I don't usually do product endorsements, but when it comes to art toys I can't help singing the praises of things I like. Have you seen the Mystic Art "zen board"? It's an old fashioned tavoletta (look that up in Ernst van de Wettering's Rembrandt: Painter at Work). I saw one at the North Carolina Museum of Art's bookstore and it's so beautiful. I didn't buy it (but I might yet). However, using it in the store was captivating.
This kind of thing might not appeal to everyone, but I think there's something fascinating about all the many kinds of erasable tablets -- from the Magic Doodle, to a patch of sand, the classroom chalkboard, or those little flip books with the plastic stylus that we played with as kids.
But the Mystic Art tablet is to these others what a Jaguar is to a Volkswagon.
Bartlett's In the Garden
The Guy
Me
About Me
- Art Writing
- I am a painter and have other sites on the internet where my work can be seen. But I choose to do Art Writer anonymously because it gives me the freedom to address a broad array of topics without affecting the marketing of my own painting. For various reasons we each wear different masks in life. As an artist selling my paintings, I present a certain public face. But I cannot always say the things I truly feel if I am maintaining my own artist identity. Certain kinds of things influence my work, but the role of art in my life is much broader, much more rambling than what I do myself. I can indulge so much more capacious a view of things here under the mask of being unknown.
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