

SCAM ALERT
All artists beware of this scam. These are fake buyers who are working an old scam.
Here’s how the scam works:


QUIT YOUR DAY JOB, BECOME AN ARTIST
QUIT YOUR DAY JOB, BECOME AN ARTIST. If you like making art you might want to progress from hobby artist to professional artist. But you...


Spring Fair Most Popular Artists
Exactly a year ago I wrote a blog-post about the Spring Fair. This is where and when the professional art, design, furnishing, and gift...


Watching paint dry.
Watching paint dry. Last Saturday I gave a demonstration of my acrylic painting technique in the huge, new, Great Art, artists supply shop i


Looking Forward to 2017 and Skylarks Singing
Skylarks singing, dewdrops on cobwebs, and flowers. January the first 2017. I am getting dozens of emails, Facebook posts, Twitter, and...


How to sell your art.
How to sell your art. This is the biggie. The big question that successful artists get asked all the time. And of course the answer is...


Many years later...
Many years later… These two photographs show my daughter and myself [Shyama Ruffell and Colin Ruffell] on a couple of occasions while...


HOW TO THRIVE AS AN ARTIST
Starve, strive, survive, then thrive. That is the basic formula for an artist to go from the starving artist phase to the thriving artist...


How to get into galleries.
A lot of artists want to exhibit in commercial art galleries. They see it as recognition of their quality as an artist, and they expect that


Ams and Pros in the Art Business
Here is another interesting reminder of something that I wrote several years ago for 'Art Business Today' magazine. It was published in...