I have learned this morning that Autumn's Radiance was featured in "Fantastic Art with Under 30 Favs"! I'm super psyched! Here's the link: [link]

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There are two main reasons I have been absent from here for so looong:
1) I wanted to spend some time really working on my skills and honing my technique. I thought it best to take a leave of absence from posting work while I did this.
2) We've moved! We are now back in our home state and all the things associated with moving made art take a major back seat. We've been back going on a year now and I'm pleased to say everything is going very well. I now have a HUGE studio space and I no longer need to break things down when I'm done! The area is upstairs with it's own A/C zone and everything.

Just uplodaded 3 new things. Hopefully someone still watches me so maybe these will actually get seen. I know I've been quiet for a LOOONG time but I've been working a lot and improving vastly I think. So..enjoy and let me know what you think.

Cheers

and I am still painting.....

Hey all

Well, I've now been on dA for 1 year and I have just over 600 page views. Not a whole lot but I don't really do much in the way of self promotion. A LOT has changed for me this past year. I began using pastels. I've dabbled a bit in acrylics and found I don't like them one bit. The use of pastels has been the single greatest thing in my artistic career. They've forced me to realize that a little is often better than a lot. In this I mean that I used to try to achieve a level of detail that was not in keeping with my personality and pastels helped me unlock how to create enough detail using color depth without overworking an area. In this regard, my whole philosophical approach to painting has changed and I think the results are MUCH improved. While the number of pieces I've produced has dropped from the previous year, the ones I have produced are of sufficiently increased quality that I don't need to feel badly. I still have a lot of work to do and so many aspects to improve upon that it's scary but at least I can look back and see where I came from and realize making something that grabs people and speaks to them is not completely out of my reach someday.

I'm about ready to launch a website for marketing my sports art. It's basically ready, I'm just waiting. Not sure what for... I suppose I'll have it hosted on Tripod for now since I don't want to spend anything for the URL.

What can you look forward to from me in the coming year? Well, probably an increase in the number of landscapes which is really my roots in art. I'll definitely still put out plenty of sports themes. I've also started writing and I may decide to use dA as a sounding board. I imagine I'll still be a rather manic contributor, going months without logging in and then spending a few weeks checking in several times a day...that's just me

Best of luck to everyone in 07!