Author archive for cr@crabfish.com

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    Five things about London.

    Five things about London.

    London is a big, important, interesting, popular, exciting, place.

    I was born and brought up here as…

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    ANIMALS AS AN ART SUBJECT

    …most of the earliest artworks known to us are paintings of animals.
    I am thinking about cave paintings of course.

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    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,...

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    CANVAS, HARDBOARD, PAPER, or PLANK

    A lot of non-artists don’t have much idea about why artists use such a variety of surfaces for their…

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    How to Sell Your Art

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

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    Colin Ruffell and Shyama Ruffell. Many years later…

    These two photographs show my daughter and myself on a couple of occasions…

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    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…

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    How to get into galleries.

    A lot of artists want to exhibit in commercial art galleries. They see it as recognition of their quality…

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    Just a couple of things..

    Just a couple of things. “Season of mists and mellow fruitfulness…”  Opening line of ‘Ode to Autumn’ by John...

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    Amateurs and professionals in the art business.

    Here is something that I wrote several years ago for ‘Art Business Today’ magazine. It was published in…

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