Painting big
Dear Artist, Yesterday, Lanie Frick of Licking, Missouri wrote, “I’m going big. So far my…
Monthly Archives: September, 2011
Learning to draw again
Dear Artist, When I was a kid I was pretty good at drawing. By the…
The monastic artist
Dear Artist, I’ve never stayed in a monastery, but I’ve visited some, both East and…
Continuous Partial Attention
Dear Artist, The other day I was looking into the eyes of a painter as…
The blind spot
Dear Artist, At a recent soirée of old friends and colleagues there was a politician…
The mystery in art
Dear Artist, Recently, watercolorist Roderik Mayne of Toronto, Ontario wrote, “What do you mean when…
The job of art
Dear Artist, Recent research at the National University of Singapore suggests that feelings of job…
Notes on paucity
Dear Artist, I was putting the title The Red Canoe on the back of a…