Clear Seeing Place
Studio Visits

This is a profound resource for any artist, especially painters. Rutenberg is down to earth but a gifted writer who cites many different artists and inspirations throughout the book. He writes of nature in vivid pictures, and his brightly abstracted landscape paintings mimic this. He gives practical......more

Art will save the world!......more

My 2019 review: Passionate, intimate, honest, irreverent. Since I’m not a professional artist and will never have shows or have to deal with gallery owners, some parts of this book were more interesting to me than others. I especially liked the parts about technique. However, there’s something here f......more

An amazing book. Every page has something on it I want to or have written down in my journal. I am a visual artist and find the authors insights astounding. Its VERY difficult to find painters explaining in print, their experience of the world and how it inspires their work, and I am so thirsty for i......more

I love this book. But then I also love Brian Rutenberg's online studio visits and this book may be the transcripts of those. He is accomplished, funny,hard-working, funny, talented, funny, wise, funny and deadly serious about what it takes to be a painter. He tells a lot about his own life and caree......more