Dear Artist, Last Sunday, Dr. Jack Dalhousie dropped by my studio. He’s a guy who collects art from coast to coast and stashes it in his pad in Toronto. “Over two hundred now,” he said. “Dealers love me. I’m a…
Dear Artist, Yesterday, Richard Brady of Maynard, Massachusetts wrote, “I’ve begun a working relationship with a friend. He’s taken the initiative to introduce my paintings to potential clients. I’ve given a 10% finder’s fee in the past to a person…
Dear Artist, I’ve spent a lifetime trying to figure out why some artists just go ahead and do things and thrive, while others don’t get much done and languish. I noticed that thriving in our game often has more to…
Dear Artist, Odysseus, in Homer’s Odyssey, is ten years getting back to Ithaca from the Trojan Wars. All kinds of crap and corruption take place while he’s gone, including interference with his wife Penelope. Our odysseys need not be so…
Dear Artist, Yesterday, Renate M. Reuter, founder, president and executive director of the Portrait and Figure Painters Society of SW Florida, Inc. wrote, “What is the future of oil paintings? Are they going out of style? Are they going to…
Dear Artist, Remember those sad children’s faces with big, misty eyes? If you don’t, you weren’t around in the late fifties when they were hung on a lot of livingroom walls. Nowadays, this sort of painting has been sent to…
Dear Artist, After my last letter where I advocated the outsourcing of art sales to galleries, many readers legitimately asked how to do just that. Vast changes are currently taking place in both economics and demographics. When I first started…
Dear Artist, In one of his recent books, the American author A.J. Jacobs reported he had successfully outsourced his life. In the name of improving personal efficiency, he left everything odious to an outfit in India — they answered his…
Dear Artist, Over the past while I’ve had an abundance of emails from artists who are fighting cancer, stroke, stress, macular degeneration, concussion, body-destroying motor accidents and other trauma. Some are just reporting in, others are announcing they are throwing…