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silverflameart2014-12-01 11:28 am
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Welcome to the New Dreamwidth Home of SilverFlame Art!
Hello to all you lovely people! Amyla here. This is the Dreamwidth mirror to the LiveJournal SilverFlame Art community. Some of you may recognize me from a few years ago, when I ran a crowdfunding blog on LiveJournal under the title of shadows_gallery.
And then life happened. Needing money, I moved for a non-creative job to a very isolated area with spotty internet connection, so I stopped posting very much. Though the area was fantastically beautiful-- it was near Yosemite National Park, one of the most beautiful places in the country, I feel-- the physically exhausting nature of the job and the remote location made it very difficult to keep working with cyber-based creativity. Then I became quite ill and spent about a month in the hospital, before returning to Texas to recover. Very soon after returning to Texas, I found myself caring full time for a relative with Alzheimer's while dealing with my own continuing health issues. I did my best to keep working with the art, and near the end of last year, I decided to repackage my artistic endeavors under the name SilverFlame Graphics. I built a site that was to be the centralized hub for my crowdfunded projects, which attracted a plethora of spammers but no real traffic, so I took it down again recently.
Things are changing again. The beloved relative suffering from Alzheimer's has recently passed into the next world, and though she will be missed, I am relieved that she no longer bears that burden. I'm still dealing with my own health issues, but I see some hope that they will be taken care of now that some new diagnoses have been made. I've decided it's time to resurrect SilverFlame Graphics. I will probably be re-building a static gallery site soon, but I am going to be using LiveJournal as the central crowdfunding hub, as I feel it is more accessible to users.
I hope to run an exciting and interactive community here, resuming some of my more popular events such as $5 Sketch and Character Art weeklong Events, prize drawings, and voting on which digital painting projects I should next undertake. I am also thinking on adding in some new events, such as a Fic Contest with winners receiving custom illustrations based on their stories. I will also be creating finished digital paintings funded by a crowdfunding pool. I'll be mirroring SilverFlame Art between Dreamwidth and Livejournal, and I've also opened a Wordpress account which may eventually become the centralized hub of SilverFlame Art, depending on the traffic.
Anyway, do stay tuned for more! I will be creating a schedule and event list very soon.
And then life happened. Needing money, I moved for a non-creative job to a very isolated area with spotty internet connection, so I stopped posting very much. Though the area was fantastically beautiful-- it was near Yosemite National Park, one of the most beautiful places in the country, I feel-- the physically exhausting nature of the job and the remote location made it very difficult to keep working with cyber-based creativity. Then I became quite ill and spent about a month in the hospital, before returning to Texas to recover. Very soon after returning to Texas, I found myself caring full time for a relative with Alzheimer's while dealing with my own continuing health issues. I did my best to keep working with the art, and near the end of last year, I decided to repackage my artistic endeavors under the name SilverFlame Graphics. I built a site that was to be the centralized hub for my crowdfunded projects, which attracted a plethora of spammers but no real traffic, so I took it down again recently.
Things are changing again. The beloved relative suffering from Alzheimer's has recently passed into the next world, and though she will be missed, I am relieved that she no longer bears that burden. I'm still dealing with my own health issues, but I see some hope that they will be taken care of now that some new diagnoses have been made. I've decided it's time to resurrect SilverFlame Graphics. I will probably be re-building a static gallery site soon, but I am going to be using LiveJournal as the central crowdfunding hub, as I feel it is more accessible to users.
I hope to run an exciting and interactive community here, resuming some of my more popular events such as $5 Sketch and Character Art weeklong Events, prize drawings, and voting on which digital painting projects I should next undertake. I am also thinking on adding in some new events, such as a Fic Contest with winners receiving custom illustrations based on their stories. I will also be creating finished digital paintings funded by a crowdfunding pool. I'll be mirroring SilverFlame Art between Dreamwidth and Livejournal, and I've also opened a Wordpress account which may eventually become the centralized hub of SilverFlame Art, depending on the traffic.
Anyway, do stay tuned for more! I will be creating a schedule and event list very soon.
