The importance of having artistic community.

It is awesome to be part of such the thriving DIY artistic community on deviantART.com . There are many a websites that showcases the portfolios of artists but only a few that really foster an arena for prolific dialog about the arts. The community is vast in levels of talent and amazingly rich with support and critique. Rather that just showcasing the best of the best, it is truly a venue or artist who show up with the best of PRACTICE.  Over 22 million members globally use the site in every medium and theme I can think of.  I have seen the world through a lot of lenses, most of with are jaded by intentions that are non-artistic and super insular.  It is refreshing for me to see super talented famous artists and really stoked junior high artists chatting in the same forum groups,  helping each other in critique. I am very inspired to be a part of it.

I was honored that one of my piece was chosen to be a 'Daily Deviation,' and in the 12 hours that it has been on the list, thousands of members of the community have viewed the piece and hundreds of artists have given me feedback. I do not know any of these people, but I can now have an artistic dialog with them. Pretty amazing to have that much buzz, and exciting to know the arts are viral. Maybe the economy is tanking, but the creative spark is alive and well.

The piece that was chosen is called ' Get Some Air.' A fun digital painting of a chillin goldfish. (are they goldfish if they are not gold?)