Cheap advice
Dear Artist, Last Sunday I gave an artist’s talk. There was standing room only in…
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Staying true
Dear Artist, Yesterday, Cherie Hanson of Kelowna, B.C., Canada, wrote, “My work explores several directions at…
Field notes on play
Dear Artist, There was no use in arguing with the woman. She had asked me…
A painting’s progress
Dear Artist, A Song for the Seventies was a 24 x 30 inch oil on…
Gallery flow
Dear Artist, As touched on in the clickback before last, Small Stuff — how people…
The knowledge
Dear Artist, If you were a brain surgeon or a jet pilot, you might not…
Small stuff
Dear Artist, Last Thursday night I opened an exhibition in our local Museum. It’s a…
Letters to an artist
Dear Artist, In 1903, the poet Rainer Maria Rilke responded by letter to a young…
Cleaning paint brushes
Dear Artist, In my last letter Pre-Raphaelite painter John Collier recommended cleaning brushes in the palm…
Palette pointers
Dear Artist, One of the problems with talking about palettes is that those little blobs…