When the Studio Goes Sideways: A Field Guide for Working Painters
Language: English
Published by Fairview & Evergreen, LLC, 2026
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- Title
- When the Studio Goes Sideways: A Field Guide for Working Painters
- Author
- Puttrich, Stephen
- Publisher
- Fairview & Evergreen, LLC
- Publication year
- 2026
- Condition
- New
- Binding
- Soft cover
- Language
- English
- ISBN 13
- 9798995598510
Every working painter has had the same morning. You walk into the studio ready to paint. The coffee is made. The panel is waiting. And something is wrong. You cannot name it. The room looks fine. The tools are in their places. But something inside the room is saying no, and within twenty minutes you are standing there feeling like a fraud who has forgotten how to do the thing you have done a thousand times before.
This book is for that morning.
When the Studio Goes Sideways is a field guide for working painters who have hit the wall. Not a theory book. Not a motivation book. A practical, plainspoken guide to diagnosing what went wrong and fixing it before the day is over.
The book is built on three diagnostic questions every painter can ask when the work stalls:
What is wrong with the room?
What is wrong with the routine?
What is wrong with me today?
Eight chapters move from the outside in, covering the physical studio, the daily routine, the noisy mind, the failing canvas, the interrupted life, the dried-up source, medium-specific special cases, and a final chapter of checklists designed to be torn out and taped to the wall. Each chapter offers ten or more practical approaches, exercises, pull quotes worth underlining, and questions to sit with. Take what helps. Leave the rest. Come back next year.
Written by Steve Puttrich, a working fine artist and painting instructor with more than four decades of experience in oil, watercolor, and plein air painting. Steve teaches at the Palette and Chisel Academy of Fine Arts, Morton Arboretum, and Chicago Botanic Garden, and is faculty at PACE (Plein Air Convention and Expo). He trained at the American Academy of Art in Chicago and is the inventor of the Fairview Finder™ and the creator of Wonder Walking™. His core teaching framework is simple: Design gives clarity. Story gives meaning. Freshness gives life.
This is Book One of the Studio Reset™ Series. It is meant to be read once straight through, then kept within reach and opened whenever the studio goes sideways again.
Which it will.
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