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Two books. The outer practice and the inner life.
Sale price: $35
Regular price: $40
Painting problems don’t stay on one side of the easel.
Sometimes the trouble is outside us. The room is disorganized, the routine has disappeared, the materials are fighting back, or the painting has taken a wrong turn.
Sometimes the trouble is inside us. The mind is loud, confidence is thin, focus is scattered, and the desire to control the outcome has begun controlling the artist.
The Studio Reset Pair brings together two practical books for both sides of the working life.
This is the field guide for the days when the work fights you.
It examines six places where studio trouble often begins: the room, the routine, the mind, the canvas, the life, and the source.
Rather than offering vague encouragement, it helps you diagnose what is actually wrong and find something useful to try when you return to the studio tomorrow morning.
It looks at the practice from the outside in.
This book travels in the other direction.
Drawing from the practical wisdom of Marcus Aurelius, it considers what steadiness looks like at the easel: focusing on what you can control, releasing what you cannot, simplifying the work, enduring dry seasons, and tending the creative life without trying to exploit it.
It isn’t about becoming detached from the painting. It is about becoming steady enough to serve it well.
It works from the inside out.
One book helps get the studio ready.
The other helps get you ready.
Together, they address the whole working life of a painter: the shop and the person standing in it.
Read them in either order. Work through them from beginning to end, or keep them near the easel and return to the chapter that meets the problem in front of you.
You don’t need every answer every day.
You need the right question, an honest diagnosis, and one useful next step.
The Studio Reset Pair helps you find it.
Two books. The outer practice and the inner life.
Sale price: $35
Regular price: $40
Painting problems don’t stay on one side of the easel.
Sometimes the trouble is outside us. The room is disorganized, the routine has disappeared, the materials are fighting back, or the painting has taken a wrong turn.
Sometimes the trouble is inside us. The mind is loud, confidence is thin, focus is scattered, and the desire to control the outcome has begun controlling the artist.
The Studio Reset Pair brings together two practical books for both sides of the working life.
This is the field guide for the days when the work fights you.
It examines six places where studio trouble often begins: the room, the routine, the mind, the canvas, the life, and the source.
Rather than offering vague encouragement, it helps you diagnose what is actually wrong and find something useful to try when you return to the studio tomorrow morning.
It looks at the practice from the outside in.
This book travels in the other direction.
Drawing from the practical wisdom of Marcus Aurelius, it considers what steadiness looks like at the easel: focusing on what you can control, releasing what you cannot, simplifying the work, enduring dry seasons, and tending the creative life without trying to exploit it.
It isn’t about becoming detached from the painting. It is about becoming steady enough to serve it well.
It works from the inside out.
One book helps get the studio ready.
The other helps get you ready.
Together, they address the whole working life of a painter: the shop and the person standing in it.
Read them in either order. Work through them from beginning to end, or keep them near the easel and return to the chapter that meets the problem in front of you.
You don’t need every answer every day.
You need the right question, an honest diagnosis, and one useful next step.
The Studio Reset Pair helps you find it.