Habitual tendencies
Dear Artist, I’m talking about those automatic mannerisms that interfere with our creativity while at…
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A new angle
Dear Artist, Workshoppers seem to want critiques, and some instructors insist on them. I’ve always…
Think and do
Dear Artist, After making my way through the “Dick and Jane” readers (“See Spot run!”)…
Nobody knows what’s under there
Dear Artist, The other day I was talking to my friend Jack Monk. Jack’s an…
Rare and fair
Dear Artist, After my recent letter about the art market returning to happy times, I…
Mountain rules
Dear Artist, Trudging around in the Bugaboos, I’m thinking how rules are meant to be…
Decisions, decisions
Dear Artist, Choreographer Twyla Tharp’s The Creative Habit describes her morning routine of rising early…
Happy times here again?
Dear Artist, On questions of economics, painters are seldom consulted. Curiously, my inbox has been…
The ’37 Club’
Dear Artist, As occasional workshop givers, my daughter Sara and I find there are a…
The two-easel convention
Dear Artist, Every day we look at jpegs of some readers’ paintings and know that…