Birth notice
Dear Artist, Some recent items in my inbox: “I’ve been busy this past month and…
Monthly Archives: March, 2010
Curiouser and curiouser
Dear Artist, This morning I was on the phone with a painter I’d Googled. He…
Male Answer Syndrome
Dear Artist, “Male Answer Syndrome” (MAS) is the tendency among men to give answers to…
The plight of perfectionists
Dear Artist, Recently I’ve been looking into the business of perfectionism among painters. It seems…
Art and the charitable soul
Dear Artist, Yesterday, Roberta Henry of La Paz, Mexico wrote about an unusual charitable event.…
A trip of a lifetime
Dear Artist, This coming September we’re planning a unique painting trip: Three days high in…
The sweet joy of lists
Dear Artist, Folks are always sending me lists. A born-again list-lover, I admit, I’m a…
Accessing the default mode network
Dear Artist, When you paint you are using two distinct areas of your brain. One…
The outlook for fame
Dear Artist, Andy Warhol figured everyone was now going to get their fifteen minutes of…