by admin-eric | Aug 25, 2023 | Fine Arts America
[If you’d like to meet some of your fellow travelers, please come join my new Eric Maisel Community.] In talking about certain of her desert paintings, Georgia O’Keeffe once remarked, “Slits in nothingness are not very easy to paint.” Indeed. Being on the...
by admin-eric | Aug 17, 2023 | Fine Arts America
What can community mean to a lone wolf? There is the story of a farmer who attended an auction where a painting of his farm was being sold. When the bidding was over and the painting had sold for a hefty price, the farmer exclaimed, “But he could have had the whole...
by admin-eric | Aug 11, 2023 | Fine Arts America
Some books haunt me a little. Giovanni’s Room, James Baldwin’s 1956 novel about a young man in Paris, is one of those. I read it when I was very young, probably not yet a teenager, at a time when I was reading just about anything and everything, from Eric Ambler spy...
by admin-eric | Aug 3, 2023 | Fine Arts America
Get my “Top Challenges of the Visual Artist” webinar FREE when you join the Eric Maisel Community Are you a painter, sculptor, printmaker, pastel artist, watercolor artist, collage artist, graphic designer, computer-assisted artist, weaver, potter, photographer, or...
by admin-eric | Jul 28, 2023 | Fine Arts America
I’m creating a community and one feature of that community is that twice a month we’ll gather (virtually) to do our real work together: writers will write, singer/songwriters will compose, painters will paint, coaches will build their coaching programs,...
by admin-eric | Jul 21, 2023 | Fine Arts America
[To submit a question to be answered, please drop me an email to ericmaisel@hotmail.com] ** Hello, Dr. Maisel: I’m a painter and I live in a small town in Greece, very far from the action. I have it easy here, because I live at home and my parents support me. But I...
