Most is my writing. A few are texts from others.
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“Collected Poems”, by Louise Erdrich
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“Doctor Zhivago”: How A Poet Lives And Works
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“Sabi”: The Value I Like To Draw
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Alice Walker’s distraction
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Alienation and the feeling of time
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An Odd Credo (Douglas Wilson)
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Artists make pretty things for friends
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As Close As The Window On Your Left
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As If For The First Time
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Basho: “The one who writes three to five haiku…”
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David Hart: Delight As A Mode Of Knowledge
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Drawing, by John Berger: “how has… [the face]… become the face it is”
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Every sketch is a question about what God sees.
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Helen Vendler, on Gerard M. Hopkins: “…second-order reflection…”
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Hollywood’s artistic problem
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John Singer Sargent, on brushes
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Mary Whyte, on myths of color
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Mary Whyte: “I tear up about one in four paintings…”
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Omit Needless Words?
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On “Simplification” In Drawing
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On Art Supplies
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On drawing…Walter Isaacson on Leonardo’s “sharpness of eye”
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On Talking About Creativity
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Pomegranates in the Tabernacle
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Shape Of Wind In Lilac
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The Pursuit of Happiness Kills Stories
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The Second Moment of the Artist
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The Ugliest Building In Town
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The Zen of Watercolor
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We Know the Garden In the Act Of Drawing It
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Where Have All The Headstones Gone?
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Why write?