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0 The joy of bad art

Dear Artist, Yesterday, just as I was about to sign a painting, a close friend jingled the studio inbox. “My work,” he wrote, “has been truly exciting over the past year. What bothers me is the bad art that I…

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0 The power of three

Dear Artist, Today, in this studio, I’m reminding myself of the power of three. Apart from foreground, middle-ground and background, there are three trees, three color-grounds, three motifs. Four has a tendency to be static, two suggests coupling or perhaps…

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0 Spells

Dear Artist, Yesterday, out of the pouring rain came my friend Joe Blodgett. He was soaked. “You gotta love it,” he said. I put down my brush and poured us some fingers of Glenfiddich. We put up our feet. For…

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0 Protecting your copyright

Dear Artist, A letter from Catherine Jo Morgan of Georgia, USA, has caused ongoing discussion around here and an appeal to authority. She wrote, “You have said that you don’t date your paintings because they stay fresher that way. ‘When…

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0 The horse’s mouth

Dear Artist, Today we’re painting up high, windows all round, view up and down the channel, autumn gold on the distant island’s hills. Ron, Keith, Carole, Richard, Loraine, Donna, Judy, June, Jane, Bob, Ann and me. Subscribers. We’re having a…

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0 Commissioned artwork

Dear Artist, The last letter was a bit about money. This one is, too. The following is part of a letter from an artist to an architect friend: “I asked him for some of the money I need to continue…

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0 Selling your art

Dear Artist, There are two main kinds of artists: Those who want to sell their work and those who do not. In light of all the artists from the former camp who have written lately, I’m addressing this letter to…

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1 Tom Thomson

Dear Artist, Here in Canada we a have national icon. His name is Tom Thomson. For a brief period of six years he painted brilliant paintings of Canada’s north. His images are etched into the fabric of Canada’s culture. Thousands…

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0 An artist’s slide bank

Dear Artist, Several artists have inquired recently about the uses and abuses of an artist’s slide bank. As many of us keep some sort of visual archive, I thought we might take a look. For me the slide bank is…

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0 Synesthesia

Dear Artist, In our home we have a giant medical encyclopedia. It’s fun because any time I pick it up there’s something for me on practically every page. Actually, it has one thing wrong — it needs to be loose-leaf.…

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