Your social influence
Dear Artist, Recent studies of young people in the act of choosing music have shed…
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Getting your mojo back
Dear Artist, Yesterday, Doug Swinton wrote, “It seems lately I have lost my will to…
Creative kids
Dear Artist, In the art of parenting we all begin as amateurs. By the time…
A parent’s voice
Dear Artist, An artist who wishes anonymity asks, “What of artists who get hooked on…
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…