
Why you paint
Dear Artist, In his 1946 essay “Why I Write,” English novelist George Orwell identified four…
Dear Artist, In his 1946 essay “Why I Write,” English novelist George Orwell identified four…
Dear Artist, Researchers at the Volen Center for Complex Systems at Brandeis University have taken…
Dear Artist, In an effort to boost creativity, I’ve begun an experiment in which I…
Dear Artist, Canadian novelist Margaret Atwood has invented the LongPen. With custom software and high-speed…
Dear Artist, Jane Appleby of Burnaby, B.C. wrote, “I’m thinking I may like to put…
Dear Artist, Nigel Spivey, in his insightful book How Art Made the World, speculates on…
Dear Artist, According to productivity gurus, there are two types of motivation; extrinsic and intrinsic,…
Dear Artist, This morning I was on the phone with a painter I’d Googled. He…
Dear Artist, At the risk of beating a dead digital horse, I need to revisit…
Dear Artist, I’m laptopping you from Ansel Adams’s room in the beautiful old home of…