An Artist's Guide to Living by Your Brush Alone by Edna Wagner Piersol

By Edna Wagner Piersol

Cincinnati: North gentle Publishers, 1983. tremendous exchange paperback, looks unread, no markings, writer

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Now, with your eyes open, place a ballpoint pen (the kind with a long barrel for easy handling) in an advantageous design spot inside one of the rectangles. This means you will not place your pen point in the exact center of the rectangle nor in the center of any of the quadrants of the rectangle. All awkward for good designs. A good spot to place your pen is just a little to the right of the center of the rectangle and just below or above an imaginary line dividing the rectangle in half. Start here the first time.

Where is the originality? Doesn't creativity count at all? Certainly it does. You can be as creative with someone else's ideas as you are with your own, perhaps even swatch of her 45 more so. The challenge is greater. Michelangelo almost always worked with someone else's desires in mind. Where was his originality? Don't I wish I had as much as he had? So, after my commission call, I went to work. That dear woman had trusted me enough to commission me over the phone, certain that I could produce a painting that would please both of us.

Squirrels chatter. Boats pass on the river; a truck rumbles along the road. Just remove all the unwanted interruptions you can. For instance, the telephone: what a jarring shock in the middle of a brush stroke! You can control that evil ring with an answering service. You can't work without one. In my area, a good twenty-four-hour service, with a real person's voice on the end of it, costs about the same amount per month as I get for one good pen-and-ink sketch. You can afford that. Just sell one sketch a month that is earmarked to pay for If is at the service.

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