Colin Ruffell

Next blog topic on the list? That is actually a list that I set myself ages ago, in January 2016 The list has 449 blog-post topics and...

THE FINE ART TRADE GUILD In a couple of recent blog posts I have mentioned the Fine Art Trade Guild. In particular the Guild standards...

GICLEE IS STILL THE BEST THING SINCE SLICED BREAD... I wrote a blog post about giclee printing a couple of years ago. It claimed that...

OPEN STUDIOS AND OPEN HOUSES This blog-post is about ‘Open Studios’ and ‘Artist’s Open Houses’. Open Studios is an established system...

from ‘Art and Framing Today’ magazine April 2018 Artist and Guild Past Master Colin Ruffell tackles the complex subject of intellectual...

Right Brain Left Brain … creativity v logic The ‘right-brain v left-brain’ idea suggests that we artists thrive by using our creative...

RED, GREEN, BLUE CONES and COLOUR BLINDNESS Colour blindness (originally called ‘daltonism’ after John Dalton) There are different types...

NATURE v NURTURE or BIOLOGICAL DETERMINISM ‘Biological determinism versus cultural determinism’ is a bit of a mouthful. It is the same...

THE COLOUR CIRCLE [or COLOUR WHEEL] I set myself to write about the subject ‘The Colour Circle’ a long time ago. That is because I am an...

The Genghis Khan Principle… The ‘Genghis Khan Principle’ as it applies to self-employed one-man professional artists is the same as it is...