A parent’s voice
Dear Artist, An artist who wishes anonymity asks, “What of artists who get hooked on…
Yearly Archives: 2014
What’s in your tool kit?
Dear Artist, Jim the plumber — a man with a high profession by any standards…
Notes from the horizontal position
Dear Artist, After several weeks working at the Badg-easel I feel I’m a bit of…
“The queen of colours”
Dear Artist, Renoir declared, “I’ve been forty years discovering that the queen of all colours…
The power of red
Dear Artist, Cochineal is a red dyestuff extracted from the blood of a beetle parasite…
The story of yellow
Dear Artist, Traditionally, yellow has come from five main sources–mango, gamboge, orpiment, ochre and saffron.…
Am I blue?
Dear Artist, The original Ultramarine blue was made from the semi-precious stone lapis lazuli. Processes…
What are you leaving out?
Dear Artist, I’m laptopping you from bed in Chelsea, New York City. It’s minus 14,…
Horizontal painting
Dear Artist, A lot of us around here are known as Badgers. For example, my…
The wisdom of no escape
Dear Artist, During a bumpy period a few years ago in New York, I had…