Mountain rules
Dear Artist, Trudging around in the Bugaboos, I’m thinking how rules are meant to be…
Monthly Archives: August, 2013
Decisions, decisions
Dear Artist, Choreographer Twyla Tharp’s The Creative Habit describes her morning routine of rising early…
Happy times here again?
Dear Artist, On questions of economics, painters are seldom consulted. Curiously, my inbox has been…
The ’37 Club’
Dear Artist, As occasional workshop givers, my daughter Sara and I find there are a…
The two-easel convention
Dear Artist, Every day we look at jpegs of some readers’ paintings and know that…
Is silence golden?
Dear Artist, After my recent letter about talking on the phone while painting, several emails…
Photographic perfection
Dear Artist, Recently, Ben Novak of Edmonton, Alberta, Canada wrote, “Are traced or projected photos…
Telephonitis
Dear Artist, Among the responses to my recent “Distractions” letter, more than 150 artists named…
The smell of art
Dear Artist, Lori Deal of San Jose, California wrote, “I bought an acrylic painting on…