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I do custom art at a reasonable price! I can provide PDF files through E-Mail so you get the best quality of your piece. I can do business logos, avatars, pets, etc. I am able to do more than one person per drawing, it'll just cost more. I do anywhere from lewd to completely covered up. My "processing" times always depend on your piece and my at home life as well, but it is typically around 4 days to a week. The more complicated the piece, the longer it will take, keep that in mind please. Below are some of my best pieces of avatars and such. Message me in-world to discuss prices and what you'd like done! In World name: Softiie https://flic.kr/s/aHsmXdzXFP

(Photo courtesy of Juel Resistance) This week’s featured artist is Juel Resistance (you may know her as Suzen Juel), whose creative output consists of soulful music as well as dreamy visual art. Please visit her Spotify and this awesome RL video of her playing music. We hope you check out her calendar to catch her live inword! She posts some amazing photos in a variety of styles on Flickr, and more information can be found on her website. If you’d like to experience some of her artwork inworld, head on over to Altered. Q: When and how did you hear about Second Life? A: I was playing an online game with a friend called The Sims Online. He told me to check out Second Life, so I did. I created Juel Edison and explored the vast spaces and just couldn't figure out what to make of it. While I was exploring I met another friend that I kept in touch with and eventually I just lost interest. In 2005 my SL friend said, “JUEL, COME BACK, there is live music in SL now!” I told him he was full of s*** haaa, and I came back as… well, me. Q: What instruments do you play, and how did you first become interested in music? A: I had a thing for the organ at my grandma's house when I was about 4ish. It had all those fun bossa nova, samba, cymbals sounds, so I'd putz around on it, playing what I would hear on the radio. Mom would sometimes play it with me, she had taken lessons when she was young. I lost interest… at about 13 I found a guitar in my grandparents’ attic, a tiny one. I ran downstairs: “PAPA!” He smiled and said, “I made that the year you were born, it's yours… go play it!” I loved that guitar and I was going to learn it… so I got some books and taught myself for a while, eventually taking lessons until my guitar teacher asked me to sing and play “Delta Dawn.” I slowly packed up my little guitar, walked home, and never went back. I was mortified. SING? I'm NOT going to SING in FRONT of YOU! OMG! That was that. I really haven't put it down since. I also have a ukulele that I love, but I don't really play it as much. I dabble around on harmonica and also have my mom's banjo, which I would like to learn as well. Oh, and I whistle, that's important too! Q: The painter Wassily Kandinsky was known to experience synesthesia and expressed hearing music as he painted, associating colors with distinct musical notes. As a visual artist, do you ever feel that your paintings are informed by your music, or vice versa? A: It's interesting that you bring up this question! When I was a preteen or so, I would listen to music, what kid didn't, right? My mom had come into my room and asked what I was doing. So I said without hesitation, "I'm drawing the sounds: this is the bass, this is the drum, this is the guitar," She just said, “Ok… interesting.” I didn't find out until many years later that this is synesthesia. It has had a profound impact on my art and music. I often paint in what I'm seeing or hearing from music with a good bass line, like trip hop. It's full of vibrant imagination to me. My own music doesn't really make me see colors, more shapes...closing my eyes when I perform is like a putting up the big screen theater, haha. Q: While there have been many incredible female Blues and Americana figures, the mainstream image of the "greats" of these genres is predominantly men. Please share some underrated female musicians that you feel we should know about. A: I'm a sucker for female songwriters. Lucinda Williams tells some soulful stories in her lyrics. She's relatable, she gets it. Holly Williams. Mary Gauthier. Rory Block. Beth Hart. They all have serious soul, edge, and guts. Q: A huge obstacle to gender equality in the arts is the notion that many see female/non-binary experiences as only interesting to them, but male experiences as universal. Do you try to make your work universally appealing, or do you aim for a niche audience? A: I do quirky little cartoon drawings called 'inkies.' They can have curly hair or long hair and they always have a shirt on. Someone once asked why they are all female and I said, “Nooo, they aren't, they are gender neutral.” And as I'm grinning, I realized that no one has ever questioned this before in my inkies. As far as music goes, I write what I write and hope someone else finds it relatable, I hope someone feels something. I hope people find a little release, be it funny or sad or any other emotion. I tend not to create things to be universally appealing, it's quite personal and very much a niche audience. Q: What is the most meaningful aspect of the SL music community to you? A: That we are a global community all in one little world called Second Life. We are music and art driven, we support each other with all the unique gifts we have. It's a great community that I fall more and more in love with every time. Thank you, Juel. Keep it up!

I'm a real world artist pursuing the same occupation in my SL. I'm looking for similar persons to chat and talk about what all's going on in these adventures. Exchange Ideas and maybe find a joint project I'd like to chill and chat over a game of chess, checkers or pool. Or do a balloon ride around the area and check things out. I have a art show this August at the United Artist of SL. Would love to share it with someone or someones. http://maps.secondlife.com/secondlife/Karpov/53/51/2801

Heading into the third week of the new gallery and I've changed vendors from BSM to CasperVend. If you have a store or gift card from the gallery, I'll be transferring those cards over as I see them activated. see the note below... I've also been working on new artwork pieces and cutout transparency wall art at the gallery. I've redid the displays at the shop to show them off. Come check it out. VENDOR CHANGE NOTE I've recently had to switch vendor system to CasperVend. I am still monitoring the BSM system for store credit and gift cards activation. When you activate your card, visit my gallery and purchase one of the L$1 Marker boxes. They both are labled “The Beginning & End” in red on the bottom. They're on every panel to mark, the beginning and end of the product listing. They also contain a buch of soda pop. I'll see your credit activation on BSM and will move it to your new account in CasperVend. There is a BSM and CasperVend panel in the main gallery where you can check your credit transfer.

Hello everyone! I am going to open an Art Gallery on Friday/Saturday (Grand Opening + Opening #2 of The Droverson Gallery) to show my own Art. But I would also like to give other artists the opportunity to show their pieces. (I have no idea at what conditions and such but I'm sure we can talk about it.) So, if you're interested, contact me in-world! Greetings from Germany Tanya aka Tanja Droverson

Hello there! I am happy to invite you to the Grand Opening (Friday) and/or Opening #2 (Saturday) of my new Art Gallery called “The Droverson Gallery“! ..::The Droverson Gallery::.. I want to promote my traditional art on SL and I set up my own Gallery to do so! The pictures are hand-drawn by me with pastel sticks on black paper. They feature mostly the actresses Alycia Debnam-Carey and Eliza Taylor in their roles in the TV show "The 100" of Lexa kom Trikru and Clarke Griffin. There are also drawings of animals and a mask for Dia de los Muertos and I am going to expand my range in the future. I also drew some animals with the pencil and I could show you the process of how they were created step by step but I don't want to bore you needlessly which is why I'm only showing the end results. There will also be pictures of Clay Statues I made. I hope you like what you'll see! ~~ Grand Opening ~~ Day: Friday, February 14 Time: 11am SLT - 5pm SLT What: Pastel Sticks on Black Paper Where: The Droverson Gallery ~~ Opening #2 ~~ Day: Saturday, February 15 Time: 11am SLT - 5pm SLT What: Pastel Sticks on Black Paper Drawings with Pencil Clay creations Where: The Droverson Gallery Champagne and good conversations are on offer! There is no need to let me know if you're coming. Just show up and invite your friends! The more the merrier! Enjoy! Yours truly Tanja Droverson aka Tanya P.S. Don't forget to join the Group for Updates and take a Landmark ~~~***~~~ Attached is a little example of what to expect!

We invite you to our modern era show " The Gabriel Davies second Art Gala Modern paintings" done by Gabriel Davies. You'll have the change to encounter Fine art and also Expressionist art styles. The Gala will be held on 1st Novemeber . 5 PM SLT at our venue here :http://maps.secondlife.com/secondlife/Sapphire%20Skies/191/249/57 Be You snacks will be served 😊 We can't wait to have a beautiful afternoon together enjoying art 😊

I am nearing publication of my premiere novel, Rasere's War. I look to self-publish as an eBook via Smashwords and Amazon KDP early next year. One of the steps to self-publishing is creating cover art and I've contracted out to an artist on Fiverr.com. Attached is his first submission. Overall I like it, but I am not sure about the color. The blue looks fine, but would a greenish or yellowish-brown tint be more eye-catching in a virtual bookstore?