Butterfly
Dear Artist, When Eric Carle was a little boy, his father would walk with him…
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Signing your life away
Dear Artist, Yesterday, Chris Bingle of Stroud in Gloucestershire, UK, asked about signing paintings. She…
An aesthetic attitude
Dear Artist, Ellen Winner, Professor Emerita of Psychology at Boston College and Senior Research Associate…
Hyper-perfectionism
Dear Artist, Work can sit on the easel for months, even years. The afflicted artist…
Satisfactory strokes
Dear Artist, Caroline Morse, from Southern California, wrote, “I often find I am not satisfied…
The case for visualization
Dear Artist, Yesterday, Stephanie Quinn of Dallas, Texas wrote, “Athletes are taught to visualize winning…
Create or die
Dear Artist, Researchers at the University of Granada in Spain and the Washington University School…
The unschooling of art
Dear Artist, “Unschooling” is an educational philosophy and practice that allows children to learn through…
How to be original
Dear Artist, “Because nearly all good ideas are based on others that came before them,…
Voluntary graduation
Dear Artist, Yesterday Leslie Kimball of Tehachapi, CA wrote, “I paint with a bunch of…