Dear Artist, In case within the confines of your studio — you were wondering about the relevance of art when the world seems to be disintegrating, you needed only to watch a supernova explode before our collective eyes and ears…
Dear Artist, Back in my days of freelance skirmishes on the periphery of the advertising business, I was often confronted with a person known as “Art Director.” Apart from making occasional good suggestions, this individual would change copy, fonts, illustrations…
Dear Artist, I remember after visiting Giverny for the first time in my 20s, reporting back to my Dad that Claude Monet had painted his most innovative paintings in the last stages of life. “Your best work is ahead of…
Dear Artist, Choose a format, medium and subject, and like Claude Monet and his haystacks, get to work at refining your style, technical agility and expression by way of this one, specific route. For Monet, what gave his one-track investigation…
Dear Artist, On a small beach between towering rocks around the corner from Cabo San Lucas in Baja, Mexico, I set up, shaded and alone except for an occasional beach walker and the skimming pelicans. A 20″ x 24″ proceeded,…
Dear Artist, Francesjoy Bradbury wrote, “I am searching for an affordable venue for showing and dispersing my art. I’m wondering how one does that — I mostly gift my work.” Completing the art cycle almost always involves some kind of…
Dear Artist, Yesterday, Edward Vincent of Sydney, Australia wrote, “You often mention ‘contemplating’ a work in progress. I’ve found discussing a painting issue ‘out loud’ in private to be productive. Thoughts alone seem to be much easier to muddle up…
Dear Artist, In this new world, I, like you perhaps, have spent the last few weeks revisiting old baking tins, ornaments, addresses, recipes, music, film, imagery, stories and memories. At the moment, many of us are doing it without our…
Dear Artist, Last night Betty Piderman of Kitsilano, B.C., Canada wrote, “I was wondering about the Monday Night Art Club you mentioned recently. Can anybody join? Is it membership only? Is there a fee? Where is it held? I would…