting himself strapped to a ship’s…
Li’l Van Go
Dear Artist, In my chronic weakness for mobile painting stations, I bought a panel van.…
The Exploratorium
Dear Artist, There’s a museum in San Francisco where children and adults run wild. Holding…
Can’t be helped?
Dear Artist, Yesterday, Raymond Kowalski of Cleveland, Ohio, wrote, “A woman in my classes refuses…
The Letters
Dear Artist, This fall we’re producing a new book. It’s a fat, biblical-looking tome that…
A methodical pursuit of style
Dear Artist, In 1947, the eclectic French author and theorist Raymond Queneau wrote a small…