Visitors' poll

[Armand Gran]

Thank you very much for your encouraging comment.

[Julie Deane]

Dear "unregistered" -

English may not be your native language, but what you wrote was perfectly understandable. Please consider joining and posting.

[Armand Gran]

Many thanks Julie, I will do

Actually I am registered but haven't been here in ages and have forgotten my password and possibly my email has changed too. I'm not juried however and I believe when the jurying was instituted I had coincidentally stopped coming to the forum because of too many family issues. Then I had to get a job that took me away from painting almost entirely. I'm painting again but mostly landscapes.

The reason I came here today was to look up a topic that I knew was covered here. In the past I'd learned a tremendous amount here because of all the information freely shared and still appreciate that.

The reason I haven't applied to be juried is because I don't see how I would be able to be a full time professional portrait artist. It's very difficult to get any kind of commission - especially a portrait.

Bruce's idea of a paid critique section is great though!

Thanks,
Doreen E. Lepore
www.doreenelepore.com

[Julie Deane]

Doreen -

A few folks may be full-time professionals, but there are a lot of us struggling artists who work at other jobs to pay the bills.

[Chris Saper]

Julie, LOL, some of us FT professionals are struggling to pay bills too!

[Steven Sweeney]

Anyone who wishes to may correct me, but I think there may be as few as one or two professional portrait artists who are regular contributors here and who are also able to make a living at this alone. Some do teach art classes or conduct art workshops, but most are homemakers, involved parents, engineers, accountants, janitors (which includes perhaps the best classical realist in my area), musicians, truants, characters, psychologists, bus drivers, pundits and dilettantes. I could barely manage it myself but for marital assets (though the marriage hasn

[Chris Saper]

I do not wish to correct you;

[Enzie Shahmiri]

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I just happened upon this site and am not sure I really understand what it is yet, but even if I did I am not sure I would ?join.? It seems that the computer gets a hold on me and consumes me and my time. I could spend days and days chasing rabbit trails and looking things up, thus avoiding painting. There are just way too many cool sites and interesting and beneficial things out there in cyberspace. I was looking for some tips on how to paint teeth for a portrait I will be doing when I happened upon this site, and now I have been sidetracked by this poll! I will bookmark this site and probably return at some point, but right now I am commitment-phobic.