The Painters Keys

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Your highly creative year

Dear Artist, Ten years ago, I was scrapping along in New York City, showing my paintings and writing and recording in two bands, one of which was in

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Dear Artist, On Sunday Elaine Caulton wrote, “I have tried to find out what the ramifications would be if I chose to paint under a ‘nom de

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Dear Artist, Psychologist Mihály Csíkszentmihályi found that certain types of people are better than others at achieving and staying in flow. Flow

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Dear Artist, Every so often someone lets me know that times are bad for artists. I’ve been receiving this message for years. The carriers of the

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Dear Artist, This morning I received another invitation to list my work on a high end home furnishings, art and decor selling platform. The email

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Dear Artist, Among the more valuable skills is the ability to render forms. To get them right painters of other times laboured over spheres, cones

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Dear Artist, In the Spring when I was 12, I accompanied my father on a trip to Brittany, to find a house our family could rent for the summer. In

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Dear Artist, Recent studies of teenagers’ use of cellphones and other electronic devices have revealed some interesting results. Apparently, if you

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Dear Artist, I recently found myself at a gathering of women, all new to me; mostly artists, plus an architect, a curator, a language specialist. The

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Dear Artist, Last week Molly VanZant of Lexington, Kentucky wrote, “I’m an artist at the beginning of my journey toward a well-made watercolour.

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Dear Artist, Professor of Educational Psychology at University of Connecticut, James C. Kaufman, recently offered some advice on raising creative

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Dear Artist, Today it’s raining in Chadds Ford, PA. Big drops fall from the ancient sycamores. Off in foggy Brandywine Valley, the witch hazel and

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Dear Artist, A subscriber wrote, “How do I progress from the work I am currently doing? I feel like I’ve been working on the same few problems

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Dear Artist, All my life I’ve been trying to figure out ways to improve my painting. That includes study of the work of those I consider masters,

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Dear Artist, When I left California for Vancouver in May, I had a solo show scheduled to open in the Fall and made a plan to work on it at my Mum’s