Gift horse
Dear Artist, When Mark Landis was a boy, his well-to-do parents would take him travelling…
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Thoughts left visible
Dear Artist, The Van Gogh Museum in Amsterdam has an unfinished work by Lawrence Alma-Tadema:…
Your sacred hour
Dear Artist, Mark Twain wrote, “Eat a live frog first thing in the morning and…
Reality check
Dear Artist, The reality is that many creative people do not have the freedom to…
Game time
Dear Artist, An emerging New York artist I know paints quality abstracts. Over the last…
Painting a portrait
Dear Artist, “Every time I paint a portrait I lose a friend,” said John Singer…
The pro-creative ritual
Dear Artist, In 1726, at the age of 20, Benjamin Franklin outlined in detail a…
An artist’s mind
Dear Artist, My friend Joe Blodgett said, “There’s two ways to walk this path –…
Art and marriage
Dear Artist, Today would have been my parents’ 50th wedding anniversary. They married in a…
The canary in the mine
Dear Artist, Artists of the past often suffered poor physical and mental health due to…