I'm sorry I haven't been very active at all lately - I had to delete lots of journals (I commented on a few, I apologise if I missed anything... I did miss one lovely friend's birthday which I feel like dirt for!)

just haven't really felt like it lately. I hate to even say it but lately I feel like my interest in DA is tailing off. It's a horrible thing to say, I really owe this place a lot. But I'm so tired and busy lately, and I don't get this site sometimes... I dunno, I tire of certain things. I've been lurking, and looking, and that's all I've felt up to lately. I'm this close to becoming one of those people who faves-and-runs, and I always said I never would... I think I owe it to my friends to leave them some kind of feedback on their work. But I just can't keep up anymore!

I noticed probably at the beginning of the year that many of my longstanding friends and artists I looked up to seemed to be backing off DA a bit, and I was upset and felt abandoned at first lol. There used to be a little (actually... quite big) band of equine-ish people here, but most of the original gang have found lives lol. Moved on to bigger things. It's just not the same.

I hope this is just a phase for me, anyway... hehe. I wouldn't want to drop off the face completely. And of course I still do have some great friends here, who know who they are and 's to them... I just feel bad that I can't be here for them like I was at one time!

I guess this is also an advance notification, don't care too much if I go quiet, I'm still here, just not as I used to be. I'm always here for artistic advice etc, if anyone ever feels the need to note me about anything my door is open so to speak! Not to be bigheaded, I do like to help where I can, I just can't always get to everything on my watchlist (or elsewhere...) where I'd probably have something useful to say lol. (would make a change)

I am still arting, but I'm on an oils phase and they are slow going I AM keeping up fairly regularly with my art blog though, check it out if you want to see what I'm working on at any one time... [link] (also if anyone has any hints on oil paints I would love for you to drop in and offer your expertise if you have time)


I do have a little visual update. I recently went to a local point-to-point meet, armed with camera the 30 or so best of the 500+ photos can be found on *moodycam (I haven't finished uploading them yet) with probably more to follow on my flickr. (Any equine artists interested in thoroughbred/hunter shots, both action and headshot, for reference use just let me know in comment or note and I'll link you to my flickr folder which will contain, in time, the whole set of photos... They are in tack but I did get some very nice leadrope shots too, good for muscle structure ref!)