Support your Local Artist

It has been over four months since my last post... and it seems that everything I set out to do last year has skewed by my new perspective. Reality gave me a good ol' bitch slap, and I'm happy for it because when I complete my previous goals although not right now.

I starting draining my artists' core with grand plans of helping the artist community when I haven't even helped myself. I already contribute in other ways- more one on one coaching with creative minds than gathering them on a cold and lonely forum. I had vested so much energy into it, that my creative talents where also being depleted with it's design. Although I do think that we need more online artist communities, there are already plenty that offer loads of support for developing artists.
I'm near completion of the new website, and over the part couple months, concentrated my creativity on personal projects and have produced so many new pieces. I've been a member of Deviant Art - a massive online community of artists - that have provided me with the support that my forum would have offered.
Online shops and resources, jobs and contests are just a few of the things that they offer. Somehow, I think that my small community of artists' on the forum would better benefit from skills and experience in person, or one on one basis... they activity online was so low it seemed a waste of bandwidth. HAHA let alone the headaches of a n00b trying to use linux coding on a windows platform.
I'm going to stick to what I know for now. Someday I'll open a GREEN gallery or an artists' co-op- that'll be much more suitable to my skill set.