Dear Artist, Early this morning, Nancy Bradford of Scottsdale, Arizona wrote, “I have many old oils-on-canvas that I would like to paint over and use again. Can I use gesso to do this? If I plan to sell a painting…
Dear Artist, Silversmith Bob Gould and painter Melanie Peter wrote yesterday, “We have the luxury of designing a shop-studio from scratch. The plan is for a two-story rectangle approximately 18 x 24 feet. The upstairs painting studio is for individual…
Dear Artist, Artists write to say that they can do it one day and not the next. Simple as the problem may sound, it has always been a great curiosity to me. Some time ago I invented a method called…
Dear Artist, It’s the weekend of the Armory Show and Scope. “New York is home to more collectors, galleries, critics and artists than any other city in the world,” says the bumf. There are 175 galleries represented at the Armory,…
Dear Artist, Yesterday, Doug Gibson wrote, “I’m graduating shortly with a BFA — major in painting. The university is strong on conceptual and weak on technique. I got a lot of academics, students and profs mad at me because I…
Dear Artist, In 1926, a young man by the name of Al Hirschfeld sketched a caricature of an actor on a theatre program while attending a New York performance. A friend convinced him to copy it onto a clean sheet…
Dear Artist, Eight years ago, a group of parents spearheaded a movement to add a fine arts curriculum to one of our schools. This was to include visual art, drama, dance and musical theatre — at the grade one to…
Dear Artist, Last Sunday afternoon at 1:34 my friend Toni Onley died. After a big bounce his 30-year-old Lake Buccaneer amphibian nosed into the river. He was alone. Maybe it was a heart attack. Maybe he hit a stick. There’ll…