No. 13: TO FREEDOM CONDEMNED. There was always too much choice.

No.12: IN PURSUIT OF PAINTERLY HEROISM. To counter his feelings of insufficiency, he undertook a study of the Heroic in Art.

No.11: NARCISSISM. The artist-as-Narcissus takes a long look into a pool of his own pigment and falls in love with all of his future paintings.

No. 10: Problem after Problem. It got so that, day after day, he was simply leaping from one problem to another.

No. 9: The Wasp's Nest. Last week he set out to paint objects in nature. His first subject was a wasp's nest which, in the three days of painting he devoted to it, grew as large as a dirigible.