How’s your myelin?
Dear Artist, During the past ten years we’ve probably learned more about the workings of…
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Letter to the Student of Painting
Dear Artist, Painter Charles Philip Brooks runs a teaching studio in North Carolina. He focuses…
Fun with retreads
Dear Artist, The other day Verna Marie Campbell of Mission, Kansas, wrote, “Say you have…
Creativity and Fundamentalism
Dear Artist, My recent mention of “Can fundamentalists be creative?” had readers scurrying to the…
Birth notice
Dear Artist, Some recent items in my inbox: “I’ve been busy this past month and…
Curiouser and curiouser
Dear Artist, This morning I was on the phone with a painter I’d Googled. He…
Male Answer Syndrome
Dear Artist, “Male Answer Syndrome” (MAS) is the tendency among men to give answers to…
The plight of perfectionists
Dear Artist, Recently I’ve been looking into the business of perfectionism among painters. It seems…
Art and the charitable soul
Dear Artist, Yesterday, Roberta Henry of La Paz, Mexico wrote about an unusual charitable event.…
A trip of a lifetime
Dear Artist, This coming September we’re planning a unique painting trip: Three days high in…