I believe I've made some real progress since my last post. I'm making art full-time from a shared studio in Langhorne, PA, exhibiting it throughout the greater Philadelphia region, and selling it on-line through my own website, DeborahEater.com. I have a blog there, too: the post linked at the top of this describes how I made a 20"x24" painterly collage and links to a video documenting the process.
Trying to come up with info for my website, I realized that I could legitimately call myself a "regionally acclaimed" artist: I've won awards for my artwork from shows scattered over a 60-mile radius, from Millville, NJ, to Philadelphia, and on up the Delaware River to Erwinna, PA. After being selected to participate in the National Collage Society's 33rd annual juried exhibition this autumn, I can add "nationally recognized" to my accomplishments, too. And thanks to artist trading card swaps that I've made with artists in Canada and Italy, I can even say that my work is "internationally collected." Although I'll admit that the last claim is a bit of a stretch, it all wraps up very nicely.
I had to give up my passion for Travian to accomplish this, alas. It was, however, worth it.
