Category Archives: teaching
How to paint, in five easy steps
Old love
Manna from heaven
Wherever we go, that’s where the party’s at
Frog weather
No, I can’t teach French
My NYU professor pal and I had a cheerful row about a non-French-speaker who is teaching French at Houston Independent School District’s Energy Institute High School. She says that a good teacher should be able to teach anything. I don’t believe it. Looking convincing is not the same as conveying knowledge. Art, music and language […]
Scaling up a painting
Day off
I’m not in Rochester to paint but to sell a house. Still, when the opportunity presents itself, I can’t resist. Patricia McDermond is the current chair of New York Plein Air Painters (NYPAP). She got a message from a Rochester-based painter asking if there was a chapter in Rochester. That’s embarrassing, because it’s where I […]
Yes, it is who you know
The Clothesline Arts Festival in Rochester is nearly sixty years old and had 400 artists participating this year. I did it for many years, and my heart always goes out to my artist pals who are still doing the slog—setting up, charming customers, and then tearing down. The first one, in 1957, was held in […]