Sorry to have taken a few days to get back to you but the holidays are driving me nuts! I am very busy and the holidays 
make it all the more difficult to get things accomplished.

     The magazine is moving ahead at full speed. The content is coming in and I am busy converting it into magazine format. 
I look forward to your input and feel very fortunate to have your involvment.

     Hoping to hear from you soon, I remain

Roger Elliott
Artist World Magazine
elliot@eurekanet.com

Don Jusko,

I wanted to tell you what a surprise it was to find that Doerner's book had been reprinted, and that I liked your review.  I read it a couple of years ago -- a dusty copy I don't think anyone had taken off the shelves at RMIT University in Melbourne for about twenty years. It was a revelation. As you say: the most important artist's manual.

I was sent to the book by Barrie Reid, who knew many of the painters working in Melbourne in the forties. He told me that the book was
widely discussed and studied by young artists then.

Regards--
Stephen J. Williams
 

I have been reading for more than 2 weeks, as I always find something interesting, especially staff about crystals and chemistry. In my free time, I enyoj discovering what dyes, inks of ballpoints, pens, etc consist of by simple home-based paper chromatography  using my little home lab :)

I would like to read information about the colourd dyes used, namely their name, and some chemistry background. I assume they are organic compounds, since  soluble in organic solvents (eg alcohols, carbon terachloride, etc.) This would complete your site to perfection as it will cover also the organic aspect of colours with the already hugely-well prepared and informative inorganic texts.

Hope you could help me, perhaps suggesting a site of such information, or a part of this site which I have missed and not surfed in.

Thanks in advance - Stephen Mifsud from Malta.
teknologik@technologist.com
 

 Dear Mr. Jusko ,
 MEDIUMS  [mediums.htm ]  this showed up on the screen , this morning , and I just
 wanted to say thank you . Thats 10 printed pages of information , -----
from
Khaimraj Seepersad

 Don
         I read your new page with great interest. as a newcomer to the painting 
world, starting to paint at 60. I found it explained clearly and expanded upon 
what we see. I was probably trying to get too great a width on my canvas and
your page will help me tremendously. You must have put quite alot of work 
into designing and presenting the page to make it so lucid.

 Thanks
 Ken.

Hi Don, im really impressed by your work and wide knowledge of different
methods, I would like to email you pics of some of my work so you could give
me your advice. If this is possible please reply to Zach....
DJACID@aol.com,,,,
I really appreciate it, thanx
 

msg=Hi Don,
Fasinated by your collection of web pages and I think your art is inspiring
to a new comer to painting.  Will be coming back to your pages at a later
date as the content is so great it will take some time to digest.The historical 
data on ancient paint techniques was extremely interesting. Loved your 
subjects, looking forward to coming back to your pages.

Pauline Chisholm
chisco@winshop.com.au

Marvelous!
I envy you. Really, I started painting 3 years ago. I love it.
I wish I could paint 12 hours a day.
My friends say I have talent.  Well, they're my friends...no?
I learn a lot with you...many thanks for all those tips and all.
Have a nice day, and go on painting...love »Pierrette

Hi Don, you really deserve a grand medal or some other type of award for
your wonderful site. I check it very frequently. 

I'm getting ready for a two week trip to French Polynesia and though I 
LOVE oils, I decided to use acrylic since I can't figure out a way to travel
with two dozen wet canvasas.  I  try painting with the acrylics and will use 
this as a base for  an undunderpainting with oils when I get back to south 
Florida the end of September however I see you have no difficuly with acrylics.
I wiil be taking transparencies as well.  I've been going through as many 
books as I can to learn about using the medium but it just gets back to 
personal experience with the medium. 

I'll go through your instruction guides again to try to learn more. It looks like 
I should just use acrylics like oil unless you have some guidance for me. 
I really would like some...any other texts to read over?? A few So. 
California artists told me to be sure to bring along Thalo Blue..any mediums,
gloss/matt/retarders etc. I should bring along?
 

Hi Don,
Thank you for the great site. I'm learning a lot from you and I thank
you from the bottom of my heart. I had a question about getting some
desired colors in oil painting by mixing other colors. For example how
do you get copper or chrome or aluminimum or gold? As you know in still 
life those colors are used a lot. Why don't you give a lesson on this
topic? A recipe for mixing colors. Knowing the theory does not always
help. Thank you again for your talent as an artist and teacher. By the
way I love your cursor.
massoud malek

Hi Don, 
your art inspired me becuase i love Hawaii. Your colour is
brilliant and drew me closer to look with more care.

MARCEL (South Africa)

Dear Mr. Jusko,

I'm a full time painter and graphic artist. I reside in a beautiful rural section of North Carolina, with my wife and two daughters. It is a fine place to paint outside, en plein aire, and that is where I do most of my work these days. My first experiences of working out under the skies were liberating for me as an artist, I no longer had to stand around in my studio
and contrive and agonize my paintings. Trial and error and guesswork were replaced by accurate observation and adequate execution. My on location paintings started receiving the best kind of attention, the kind with a check attached. Business is still relatively steady.

I went on-line this morning to find what I could about on location painting techniques. Fortunately, I discovered your enormously generous web site. I spent a good part of the day reading the course sections and taking notes and then I began to give your paintings a serious look. They have that indescribable, luminous and timeless quality that spills out of a great painting. The quality emanating from your paintings, transmits well over the internet.

I enjoyed seeing your work and I learned so much from your site that I feel that I owe you a dept of gratitude.
I will definitely spread the word about what must be the KING of the artist's websites!
Thank you so very much.

Sincerely,

George Buchanan
www.georgebuchanan.com

Hi friends (most of whom i haven't written for too long).

As you might remember, i was and still am fascinated with color theory, and
the interaction of light and pigment.  I found this site by Donald Jusko,
who has web-published his new adjusted color wheel and color and painting
experiences on an exhaustive and entertaining website.

The basic start page is: index2.htm
and the most exciting stuff is on (but do check the whole site):
1color.htm

For the lighting people amongst you, the colors-from-crystals segment, and
the adjustments to the amber and cyan spectra are helpful, even
enlightening;  for the pigment people,  the history of painters and
colortheories is wonderful; for the rest of you, Don's painting themselves
are simply breathtaking.  My only warning is that the pages are quite large,
i promise, it's worth the down-loading wait.

Always the best, John